(A) No person shall deface, molest, or injure any property now belonging to or hereafter to be owned by the city.
(B) The bell now in place on the tower located on Block T in the First Addition to the city, or any bell hereafter to be placed in this tower by order of the City Council, shall be known as the fire bell. No person shall turn in a false fire alarm, nor shall any person ring the fire bell except in case of actual fire and when necessary to protect from fire public or private property within the city; provided, however, that the Marshal shall ring the fire bell as a curfew bell as provided by ordinance, and the Fire Chief appointed by the City Council, or the Captain of a fire company working under the supervision of the Fire Chief, may ring the fire bell when necessary to call out a fire company for drill; nor shall anything in this section be considered to interfere with the performance of any duty by the Water Superintendent or other city official of the city.
(C) No person shall molest, injure, tamper with, misplace, or destroy any fire hose, hose carts, ladders, or other property belonging to the city. No person shall use or remove from the house or place where the same is kept any part of the fire apparatus belonging to the city or to any fire company of the city without the consent of the Fire Chief or the Captain of a fire company of the city.
(D) (1) No person shall drive a dray, car, cart, wagon, or other vehicle over an unprotected fire hose.
(2) No person shall willfully fail or refuse to aid in extinguishing a fire or in saving or protecting property exposed to danger when ordered to do so by the Fire Chief or the Captain of a fire company, and in case of fire shall use the fire apparatus of the city only with the consent of, or under the supervision of, the officers.
(E) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section, or any part thereof, may be arrested by the City Marshal, Fire Chief, or the Captain of any fire company of the city, either with or without a writ of arrest, and it shall by the duty of the officers to see that the provisions of this section are strictly enforced.
(Prior Code, § 93.02) (Ord. 101, passed 4-1-1912) Penalty, see § 130.999