(A) The following types of fires are permitted:
(1) Fires celebrating Twelfth Night Ceremonies;
(2) Fires celebrating school pep rallies;
(3) Fires celebrating scouting activities;
(4) Fires used for recreational and cooking purposes, such as camp fires;
(5) Farm burning, wood products derived from the following farm maintenance operations:
(a) Burning of fence rows and fields or materials derived therefrom;
(b) Burning of natural growth derived from cleaning a drainage ditch; and
(c) Burning of limbs, but only if so diseased or infected as to present a contamination problem.
(6) Waste oil burning as prescribed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources burning or United States Department of the Interior burning, all of described and set forth in 326 I.A.C. 4-1-3(a)(7), (8) and (9);
(7) By variance obtained from the Indiana Air Pollution Control Board Commissioner or the Commissioner's designated agent;
(8) An owner or operator of an air curtain destructor as provided in 326 I.A.C. 4-1-6;
(9) Burning for the purpose of fire training; and
(10) The Mayor may allow emergency burning of refuse consisting of material resulting from a disaster in the area.
(B) Divisions (A)(1) through (6) above shall be subject to the following:
(1) Only wood products shall be burned unless otherwise stated;
(2) Fires shall be attended at all times until completely extinguished;
(3) If the fire creates a nuisance or a fire hazard, the fire shall be immediately extinguished;
(4) All farm and waste oil burning shall occur only during the hours between 7:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time; and (All burning material must be consumed during these hours and the fire extinguished.)
(5) No burning shall be conducted during unfavorable meteorological conditions such as temperature inversions, high winds, air stagnation and the like.
(`90 Code, § 8.08.020) (Ord. 94-13, passed 4-4-1994)