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(A) Generally. The burning of construction debris, scrap wood and building materials, grass, brush, leaves, tree limbs, sticks, branches and other yard debris or natural ground cover, is strictly prohibited and no burning permit will be issued for burning same.
(B) For structures. A burning permit to burn any structure shall be required and may be issued for burning of structures for the purpose of training firefighters and burning of which has been determined by the Fire Chief to comply with all requirements and restrictions for burning. No permit shall be issued to burn any structure between the Friday of Memorial Day weekend through the Monday of Labor Day weekend. The Fire Department will be responsible for burning any structure for which a permit has been issued. Property owners shall be responsible for debris removal once the subject structure has been burned. Debris removal shall take place in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 50, Garbage Service, and other provisions of the town code that may be applicable.
Pursuant to Chapter 911 of the 1989 Session Laws, all rental residential units, including hotel and motel units, shall have an operational automatic smoke detector in each dwelling unit. The fire official shall approve the type and location of all automatic smoke detectors.
(A) No person shall drive a motor vehicle over a fire hose or any other equipment that is being used at a fire at any time, or block a fire-fighting apparatus or any other equipment from its source of supply regardless of its distance from a fire.
(B) No person shall drive a motor vehicle, other than one on official business, to park and leave standing a vehicle within one block of Police or Fire Department vehicles, public or private ambulances, rescue squad emergency vehicles, or other emergency response vehicles, which are engaged in official emergency response to the scene, engaged in the investigation of an accident, or engaged in rendering assistance to victims at the scene.
No driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than 300 feet or drive into or park the vehicle within one block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) AERIAL LUMINARY DEVICES, FLYING SKY LANTERNS, SKY CANDLE, WISH LANTERNS,
and the like, shall be defined as any homemade or manufactured balloon or lantern designed to float in the air, often used to celebrate weddings and other special events, typically constructed of flame-retardant paper or rice paper, that has an open flame, fuel cell or other heating device to heat air as a lifting mechanism thus causing the balloon or lantern to lift into the atmosphere, tethered or untethered, leaving the height and distance it travels to be determined by existing atmospheric conditions. Such devices shall be deemed an aerial luminary device.
(B) All aerial luminary devices shall be deemed a fire hazard.
(C) It shall be unlawful to buy, sell, use, possess, ignite or cause to ignite any such aerial luminary device.
(D) Exception. This section shall not apply to signal flares for emergency use.
(Ord. 13-8, passed 5-13-13) Penalty, see § 10.99
FIRE DEPARTMENT
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