1525.05 CAUSING FIRE THROUGH NEGLIGENCE IN PLACES OF ASSEMBLAGE OR LODGING.

   (a)   No person shall, in any hotel, motel, rooming house, lodging house, apartment house, tenement house, convalescent home, hospital, child care facility or similar place of abode, by any means whatsoever, through carelessness, neglect or negligence, set fire to, or cause the burning of, any bedding, furniture, rug, curtain, drape or other household furnishing or fitting or any other part of the building or premises in such a manner as to endanger the safety of any person or property.

   (b)    Posting of Law. It shall be the duty of the manager, owner or lessee of any motel or hotel to post the provisions of subsection (a) hereof in a conspicuous place in each room occupied by guests in such hotel or motel, and it shall be the duty of the manager, owner or lessee of any rooming house, lodging house, apartment house, tenement house, convalescent home, hospital, child care facility or similar place of abode, to post the provision of subsection (a) hereof in conspicuous places upon such premises.

   (c)    Report of Fire; Spreading Alarm. It shall be the duty of a manager, owner or lessee, and of an employee of any manager, owner or lessee, and of an occupant, and of any person in direct control of rooming houses, apartments, hotels, motels, rest homes, department stores, theaters, auditoriums and other public places of assemblage, upon the discovery of any unfriendly fire, or upon receiving information that there is an unfriendly fire on the premises, immediately, and with all reasonable dispatch and diligence, to call or notify the Fire Division concerning such fire and to spread an alarm immediately to all occupants of the building.

(Ord. 21-249. Passed 12-21-21.)