1501.05 COMPLIANCE.

   (a)   No person shall knowingly violate any provision of the Ohio Fire Code as adopted herein or any order issued pursuant thereto.

(ORC 3737.51(A))

   (b)    No person shall fail to comply with the fire prevention measures or fire protection activities as prescribed in the Ohio Fire Code, or fail to obtain a permit or license for the various uses or activities as required by such Code, or fail to comply with the Municipal application and plan submission and processing requirements including payment of the fees designated therefor.

1501.06 POSTING ARSON LAWS.

   The owner, operator or lessee of any transient residential building shall post the provisions of Ohio R.C. 2909.02 and 2909.03 in a conspicuous place in each room occupied by guests in such building. The owner, operator or lessee of any nontransient residential building, institution, school or place of assembly shall post the provisions of such sections in conspicuous places upon such premises. No person shall fail to comply with this section.

(ORC 3737.61)

1501.07 SETTING FIRES WHICH SPREAD.

   No person shall set, kindle or cause to be set or kindled any fire, which through his negligence, spreads beyond its immediate confines to any structure, field or wood lot.

(ORC 3737.62)

1501.08 UNFRIENDLY FIRES IN BUILDING; ALARM DUTIES.

   (a)    The owner, operator or lessee, an employee of any owner, operator or lessee, an occupant, and any person in direct control of any building regulated under the Ohio Basic Building Code, upon the discovery of an unfriendly fire, or upon receiving information that there is an unfriendly fire on the premises, shall immediately, and with all reasonable dispatch and diligence, call or otherwise notify the Fire Department concerning the fire, and shall spread an alarm immediately to all occupants of the building.

   (b)    For the purposes of this section, "unfriendly fire" means a fire of a destructive nature as distinguished from a controlled fire intended for a beneficial purpose.

   (c)    No person shall fail to comply with this section.

(ORC 3737.63)

1501.09 DISCLOSURE OF TRUE FIRE SAFETY INSPECTOR STATUS.

   No person who is not a certified Fire Safety Inspector shall act as such or hold himself out to be such, unless prior to commencing any inspection function, he discloses the purpose for which he is making such inspection and the fact that he is not employed by any state or local fire service or agency, and that he is not acting in an official capacity for any governmental subdivision or agency.

(ORC 3737.64)

1501.10 FIRE EQUIPMENT SALE OR USE; CERTIFICATION OF INSTALLERS.

   (a)    No person shall sell, offer for sale, or use any fire protection or fire fighting equipment that does not meet the minimum standards established by the Ohio Fire Marshal in the Ohio Fire Code.

   (b)    Except for public and private mobile fire trucks, no person shall service, test, repair or install for profit any fire protection or fire fighting equipment without a certificate issued by the Ohio Fire Marshal.

(ORC 3737.65)

1501.11 COPIES.

   Copies of Codes as adopted in this chapter are on file with the Council Clerk for inspection by the public, and also on file in the County Law Library, and the Clerk has copies available for distribution to the public at cost.

1501.12 CONFLICT.

   (a)    The Ohio Basic Building Code shall supersede and govern any order, standard, rule or regulation of the Ohio Fire Code or the Division of State Fire Marshal, Department of Commerce in all cases where such orders, standards, rules or regulations are in conflict with the Ohio Basic Building Code.

(OAC 4101:2-1-04(B))

   (b)    In all other cases of conflict between the Ohio Fire Code and any other Municipal ordinance or technical code adopted hereby, the more restrictive provision shall govern.

1501.13 STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING AGENTS, FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES.

   (a)    The limits in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is restricted; the limits in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is restricted; the limits in which new bulk plants for flammable or combustible liquids are restricted, and the limits in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, are as governed by the applicable provisions of the City Zoning Ordinance (Chapters 1101 through 1139, inclusive) of the Codified Ordinances.

   The expansion or extension of any existing facility shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code, as adopted herein, any relative State statutes or regulations promulgated by the State Fire Marshal, and the City Zoning Ordinance and Building Code.

(Ord. 163 (66-67). Passed 12-21-67.)

   (b)    Storage of explosives and blasting caps, storage of flammable liquids in bulk and bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas shall be restricted by location to the "M-2" zoning classification.

(Ord. 44 (70-71). Passed 11-19-70.)