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(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)
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)
(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)
(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.
(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.)
(a) Criminal Penalties.
(ORC 3737.99(B))
(ORC 3737.99(C))
(ORC 3737.99(D))
(ORC 3737.99(E))
(b) Civil Penalties.
(1) Any person who has received a citation for a serious violation of the Ohio Fire Code or any order issued pursuant to it, shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such violation.
(2) Any person who has received a citation for a violation of the Ohio Fire Code or any order issued pursuant to it, and such violation is specifically determined not to be of a serious nature, may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such violation.
(3) Any person who fails to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued within the period permitted for its correction, may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day during which such failure or violation continues.
(4) Any person who violates any of the posting requirements, as prescribed by Section 1501.04(c), shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation.
(5) Due consideration to the appropriateness of the penalty with respect to the gravity of the violation, the good faith of the person being charged, and the history of previous violations shall be given whenever a penalty is assessed under this chapter.
(6) For purposes of this section, a serious violation shall be considered to exist if there is a substantial probability that an occurrence causing death or serious physical harm to persons could result from a condition which exists, or from one or more practices, means, methods, operations or processes which have been adopted or are in use, unless the person did not and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of the violation.
(7) Civil penalties imposed by this chapter shall be paid to the Municipal Chief Fiscal Officer for deposit into the General Revenue Fund. Such penalties may be recovered in a civil action in the name of the Municipality brought in the Court of Common Pleas.
(ORC 3737.51(B) to (H))