It shall be the duty of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to enforce all laws and ordinances covering the following:
(a) Inspection of potential fire hazards;
(b) Abatement of existing fire hazards;
(c) Investigation of fires;
(d) Control and use of explosives and flammables;
(e) Regulation of the maintenance of fire escapes;
(f) Regulation of the maintenance of automatic and other private fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing equipment;
(g) Control of the means and adequacy of exits in case of fire from factories, schools, hotels, lodging houses, hospitals, churches, halls, theaters and all other places in which numbers of persons work, meet, live or congregate;
(h) Educational fire prevention programs; and
(i) The construction, protection and occupancy features of buildings to minimize danger to life from fire, smoke, fumes or panic.
(Ord. 1114-95. Passed 3-9-95.)