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(a) No person shall knowingly violate any provision of this Fire Prevention Code or any order issued pursuant thereto.
(b) No person shall fail to comply with the fire prevention measures or fire protection activities prescribed in this Fire Prevention Code or fail to comply with the Municipal application and plan submission and processing requirements, including payment of the fees designated therefor.
Whenever the Fire Chief disapproves an application or refuses to grant a permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the provisions of this Fire Prevention Code do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of this Code has been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Fire Chief to an appeal board within thirty days from the date of the decision appealed from. Such board shall consist of the Mayor, as Chairperson, the Council Safety Committee and the Director of Law.
(Ord. 1983-9. Passed 2-16-83.)
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; Ord. 1983-9. Passed 2-16-83.)
(a) No person shall set, kindle, or cause to be set or kindled, any fire which, through his or her negligence, spreads beyond its immediate confines to any structure, field or wood lot.
(ORC 3737.52)
(b) No person shall start or maintain a fire to be used for the preparation of food or for any other purpose in any apartment, condominium or multifamily dwelling, or on or below any building balcony, or within ten feet of any structure housing two or more families.
(c) The owner, manager, operator or person in charge of any apartment, condominium or multifamily dwelling shall make the provisions of this section known to all tenants and no owner, manager, operator or person in charge of any apartment, condominium or multifamily dwelling shall knowingly permit any fire in violation of this section.
(Ord. 92-282. Passed 12-1-92.)
(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 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; Ord. 1983-9. Passed 2-16-83; Ord. 06-32. Passed 2-21-06.)
No person who is not a certified Fire Safety Inspector shall act as such or hold himself or herself out to be such unless, prior to commencing any inspection function, he or she discloses the purpose for which he or she is making such inspection and the fact that he or she is not employed by any state or local fire service or agency and that he or she is not acting in an official capacity for any governmental subdivision or agency.
(ORC 3737.64; Ord. 1983-9. Passed 2-16-83.)
(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; Ord. 1983-9. Passed 2-16-83.)
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