(A) It shall be the duty of the officers of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to enforce all laws and ordinances of the city covering the following:
(1) The prevention of fires;
(2) The storage, sale, and use of combustible, flammable, or explosive materials;
(3) The installation and maintenance of automatic and other fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing equipment;
(4) The maintenance and regulation of fire escapes;
(5) The means and adequacy of exit in case of fire from factories, schools, hotels, lodging houses, asylums, hospitals, churches, halls, theaters, amphitheaters, and all other places in which numbers of persons work, live, or congregate from time to time for any purpose;
(6) The investigation of the causes, origins, and circumstances of fires; and
(7) The maintenance of fire cause and loss records.
(B) Such officers shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as are set forth in other sections of this code and as may be conferred and imposed from time to time by law. The Fire Chief may delegate any powers or duties under this chapter to the Fire Marshal.
(C) The Fire Chief shall prepare instructions for the Fire Marshal and the Fire Marshal’s assistants and forms for their use in the reports required by this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 91.48) (Ord. 12-86-6, passed 12-9-1986)