(A) Development restrictions. No drive, driveway, passage, building or other structure shall be built, constructed or erected nearer to any public fire hydrant than four feet in any direction, except as hereinafter provided.
(1992 Code, § 8.36.010)
(B) Exception; petition; relocation costs.
(1) Any person desiring to construct any driveway, drive, passage, building or other structure nearer to any public fire hydrant than four feet in any direction shall file a petition with the Clerk-Treasurer, which petition shall set out all of the facts, including the present location of the fire hydrant, and the approximate distance it will be necessary to move the fire hydrant. The Clerk-Treasurer shall thereupon report such facts as set out in the petition to the Superintendent of the City Water, and the Superintendent shall immediately submit to the Clerk-Treasurer an estimate of the cost of the removal and relocating of the fire hydrant to a place selected by such Superintendent and approved by the Chief of the Fire Department of the city.
(2) The petitioner shall deposit with the Clerk-Treasurer a sum of money equal to the estimate as submitted, and shall defray all of the expense of the removal and relocating of the public fire hydrant. Any sum not used as expense in removing and relocating the fire hydrants shall be returned to the petitioner by the Clerk-Treasurer. Upon the deposit of such sum of money by the petitioner as hereinbefore required, the Clerk-Treasurer shall grant to the petitioner a permit to make such construction.
(1992 Code, § 8.36.020)
(C) Tampering with fire hydrants prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with, remove, or otherwise molest any public fire hydrant, other than such officials as have by ordinance heretofore enacted been granted authority to do so.
(1992 Code, § 8.36.030) (Ord. 807, passed 7-5-1938)