(A) Hotels: fires in.
(1) In all hotels providing 25 or more beds for occupants, the licensee shall at all times have a person (who may also be the licensee) on duty or on call on the licensed premises, who shall be charged with the duty of immediately notifying the Fire Department of the city when a fire occurs therein. Any person therein who discovers such a fire shall immediately notify the Fire Department or the person on duty or on call therein.
(2) Any person who shall carelessly, recklessly, or negligently set fire to any hotel, rooming house, lodging house, place of public abode or to any bedding, furniture, curtains, drapes, or furnishings therein so as to endanger life or property in any way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3) In a conspicuous place in each room and lobby of any hotel to which this division (A) is applicable, the licensee thereof shall post a plainly printed notice advising as to the provision of divisions (A)(1) and (A)(2) above.
(B) Setting fires in certain buildings.
(1) Any person who shall carelessly, recklessly, or negligently set fire to any hotel providing less than 25 beds, rooming house, lodging house, place of public abode serving transients, two-family dwelling or multiple dwelling as defined in § 153.021 as any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units, or to set fire to any bedding, furniture, curtains, drapes, or household furnishings therein so as to endanger life or property in any way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2) In each public room and in each sleeping room of all such hotels, rooming houses, lodging houses, and places of public abode serving transients, a plainly printed notice stating the provisions of division (B)(1) shall be posted.
(Prior Code, § 92.07) (Ord. D-122, passed 9-8-1947, effective 9-18-1947; Ord. D-295, passed 9-22-1952, effective 10-2-1952; Ord. D-1877, passed 10-9-2000, effective 10-19-2000) Penalty, see § 92.99