The Fire Chief of the City may adopt and the City may adopt and promulgate such rules, orders and regulations as may be deemed necessary as safety precautions to guard against the loss of life and property by fire in connection with any of the following:
(a) The storage, transportation and use of combustibles, explosives, flammable liquids and liquefied petroleum gases.
(b) The hazardous condition of existing electrical wiring and equipment apparatus.
(c) The construction, maintenance and regulation of fire escapes.
(d) Construction and maintenance of ingresses, egresses, exits and fire escapes in asylums, hospitals, multiple residence properties, churches, schools, halls, theaters, night clubs and all other public places where persons live or congregate from time to time for any purpose, in order to prevent fire and loss of life by fire in such buildings.
(e) Instructing teachers of public and private schools and educational institutions on conducting at least two fire drills each month and keeping all doors and exits unlocked and unfastened during school hours.
(f) Regulating exits and egresses to school buildings, hotels, theaters and all other public buildings, churches heretofore built, and mercantile establishments and other premises open to the general public and to which the general public has access, and the Fire Chief shall notify.
(g) Require by proper order the demolition or condemnation, repair or removal, of property which for want of repairs, or by reason of age, or dilapidated condition, or for any other cause is especially liable to fire or which may be so situated or constructed so as to endanger other buildings, property or lives.
(h) To issue regulations or orders requiring that any building or structure in this City of two or more stories in height operated, used or occupied as a hotel, apartment house or office building, is to be provided with one or more approved, suitable and substantial metallic fire escapes reaching from the top of the first story to the cornice and placed on the outside of the building, and, to require metallic balconies substantially attached to the building and to the fire escape at every story above the first in such number, size, capacity, design and locations as may be necessary to furnish reasonable means of escape to all persons in the building in case of fire.
(i) To subject to fire inspection as often as may be deemed necessary any building as described in subsection (h) hereof.
(j) To order and require the installation of adequate fire escapes or exits, or both, on any other building or structure, except private single-family dwellings, which by reason of its construction, use, situation or occupancy is liable to cause loss of life in the event of destruction by fire.
(k) Prescribe protection, safeguards, or other means best adapted to render any public building inherently safe from the hazards of fire or the loss of life by fire as required by law, ordinance or lawful orders.
(l) The Chief of department or member on his behalf, while investigating a fire in any dwelling, shall issue to the owner a smoke detector installation order in the absence of the required smoke detectors. Every general rule or regulation promulgated under authority of this section shall be given public notice by posting copies thereof in public places having facilities for the posting of notice and notification by all other reasonable means.
(Ord. 2009-22. Passed 12-7-09.)