1. No person, by reason of careless, willful or wanton conduct in smoking, or in the use of lighters or matches for smoking, shall set fire to any bedding, carpet, curtain, drapes, furniture, household equipment or other goods chattels, or to any building.
2. The term "careless conduct in smoking" as used herein, shall include any of the following acts or omissions: permitting a spark or sparks from a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe to fall upon or into anything flammable; the placing of a lighted smoking article or articles; falling asleep with lighted smoking material of any kind at hand; throwing lighted smoking material out of a window or into an elevator pit or elsewhere than in a proper receptacle therefor; dropping a lighted cigarette or cigar or part thereof into a mail chute in any building; failure to extinguish the fire of a match or any kind of lighter device after the use of same; failure to destroy the lighted part of a cigar or cigarette when disposing of same; failure to destroy the burning smidgen or smidgens of tobacco from a pipe.
3. No person, by reason of careless, negligent, willful or wanton conduct shall permit a child under the age of ten (10) to have access to and / or play with matches or lighters, either by allowing the child to do so or by leaving matches or lighters unattended.
a. A "Notice of Violation" shall be mailed to persons in violation hereof and shall state the date, location and nature of the violation. A "Notice of Violation" is subject to appeal to the Fire Prevention Board of Appeal.
b. Persons in violation of this section will be enrolled in the Face the Facts Program.
(Ord. 183-13. Passed 4-16-13.)