(a) Fire Code Violations. No person shall knowingly violate any provision of the Fire Code or any order made pursuant to it.
Statutory reference: ORC 3737.51(A)
(b) Posting Notice of Arson Laws. The owner, operator or lessee of any transient residential building shall post the provisions of ORC 2909.02 and 2909.03 in a conspicuous place in each room occupied by guests in such building. The owner, operator or lessee of any nontransient residential building, institution, school or place of assembly shall post the provisions of such sections in conspicuous places upon such premises. No person shall fail to comply with this section.
Statutory reference: ORC 3737.61
(c) Negligent Burning. No person shall set, kindle, or cause to be set or kindled any fire which, through that person's negligence, spreads beyond its immediate confines to any structure, field or wood lot.
Statutory reference: ORC 3737.62
(d) Alarm of Unfriendly Fire.
(1) The owner, operator or lessee, an employee of any owner, operator or lessee, an occupant, and any person in direct control of any building regulated under the City's Building Code, upon the discovery of an unfriendly fire, or upon receiving information that there is an unfriendly fire on the premises, shall immediately and with all reasonable dispatch and diligence, call or otherwise notify the City's Fire & EMS Division concerning the fire and shall spread an alarm immediately to all occupants of the building.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "unfriendly fire" means a fire of a destructive nature as distinguished from a controlled fire intended for a beneficial purpose.
(3) No person shall fail to comply with this section.
Statutory reference: ORC 3737.63
(e) Standards for Equipment.
(1) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or use any fire protection or firefighting equipment that does not meet the minimum standards established by the Fire Marshal in the Fire Code.
(2) Except for public and private mobile fire trucks, no person shall service, test, repair or install for profit any fire protection or firefighting equipment without a certificate issued by the Fire Marshal.
Statutory Reference: ORC 3737.65(A) - (B)
(f) Persons Entitled to be Known as Firefighters. No person shall claim to the public to be or act as a firefighter, volunteer firefighter, member of a fire department, chief of a fire department, or fire prevention officer unless the person is recognized as a firefighter, volunteer firefighter, member of a fire department, member of a private fire company, chief of a fire department, or fire prevention officer by the Fire Marshal or has received a certificate issued under former ORC 3303.07 or ORC 4765.55 evidencing satisfactory completion of a firefighter training program and has been appointed by the governing board of a firefighting agency or, in the case of a volunteer firefighter, receives such a certificate within one (1) year after appointment by the governing board of a firefighting agency.
Statutory Reference: ORC 3735.66
(Ord. 2020-03. Adopted 02/27/20)