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O#73ORDIITANCE NO. 73. AN ORDIIfA2~iCE OF THE TO'i'll OF B01q~TON, FLORIDA, REGULATING AI'TD CONTROLLING FIRE EXTIiTCTION A3.ID FIRE PREVENTIOI,[ /~ND PROVID~G PUNISI~J~ENT FOR ANY PERSON, FIRI~f OR CORPOP~tTION GUILTY OF Al~f VI0~%TION OF SAID ORDINANCE BY FiNE OR I~- PRISON~,,~NT OR BOTH, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CON- FLICT HEi.~iVI TH. N0'.¥,_.~,~mT~W.~'~'~;~..~, BE IT 0RD~iII~[ED BY THE T0'?;~ COI¥:?ISSI ON OF THE TOtV]; OF BOYNT0t.~, FLORIDA:- ARTICLE ONE FI'R'E EXTIKC~ON Section 1. IDLE OR SUSPICIOUS PERSONS I~[AY BE DESPERSED. During the ~ctual prevalence of any f'ire', the officers of the Polic~e and i~ire Department shall remove, or cause to be removed and kept away from the vicinity of such fire, all idle and suspicious persons, and all persons not fit to be employed, or not actually and usefully employed in aiding the extinguishment of such fire or in the pre- servation of the property in the vicinity thereof. Section 2. FIRE HOSE: HOSE [;3RIDGES. ~(o driver of a vehicle, nor chauffeur of a motor vehicle, shall drive any such vehicle over or across any hose in use, or about to be used, or while lying in the roadway after being used by any portion of the Fire Department, but the pro- visions of this section shall not apply to dri- vers of w~gons or motor-vehicles carrying the United States mail, nor to drivers and ambulances ~.vhen conveying any patient or injured person to any hospital, or when proceeding to the scene of any accident by which any person or persons have been injured; nor to the driver of any vehicle directed or permitted to drive over or across such hose, by the officer of the Fire Department in c.:~mmand of the force operating at a fire· The ~ire Chief is empowered to provide for laying fire hose over tt-;e railway tracks of the To',~l of '$o.~mton, when nece~s~ry, by suitable hose-bridges. 1. 0PENI?:~G OR TAI~,:~PLRI~G ~';ST~[. ~o person, other than an employee of the Department of 7later Supply, or the Fire Department, sh~:~lt open, use or tamper with a fire-hyde,ant or high-pressure-hydrant, with- out previous permission in wirint from the Vice- ~ayor; nor shall any person leave such a hyd?ant open for a longer period than shall be limited in the permission or use water for other purposes than shall have been authori.-~ed b~ the Vice-~[ayor. 2. OBSTRUCTI~-..~G. No person shall in any manner ob- struct the use of any fire hydrant, or allow any sand or dirt to be thrown or piled upon or around the same, or plaice, or .~llow to be place, any material or thing in front thereof, from the curb line to the center of the street and to within ten (10) feet from either side thereof. Ail sand and dirt accumulating in the street, within the space hereinbefore mentioned, shall be removed by the owner, lessee, or tenant, of the premises fronting the said space, in the same manner as is prescribed for the keeping clear of the sidewalk. Ail material or things found obstructing any fire hydrant may be frothwith removed by officers or employees of the Fire Depart~ent, at the risk, cost and expense, of the owner or claimant. The i~'ire Chief shall take all proper measures to keep fire hydrants in proper condition for use at all times. Section 4. FIRE ALAR[' SYSTE].~. 1. PROTECTIO~ OF. - The fire alarm system shall not b'~ ope'r~["ted ~r used ex~:ept by the Fire Chief, or ~ffi~ers and employees of the Fire Department charged with its operation or maintenance or au- thorized to use it for instruction or drill; pro- vided policemen ~d citizens may freely operate the same to con~municate actual alarms of fire. No person shall use the appliances thereof for com~'~unicating a false alarm; nor shall any person e?periment or tamper therewith, for any purpose whatever, without such authority. No person shall post, paint, i~?ress, or in ~ny way affiz to any pole or standard connected w~th t~,e fire alarm system or any box, wire or there appliance connec- ted therewith, any placard, sign, broadside, notice, or announcement of .~ny kind.; nor shall nay person cut, mutilate, alter, mar, deface, cover, obstruct or interfere with the same in any manner whatsoever; nor paint or cause to be painted, the poles or other standards, of a similar color or colors, or in imitation thereof, nor consent, allow, or be privy to ~ny of said things being done for them or u~on their behalf. 2. FALSE ALARm,iS.- ~[o person shall willfully or designedly raise, create or continued-~ false alarm of fire, or aid, abet or assist in raising, creating or continuing such a false alarm. Police officers are specially charged and directed to aid in the enforce~ent of this section. Section 5. STREETo FI]~S: PERI,[ITS REQUIRED.-Ilo person shall kindle, build, maintain or use a fire upon any dock, pier or bulkltead; nor in or upon a street, or lot, without a permit from the Fire Chief. A permit to kindle, t~ild, maintain and use a fire in or uoon a public street for the purpose of conducting a trade or business may be issued by the Fire Chief upon an application giving such information as may be required by him, and upon receipt of :.a feet of 130.50, excerpt that no fees shall be required for permits issued for the kindling and maintaining of such fires for the sole purpose of destroying fallen leaves, brush, weeds and palmetto outside of the fire limits. No permit shall be issued, however, to kindle, build maintain or use a fire - (a) '~lithin fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant; (b) q,'ithin two (~) feet of the surface of any stone pavement. (c) On or v,ithin two (2) feet of the surface of any asphalt pavement, except for the purpose or repairing, removing or construct- ing the same. A fire kindled, built and maintained under a permit issued in con- formity with the provisions of this section shall be continuously under the care and direction of a competent person, selected by the Fire Chief, from the time it is kindled until it is extinguished. Section 7. LIGHTED ]7,ATCI~ES~ uIG~RS~ C±_rARETTES~ DIS- CARDING OF RzGU~T~D. No person shall throw away any lig~ed matcH, cigar or cigarette within any building or structure or in any car of other vehicle for the common carriage of passengers unless it be to deposit the same in a suitable con- tainer of met.~l or other non-combustible material provided for the reception thereof'. FIRE PREV~LTIOL Section 1. FIRE ALqRM Ah~D FIRE-EXTIYGUISHING APPLIANCES.- The owners and proprietors of all manufactorie s, hotels, tenement-houses, apartment houses, office buildings, boarding and lodging houses, warehouses stores and offices, theatres and music halls, and the authorities or persons having charge of all hospitals and asylums, and of the public s-chools and othe, r public buildings, churches and other places where large numbers of perssons are congre- gated for purposes of worship, instruction or a- musement, and all piers, bulkheads, wharves, pier sheds or other water-front structures, shall pro- vide such means of communicating alarms of fire, accident or danger to the Police or Fire Depart- ment, respectively, as the Town Commissioners may prescribe, and shall also provide such fire hose, fire extinguishers, buckets, axes, fire hooks, fire doors and other means of preventing snd ex- tinguishing fires as the Tov~n Commissioners may direct. Section 2. DIAGRANS OR ~:?Y~}~ifS OF EGRESS.- In any""of the' buildings refe'rred to in this Article, vchen required by the To~vn Commissioners, there shall be posted such cards as the said Tovm Commissioners shall direct upon which sha'!! be printed a diagram showing the exits, halls, stair- ways, elevators and fire escapes of the building, and, in the halls and passage-ways, such ~zigns as the said Tovm Commissioners shall direct shall be posted indicating the location of the stairs and fire escapes. Section 3. FI?.E DRILLS I~.? SCHOOLS: INTERFEREi~?CE 7:TTH.- No person shall drive a vehicle of any kind through a line of children issuing from or returning to a public school during a fire drill, nor interfere, hinder, obstruct or impede in any v~ay whatsoever any such fire drill. Section 4. LIGHTS. ~%11 lights ~sed in theatres and other places of public amusement, manufactories, stores, hotels, lodging-houses, and in show windows shall be properly protected by gloves or glass coverings, or in such manner as the Fire Chief shall prescribe. Section 5. STORAGE OF CONBUSTIBLE FIBRES. 1. DEFI~fITI0~[. As used in this section, "Combustible Fibre"', means and finely divided vegetale or animal fibre, including paper and cloth, in the form of scraps or clip~oings; hay; straw; excelsior; dried moss, e3:cepting moss used for medi:'~ina! purposes; grasses, and similar substances. 2. PERNIT REQUIi~]D. - ilo person shall store or keep on hand in any premises any combustible fibre or material in e3~cess of one (1) ton without a permit from the Fire Chief. The annual fee for such a permit shall be for quantities of ten (10) tons or more, ~10.00 (Ten Dollars); over five (5) tons and less than ten (10) tons, i~5.00 (Five Dollars); over one (1) ton and less than five (5) tons, ~i~2.00 (Two Dollars). [4. RESTRICTIOL%. - No permit shall be issued for such storage in any building or premises: (a) Situated within 50 (fifty) fee t of the nearest wall of a building occupied as a school, hospital, theatre or other place of public amusement or assembly; (b) Occupied as a tenement house, or hot el; (c) Of wooden construction, except in sparsely populated district, where it shall be in the descretion of the Fire Chief: (d) ]~ich is not equipped with a fire extin- guishing system, approved by the Fire Chief; (e) L~ere paints, varnished, or lacc;uers are manufactured, stored or kept for sale; (f) '.~aere dry goods, or other highly inflammable materials are manufactured stored or kept for sale; (g) ¥~ere matches, rosin, turpentine or any e~:plosives are stored or kept. 4. ~]VEIG~T LIYIT. No person shall store upon any floor of a building any combustible fibre exceed- ing in weight one-third of the .~afe bearing capa- city of such floor; or covering, when baled, more than two-thirds of the floor spa~e of such floor, and no such material shall be piled to a greater height than two-thirds of the distance from the floor to the ceiling. 5. FACTORIES. - The storage of combustible fibres in any buiId~ing used as a factory or workshop (except where such combustible fibre enters into the article or material maunfactured in such work- shop or factory) if prohibited unless such combus- tible fibre does not exceed five (5) tons and is used and stored in a portion of the premises se- parated from the remainder of the building by walls, floors and ceilings, protected by fire retarding material and with all floor openings similarly pro- tected and constructed in a manner approved by the Fire Chief. In no event shall more than one perm. it be o~anoed for the storage of combustible fibre in a single building used as a factory or workshop. :iection ~. STORAGE OR EI,~PTY v,~00DE~ PAC~I~G B~XES, CASES AI~D BARRELS. ~- PERZ~IT REQUIRED. - No person ahall s tore in any buil~.i~g, shed, inclosure or other structure any empty wooden packing boxes, cases or barrels in a ~uantity occupy~ng a space greater than one thousand (1000) cubic fee, without a permit from the Fire Chief. The annual fee for such a permit shall be ~;5.00 (Five Dollars) 2. RESTRICTIOFS. No permit shall be issued for the"stora2e of empty wooden packing boxes, cases or barrels in any lot, shed or inclosure; (a) 'h2~ich is not enclosed by a substantial fence not less than ten (10) nor more than eighteen (18) feet in height above the street level. If any building having an unpierced fire wall adjoins the enclosure no fence shall be re- quired on the side of such building. The storage space shall be completely separated from any wi. ndow or door openings of the wall of an adjoining buildi.ng by a substantial fence of fire-retarding materials of a height satis- factory to the Fire Chief, erected at least six (8) feet from such opening and extended at least six (6) feet on each side thereof and continued to the sides of the enclosure of carried to the walls of the building. No permit shall be issued authorizing the storage of empty wooden pac!~ing boxes or barrels in any building or structure the walls of which are not built of fire proof material except in the sparsely populated districts. (b) YM~ich is situated within fifty ($0) feet of the nearest wall of a building occupied as a hospital, school, theatre or other place of public amusement or assembly. ~. FIRE PRE~YE!~TION. - No person shall pile empty wooden packing boxes, cases or barrels to a height greater than six (~) inches below the top of the inclosing wall required by subdivision ~ of this section. Excelsior, sawdust, paper and packing matc~ria! shall be removed from the premises at least once daily; electric motors shall be enclosed in an approved manner; at least twelve (!~) water buckets of ten (!0) quarts caoacity shall be pro- vided for every ~'~nety-five h~ndred (~,500) square feet of leer surface, or in lieu thereof, hose of at least one (1) inch in diameter, equipped with a nozzle of at least one-half (~) inch in diameter, sufficient in length to reach all parts of the en- closure, and connected to an adequate water ~poly. Section 7. ~50DIFICATI01~S. Tilden the circumstances, con- ditions']' iimitati6ns or surroundings of any busi- ness, occupation, trade, industry of premises, re- ferred to in Section $ and 8, of this Article, are unusual, or such as to render impractical or be unduly burdensome the enforcement of the provi- sions of the said sections applicable thereto, the Fire Chief may waive, or modify such provisions to such extent as he may deem necessary in the pre- 130 mises~consistent with public safety. Section 8. SI~.~OKI!..~G. - No person shall smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or match within any room, enSlosed space, or in any part of any premises in which any highly combustible or fla?~mable material is manufactured, stored or kept for use or sale. Offices, not containing highly combustible or inflammable material, and separated from the other parts of said places or premises by a tight partition or a self-closing door, shall be exempt from this prohibition. Section 9..BARNS~ STABLES AI~[D GARAGES. - No person shall take in'to or use in. any' barn, stgble or garage any lighted candle, oil or fluid lamp, or any burning light of any kind whatsoever, unless the same be inclosed and secured in a good ~lass, horn or other lantern. Section 10. ASHES.- Yo person shall deposit ashes on the wooden floor of any building, nor in any barrel, or box, or other wooden vessel standing on any such floor, nor place any such barrel, box or other vessel contai '~ nz~g ashes upon any such floor. Section tl. CHARITABLE IYSTiTUTI0YS. No charitable in- stitutions in the To,,,m of !~oynton, Florida, which serves the public free of charge, shall be required to pay any fees for any p~:.~cits required under the provisions of this 0rdi~ance, provided the material for which the pez~nit is required is ova'ned smd used in connection with such institution. Section 12. DISPOSITI0~ OF FEES. - It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief to keep an accurate record of all receipts of the Fire Department and turn same over to the Treasurer of the Town of Bo~mton together with duplicate ~'opies of all permits issued on the last day of every month, such sum or sums as may have been received by him during such month taking therefore the Treasurer,s receipt, which said re- ceipt shall become a part of the records of said Fire. Department. The Treasurer of the To~vn of Boynton, shall deposit all monies received from the Fire Department for ?ees and Permits in the General Fund crediting the Fire Department appropriation with amount so deposited. Section 15. Vi0LATI0~!S. - Any person, firm or corpora- tion who shall violate, or refuse or neglect to com- ply with any provisions of this Ordinance shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hu_~dred Dollars (~500.00), or by im- prisonment not exceeding Thirty Days (30), or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. - THIS 0RDI!{~NCE having been read in full at a meeting of the Tov~n Commission of the To~,-,n of Boynton, Florida, held on the 2nd, day of August 1926, was finally adopted on its final reading at a regul..i~ meeting of said Town Commission held on the 17th day of August 1926, and a copy hereof posted at the door of the Totem Hall. R. 0. ~lyers, ~,layor (Signed) Harry Benson,Vice Msyor (Signed) E.L.Winchester,Town Clerk (Signed) Town Commissioners of the Town of Boynton, Fto?~.