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No person shall deposit ashes, smouldering. coal-.or embers, greasy
<br />or oily substances or other matter liable to create spontaneous ignition,
<br />within ten (10) feet of any wooden or plastered wall, partition, fence,
<br />floor, sidewalk, lumber, hay, shavings, rubbish, or other combustible materials
<br />except in metallic or other non — combustible receptacles. Such.reoeptacles,
<br />unless resting on a non — combustible floor or on the ground outside the build-
<br />ing, must be placed on non — combustible stands, and in every case must be kept
<br />at least two (2) feet away from any combustible wall or partition.
<br />No person shall permit to remain upon any roof, or in any court,
<br />cart vacant lot or open space, any accumulation of waste paper, hay, grass,
<br />straw, weeds, litter or combustible or flammable waste or rubbish of any
<br />kind., All weeds, grass vines or other growth, when same endangers property,
<br />or is liable to be fired, shall be cut down and removed by the owner or
<br />occupant of the property it is on.
<br />No person making, using, storing or having charge or control of
<br />any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter, hay, straw or
<br />combustible trash, waste or fragments shall fail, neglect or refuse at
<br />the close of each day to cause all such matter which is not compactly
<br />baled and stacked in an orderly manner to be removed from the building
<br />or stored in suitable vaults or in metal, or metal lined covered re-
<br />ceptacles or bins. The Director of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall
<br />require suitable baling presses to be installed in stores, apartment
<br />buildings, factories and similar places where accumulation of paper and
<br />waste materials are not removed at least every second day.
<br />Electric light bulbs in stores or public halls shall not be
<br />decorated with paper or other combustible materials unless such materials
<br />shall first have been rendered flameproof.
<br />In places of public assembly all combustible decorative materials,
<br />including curtains, acoustical materials, streamers, cloth, cotton batting,
<br />straw, vines, leaves and moss, but not including floor coverings, shall
<br />be rendered flameproof; provided this shall not be required of materials
<br />not exceeding one— sixteenth inch in thickness applied directly to and
<br />adhering to a non — combustible base, Such flameproofing, unless certified
<br />by Underwriterst laboratories, Inc., or other laboratories of recognized
<br />standing as being of a permanent nature, shall be renewed each six (6)
<br />months, if necessary.
<br />SECTION 6.
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