Providing the Safety of Persons & Property and Providing Issuance of Permits for Inspection for Rules & Regulations Governing all Places of Assembly

Home Browse Search

feet of the stairway. Section 15, ASH TRAYS Where smoking is permitted, there shall be provided on each table and at other convenient places suitable non - combustible ash trays or match receivers, Section 16. FIRE APPLIANCES. (a), The Chief of the Fire Department shall survey each place of assembly and shall designate suitable fire appliances and the locations and areas .where such appliances are deemed necessary. Said appliances may consist of automatic alarm systems, automatic sprinklers, standpipe and hose or portable extinguishers. After designation of type, number and place of location of such fire appliances by the Chief of the Fire Department no use of the place of assembly shall be made until the requirements so determined have been completely fulfilled, (b), All fire appliances shall be kept in proper working condition; all extinguishers and hose and similar appliances shall be visible and handy at all times and not under any circumstances hidden from view, covered or obstructed in any way. It shall be the duty of the owner or occupant or of those individuals, such as a Board of Trustees or other governing or official body, in charge of each such building or part of building occupied as a place of assembly, to set up a system of notifying the Fire Department of the existence of a fire in case such eventuality should.occur. Such system shall be submitted to the Chief of the Fire Department for his approval and shall be so designed as to cause notice of a fire to be given to the Fire Department in the shortest reasonably possible time. In the event the system submitted is not approved by the Fire Chief, then the Fire Chief shall, in writing, direct the system to be used and such system shall be taught to all regular employees or, if control and supervision of such place of assembly is conducted by volunteers or persons other than employees, then such systems shall be taught to such persons. In the event, at the time of any survey, inspection or investigation by the Chief of the Fire Department, any regular employee or any such other person exercising supervision or administration over any such building shall not have knowledge of the system and of the use of the various fire appliances determined as set forth above, then the Chief shall, unless such employees, or other persons, have been employed for a period of less than thirty days, revoke the permit for which provision is made in Section 1 of this ordinance and the building or part of building occupied as a place of assembly shall not be so used until the owner or occupant thereof makes proof to the Chief of the Fire Department that the conditions of this "fiction have been fulfilled. In the event employees, or other administrative or advisory persons, have been employed for less than thirty days, as stated above, then the Chief of the Fire Department may revoke the permit unlessia reasonable effort has been made to teach 9. - -. j