CHAPTER 17 FIRE DEPARTMENT SECTION 17-1 Fire Chief SECTION 17-2 Fire Marshall SECTION 17-3 Salary. When and How Paid SECTION 17-4 Duties and Powers SECTION 17-5 Authority to Remove Poles, Wires, and Buildings. Limitations SECTION 17-6 Fire Department May blockade Street SECTION 17-7 Limits At Fire SECTION 17-8 Unlawful Interference with Officers, Apparatus, Water, etc. Penalty SECTION 17-9 Fire Hydrants, Parking Nearby SECTION 17-10 Fire Hydrants on Private Property SECTION 17-11 Use of Water SECTION 17-12 Theaters, Places of Public Assembly. Chief to Prescribe Rules SECTION 17-13 Combustibles SECTION 17-14 Right to Enter Premises SECTION 17-15 Dangerous and Defective Structures, Combustible Waste, Explosives, Storage of, Notice to Make Safe SECTION 17-16 Unoccupied Buildings SECTION 17-17 Investigation After Fire. Report SECTION 17-18 Wilfully or Negligently Causing Fire SECTION 17-19 Throwing Lighted Objects from Vehicle SECTION 17-20 Driving Over Fire Hose SECTION 17-21 Right of Way SECTION 17-22 Apparatus SECTION 17-23 Interference with Apparatus. Penalty SECTION 17-24 False Alarm. Penalty SECTION 17-25 False Alarm. Practice Runs SECTION 17-26 Open Burning SECTION 17-27 Knox Box SECTION 17-28 Traffic Control Preemption Equipment CHAPTER 17 FIRE Department SECTION 17-1. Fire Chief. The Mayor, with the consent of and approval of the City Council, shall appoint the Chief of the Fire Department. The City Manager shall initiate the recruitment process as determined by the City personnel policies. Volunteer firefighters will be part of the selection committee. The Fire Chief shall organize and direct the activities and staff to protect lives and property of the City. SECTION 17-2. Fire Marshall. There shall be the position of Fire Marshall, whose duties shall include: Inspections of various types of structures and/or locations to insure compliance with the Utah Building Code, Utah Life Safety Code and Uniform Fire Code requirements; enforce applicable fire safety codes and regulations; respond to citizen's complaints, inspect and tag fire extinguishers together with the recording of all fire incidents for State Incident Reporting Systems and other duties and responsibilities appertaining to the position. The Fire Marshall shall work under the general supervision of the Fire Chief. Education and experience for the job shall be in accordance with the City Personnel Policy. SECTION 17-3. Salary. When and How Paid. The salary of the full time employees and the hourly firefighters shall be fixed by resolution of the City Council from time to time, and shall be paid from the funds of the City upon warrants drawn by the City. SECTION 17-4. Duties and Powers. The activities of fire prevention and fire suppression and of protecting life and property within the City is entrusted to the Chief of the Fire Department. The Chief may divide the City into fire districts and make such rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the City Council for the government of all officers and members of the Department, as deemed expedient. The Chief may make suitable regulations under which the officers and members of the Department shall be required to wear and appropriate uniform or badge, by which, in case of fire and other times, their authority and position in the Fire Department may be known. The Chief shall have the sole and entire command over all officers and members of the Department at fires. The Chief shall have full charge at all times of all apparatus and appurtenances belonging to the Department, and shall adopt such measures as deemed expedient for the suppression and prevention of fire, protection of property, or preservation of order and observance of the laws of the State, and the ordinances of the City. It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Department to examine the condition of all fire stations and to inspect all apparatus and equipment of the City Fire Department. Ch. 17 Pg. 1 It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to see that all times the provisions of these ordinances relating to the protection and regulation of property are strictly enforced, and also all provisions of those ordinances for the prevention of and the protection against fires. In addition, the Fire Chief may issue citations to any and all persons not obeying directions or in any manner interfering with the operation of the Fire Department and is specifically authorized to arrest any person following a fire vehicle in such a manner as to interfere with the operation of the Fire Department. SECTION 17-5. Authority to Remove Poles, Wires, and Buildings. Limitations. When a fire is in progress, the Chief of the department, or if absent, the officer in charge, in case of urgent necessity may order any telephone, telegraph, electric wire or poles, in close proximity thereto, to be torn down or otherwise disposed of, and the officer may likewise order any building or buildings in close proximity thereto, to be torn down or otherwise disposed of for the purpose of checking the conflagration, but neither the Chief of the department nor any other officer or member of the Fire Department shall unnecessarily or recklessly destroy or injure any building or other property. SECTION 17-6. Fire Department May Blockade Street. When a fire shall occur, it shall be lawful for the Chief, or the officer in command, to blockade any street, or other place if in the Chief's judgment it is necessary to secure the efficient working of fire personnel and apparatus under the Chief's command and to protect the hose of said department from injury. It shall be unlawful for any person to break through said blockade. SECTION 17-7. Limits at Fire. The Chief of Police, in conjunction with the fire officer in charge may prescribe the limits in the vicinity of the fire within which no person, except members of the department, and police, or those admitted by order of the officer in charge shall be permitted to come. SECTION 17-8. Unlawful Interference with Officers, Apparatus, Water, etc. Penalty. Any person who shall wilfully hinder any fire officer or firefighter in the discharge of their duty at a fire, or in any manner injure, deface or destroy any engine, hose, or other fire apparatus belonging to the City or in any way interfering with the water or its source of supply, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 17-9. Fire Hydrants, Parking Nearby. The fire Chief, in cooperation with the Chief of Police, shall designate the restricted area for parking adjacent to a fire hydrant, which prohibited parking shall be a minimum of five (5) feet and such further distance as shall be determined to be reasonably safe, and if a greater distance than five Ch. 17 Pg. 2 feet is required, the curb line shall be properly marked. Any such parking a vehicle or placing any other property within the prohibited parking area next to a fire hydrant shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 17-10. Fire Hydrants on Private Property. (A) Cedar City, Utah, shall be authorized to place fire hydrants on private property on location facing a street whenever it is deemed advisable by the Cedar City Council. (B) No fire hydrant shall be placed upon private property without first having secured an easement from the property owner allowing the fire hydrant to be so placed, and said easement shall specifically indemnify Cedar City for the liability incurred by so placing said fire hydrant and shall further free Cedar City from any and all liability from said placement. © Fire hydrants shall be placed on private property only under the following conditions: (1) That said fire hydrants is immediately adjacent to a street fifty feet or less in width. (2) That there is no available ample fire protection from any other source. (3) That the water main serving the street will provide sufficient water to adequately provide for any fire hydrant installed. (D) In the event fire hydrants are placed as herein contemplated, Cedar City Corporation shall lay sufficiently large pipe from the water main to the hydrant to serve the same. SECTION 17-11. Use of Water. The Chief of the Fire Department or other officer in charge, shall have the right to use water from any source for the purpose of extinguishing fires or for saving property in danger of being destroyed thereby. SECTION 17-12. Theaters, Places of Public Assembly. Chief to Prescribe Rules. It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief, subject to the approval of the City Council, to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the prevention of fire in theaters, schools, churches, and other places of assemblage or public amusements. Such rules and regulations shall be printed and posted in conspicuous places as designated by the Fire Chief, and it shall be unlawful for any person to remove, obstruct or deface the same. It shall be the duty and responsibility of the owner or person having control of such building to cause and bring about compliance with all rules and regulations. SECTION 17-13. Combustibles. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit the accumulation of empty boxes, waste, or other inflammable substance on any premises within the City limits or carry on any business in or about any premises in such a manner as to endanger such premises or buildings or other building or premises to danger by fire, or explosion. Ch. 17 Pg. 3 SECTION 17-14. Right to Enter Premises. The Fire Chief or the fire deputies shall have the right to enter upon any premises at all reasonable hours for the purposes of inspecting the same.