[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Dane 4-1-1996 as Secs. 5-2-2 to 5-2-9 and 5-3-1 of the 1996 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
No person shall impede the progress of a fire engine, fire truck
or other fire apparatus of the Dane Fire Department along the streets
or alleys of such Village at the time of a fire or when the Fire Department
of the Village is using such streets or alleys in response to a fire
alarm or for practice.
A.
Police authority at fires.
(1)
The Chief and assistants or officers in command at any fire are hereby
vested with full and complete police authority at fires. Any officer
of the Department may cause the arrest of any person failing to give
the right-of-way to the Fire Department in responding to a fire.
(2)
The Fire Chief may prescribe certain limits in the vicinity of any
fire within which no persons, excepting firemen and policemen and
those admitted by order of any officer of the Department, shall be
permitted to come.
(3)
The Chief shall have the power to cause the removal of any property
whenever it shall become necessary for the preservation of such property
from fire or to prevent the spreading of fire or to protect the adjoining
property, and, during the progress of any fire, he shall have the
power to cause the removal of all wires or other facilities and the
turning off of all electricity or other services where the same impedes
the work of the Department during the progress of a fire.
B.
Fire inspection duties.
(1)
The Fire Chief, or his designee, shall be the Fire Inspector of the
Village of Dane and shall have the power to appoint one or more Deputy
Fire Inspectors and shall perform all duties required of the Fire
Inspectors by the laws of the state and rules of the Department of
Safety and Professional Services, particularly § 101.14,
Wis. Stats.
(2)
While acting as Fire Inspector pursuant to § 101.14(2),
Wis. Stats., the Fire Chief, or any officer of the Fire Department
designated by the Fire Chief, shall have the right and authority to
enter any building or upon any premises in the Village of Dane at
all reasonable hours for the purpose of making inspections or investigations
which, under the provisions of this Code, he may deem necessary. Should
the Fire Inspector find that any provisions of this Code relating
to fire hazards and prevention of fires are being violated, or that
a fire hazard exists which should be eliminated, it shall be his duty
to give such directions for the abatement of such conditions as he
shall deem necessary and, if such directions be not complied with,
to report such noncompliance to the Village Board for further action.
(3)
The Chief of the Fire Department is required, by himself or by officers
or members of the Fire Department designated by him as Fire Inspectors,
to inspect all buildings, premises and public thoroughfares, except
the interiors of private dwellings, for the purpose of ascertaining
and causing to be corrected any conditions liable to cause fire or
any violations of any law or ordinance relating to the fire hazard
or to the prevention of fires. Such inspections shall be made at least
once in six months in all of the territory served by the Fire Department
and not less than once in three months in such territory as the Village
Board has designated or thereafter designates as within the Village
or as a congested district subject to conflagration and more often
as the Chief of the Fire Department orders. Each six-month period
shall begin on January 1 and July 1 and each three-month period on
January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year.
A.
Driving over fire hose. No person shall willfully injure in any manner
any hose, hydrant or fire apparatus belonging to the Dane Fire Department,
and no vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the Fire
Department when laid down on any street, private driveway or other
place, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent
of the Fire Department official in command.
B.
Parking vehicles near hydrants. It shall be unlawful for any person
to park any vehicle or leave any object within 10 feet of any fire
hydrant at any time.
C.
No parking near fire. It shall be unlawful for any person, in case
of fire, to drive or park any vehicle within one block from the place
of fire without the consent and authority of the Fire Chief or any
police officer.
A.
Entering adjacent property. It shall be lawful for any fireman while
acting under the direction of the Fire Chief or any other officer
in command to enter upon the premises adjacent to or in the vicinity
of a building or other property then on fire for the purpose of extinguishing
such fire, and in case any person shall hinder, resist or obstruct
any fireman in the discharge of his duty as is hereinbefore provided,
the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of resisting firemen
in the discharge of their duty.
B.
Destruction of property to prevent the spread of fire. During the
progress of any fire, the Fire Chief or his assistant shall have the
power to order the removal or destruction of any property necessary
to prevent the further spread of fire, provided that it is inevitable
that, unless such property is removed, other property is in danger
of being destroyed by fire.
Every person who shall be present at a fire shall be subject
to the orders of the Fire Chief or officer in command and may be required
to render assistance in fighting the fire or in removing or guarding
property. Such officer shall have the power to cause the arrest of
any person or persons refusing to obey said orders.
Whenever there shall be a fire or fire alarm or the Fire Department
shall be out for practice, every person driving or riding in a motorized
or other vehicle shall move and remain to the side of the street until
the fire engine and fire truck and other fire apparatus shall have
passed.
No person shall occupy any portion of such streets or alleys
with a motorized or other vehicle between such fire engine or fire
truck or other fire apparatus and any hydrant to which a fire hose
may be, or may be about to be, attached.
A.
General regulations.
(1)
There
shall be no open or outdoor burning in the Village of Dane except
in compliance with this subsection.
(2)
Leaves,
grasses and garden waste may be burned on private property from April
1 through May 15 and from October 1 through November 15, provided
that there shall be no such burning on Sundays and that there shall
be no such burning from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on any day. All such
burning shall be done in a legal and safe manner, and no such fires
shall be left unattended.
(3)
Open
fires are allowed for cooking, ceremonies or recreation. No such fires
shall be left unattended. The only items burned in said fires shall
be charcoal or wood.
(4)
There
shall be no container or burn barrel burning.
(5)
There
shall be no burning of trash or garbage.
(6)
The
Dane Fire Department is authorized to conduct outdoor burning for
training purposes at any time, provided that prior approval of the
Village Board is obtained and public notice of such burning is published
in the Lodi Enterprise at least five days prior to said burning and
provided that said burning is done in a legal and safe manner.
(7)
Chief
may prohibit. The Fire Chief is permitted to prohibit any or all bonfires
and outdoor fires when atmospheric conditions or local circumstances
make such fires hazardous.
(8)
DNR
burning restrictions. When the Wisconsin DNR implements burning restrictions
in designated areas which include the Village of Dane, the Village
of Dane hereby institutes the same burning restrictions.
B.
Outdoor solid-fuel heating devices.
(1)
OUTDOOR SOLID-FUEL HEATING DEVICE
As
used in this subsection, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A device designed to generate heat, hot water or both for
the interior of a building by solid fuel combustion where the enclosure
in which the combustion takes place is located outside of the building
for which the heat, hot water or both are to be generated. This definition
includes but is not limited to outdoor wood-burning heating units.
(2)
Outdoor
solid-fuel heating devices are prohibited in the Village of Dane.
The following orders, rules and regulations of the Department
of Safety and Professional Services, all of which are set forth in
the Wisconsin Administrative Code, as from time to amended, are incorporated
herein by reference and adopted as part of this chapter:
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Ch. SPS 307, Explosives and Fireworks
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Ch. SPS 310, Flammable, Combustible and Hazardous Liquids
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Ch. SPS 314, Fire Prevention
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Ch. SPS 332, Public Employee Safety and Health
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Ch. SPS 340, Gas Systems
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Ch. SPS 343, Anhydrous Ammonia
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Chs. SPS 361 to 366, Wisconsin Commercial Building Code
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Wisconsin Electrical Code
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