[Amended 12-21-1995 by L.L. No. 7-1995]
The Fire Marshal shall survey or cause to be
surveyed each commercial and industrial establishment, mercantile,
educational and institutional occupancy, place of assembly, hotel,
multifamily house and trailer camp and shall specify what fire-detecting
devices or extinguishing appliances shall be provided therein. In
special hazardous processes or storage, appliances of more than one
type or special systems may be required.
[Amended 12-21-1995 by L.L. No. 7-1995]
A permit shall be obtained from the Fire Marshal
for the installation of any automatic fire alarm systems, automatic
sprinkler or water-spray systems or any other special fire-extinguishing
or fire-detection systems which may be required under this chapter.
[Amended 12-21-1995 by L.L. No. 7-1995]
Sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, fire alarm
systems and other fire-protection or -extinguishing systems or appliances
which have been installed in compliance with any permit or order or
because of any law or ordinance shall be maintained in operative condition
at all times, and it shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant to
reduce the effectiveness of the protection so required; except this
shall not prohibit the owner or occupant from temporarily reducing
or discontinuing the protection where necessary to make tests, repairs,
alterations or additions. The Fire Marshal shall be notified before
such tests, repairs, alterations or additions are started and again
notified when such tests, repairs, alterations or additions are completed.
This chapter shall not be construed to subject
the Village of Lake Grove, any fire district or Fire Department therein
or any officers or employees thereof to any civil or other liability
for any damage to persons or property by reason of the inspection
or reinspection authorized herein or failure to inspect or reinspect,
or by reason of the permit issued as herein provided or the approval
or disapproval of any equipment authorized herein.
A.
No person shall open, interfere with or draw water
from any fire hydrant in the district without a permit therefor from
the Superintendent of Public Works, except that hydrants may be opened
by or on the order of any member of a Fire Department or any Fire
Commissioner within the district for the purpose of attaching thereto
fire hose and equipment where a contract for that purpose has been
entered into with the fire district.
B.
Before a hydrant is opened and used, notification
of such fact shall be promptly given to the fire district.
C.
No tools or implements shall be used to open hydrants
except such as are furnished by the district or by a Fire Department
operating within the district.
No vehicle of any kind, except fire apparatus,
shall at any time, except as otherwise provided in Section 86, Subdivision
7, of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, be stopped or left standing within
10 feet of any fire hydrant, fire well or cistern on any private or
municipal highway or any designated fire zone on any such road or
area.
No vehicle of any kind, except fire apparatus,
shall at any time be parked or stopped within 100 feet distant each
way from any building which is on fire. Any vehicle which shall be
parked in violation of this section may be summarily removed by the
Fire Department.
No vehicle of any kind not a part of the municipal
fire apparatus shall at any time be driven over fire hose or other
fire equipment.
No person, except a driver of fire apparatus,
shall follow in a vehicle of any kind within 500 feet of any fire
apparatus answering a fire alarm.
[Amended 8-19-2010 by L.L. No. 4-2010]
A.
A Fire Advisory Board is hereby established which
shall consist of five members, all of whom shall be residents of their
respective fire districts serving the Incorporated Village of Lake
Grove. All members of the Fire Advisory Board shall be appointed by
the Village Board for terms of three years. However, of said five
members, two shall represent the Ronkonkoma Fire District and two
shall represent the Centereach Fire District and one shall represent
the Village of Lake Grove. The appointment of the two members representing
their respective fire districts shall be upon the recommendation of
the respective districts which they represent.
B.
The Fire Advisory Board shall select from its own
members a Chairman and a Vice Chairman and shall meet at least once
every two months. Meetings shall be at the call of the Chairman or
upon the request of three members of the Board. Three members shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
C.
The Fire Advisory Board shall study and review the
operation of this chapter and all administration thereof by the Fire
Marshal and the two Fire Departments for the purpose of formulating
and recommending improvements and changes in this chapter. The Fire
Advisory Board shall act as an advisory body to the Village Board
and to the Fire Marshal in connection with the carrying out of the
provisions and purposes of this chapter.
[Amended 12-21-1995 by L.L. No. 7-1995]
The Village Board shall have power to modify
any of the provisions of this chapter upon application in writing
by the owner or lessee or his duly authorized agent, when there are
practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter
of the chapter, provided that the spirit of the chapter shall be observed,
public safety secured and substantial justice done. The particulars
of such modification when granted or allowed and the decision of the
Village Board thereon shall be entered upon the minutes and records
of the village.
