[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Allegheny 12-8-1986 as §§ 6.51 to 6.56 of the 1986 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall place ashes, cinders, dirt,
rubbish, building material or other material of any sort whatsoever
around or close to any fire hydrant in the Township of Allegheny,
so as to cause hindrance or delay in access thereto or use thereof.
No person shall in any way interfere with or tamper with any fire
hydrant or attempt to take water therefrom without special authority
from the Fire Chief or the person acting as such, or from the Fire
Committee of the Board of Supervisors.
Without the consent of the Fire Chief or the
person acting as such or of the Fire Committee of the Board of Supervisors,
no person, not an active member of any volunteer fire department of
Allegheny Township, shall at any time ride upon any of the fire apparatus
of the Township or of any of the companies belonging to such department;
nor shall any person make use of any fire apparatus, hose or other
equipment of the Fire Department, other than for the purpose for which
the same is intended, without such consent.
No person actually engaged in the extinguishment
of a fire, or the saving of property endangered thereby, shall enter
any building in which a fire is being fought by the Fire Department,
either during or after such fire, without the consent of the owner
or occupant of such building.
No person, not an active member of any volunteer
Fire Department of Allegheny Township, shall at any time enter within
the fire lines, being the roped-off area around or in the vicinity
of any fire, or interfere with or attempt to operate any of the apparatus
or equipment of such Fire Department, or any fire hydrant, or interfere
by giving orders, unless requested to do so by the Fire Chief or the
person acting as such with the proper authority; provided that the
Chairman of the Board or any member of the Board of Supervisors, any
policeman or special fire policeman or any other law enforcement officer
or the owner or occupant of any property within the fire lines, and
such other persons as may specifically be passed by the Fire Chief
or the person acting as such may enter within such fire lines.
The Chairman of the Board and any policeman
of the Township, including any member of the special fire police,
shall have the power in case of fire to disperse all collections of
idle, disorderly and suspicious persons and of persons hindering the
fighting of fire by their presence; and in any other way deemed necessary
to preserve order and prevent the commission of offenses on such occasions.
Any person interfering with or refusing to obey any such officer in
the discharge of such duty shall be guilty of a violation of this
chapter.
Any person who violates or permits a violation
of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought
before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal
Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default
of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that
such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated
shall also constitute a separate offense.
