A.
Permit required. No person shall kindle or maintain
any bonfire or rubbish fire or authorize any such fire to be kindled
or maintained on or in any public street, alley, road or other public
ground or on any private land without a permit from the Chief of the
Port Jefferson Fire Department. During construction or demolition
of buildings or structures, no waste materials or rubbish shall be
disposed of by burning on the premises or in the immediate vicinity
without having obtained a permit from the Chief of the Port Jefferson
Fire Department.
B.
Location restricted. No person shall kindle or maintain
any bonfire or rubbish fire or authorize any such fire to be kindled
or maintained on any private land unless the location is not less
than 50 feet from any structure and adequate provision is made to
prevent fire from spreading to within 50 feet of any structure or
the fire is contained in an approved waste burner located safely not
less than 15 feet from any structure.
C.
Chief may prohibit. The Chief of the Port Jefferson
Fire Department may prohibit any or all bonfires and outdoor rubbish
fires when atmospheric conditions or local circumstances make such
fire hazardous.
Accumulations of wastepaper, hay, grass, straw,
weeds, litter or combustible or flammable waste or rubbish of any
kind shall not be permitted to remain upon any roof or in any court,
yard, vacant lot or open space. All weeds, grass, vines or other growth,
when the same endangers property or is liable to be fired, shall be
cut down and removed by the owner or occupant of the property.
No person making, using, storing or having in
charge or under his control any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks,
bags, litter, hay, straw or combustible waste materials shall fail
or neglect at the close of each day to cause all such materials which
are not compactly baled and stacked in an orderly manner to be removed
from the building or stored in suitable vaults or in metal or metal-lined,
covered receptacles or bins. The Fire Marshal shall require suitable
baling presses to be installed in stores, apartment buildings, factories
and similar places where accumulations of paper and waste materials
are not removed at least every second day.
A.
Permit required.
(1)
No person shall store in any building or upon any
premises in excess of 2,500 cubic feet gross volume of combustible
empty packing cases, boxes, barrels or similar containers, or rubber
tires or baled cotton, rubber or cork or other similarly combustible
material without a permit.
B.
Storage requirements. Storage in buildings shall be
orderly, shall not be within two feet of the ceiling or sprinkler
heads and shall not be so located as to endanger exit from the building.
Storage in the open shall not be more than 20 feet in height, shall
be so located with respect to adjacent buildings as not to constitute
a hazard, and shall be compact and orderly.
A.
No person shall take an open flame or light into any
building, barn, vessel, boat or other place where highly flammable,
combustible or explosive material is kept unless such light or flame
shall be well secured in a glass globe, wire-mesh cage or similar
approved device.
B.
No heating or lighting apparatus or equipment capable
of igniting flammable materials of the types stored or handled shall
be used in the storage area of any warehouse storing rags, excelsior,
hair or other highly flammable or combustible material, nor in the
work areas of any shop or factory used for the manufacture, repair
or renovating of mattresses or bedding, nor in the work areas of any
establishment used for the upholstering of furniture.
During the course of the construction of any
building, upon the installation of water mains on the construction
site, fire hydrants shall be immediately connected and maintained
in an operative condition. Access to all hydrants by fire-fighting
apparatus shall be provided.
