Chapter 16 Fire

TOWN OF NEWELL

Chapter 16 - Fire

 

Section 1. Fire Limits: Amended by: Ordinance 130

Section 2. Building Permits:

No building of any description shall be constructed or moved, nor shall any building be remolded or repaired to an  extent in excess of fifty (50%) percent of it s present value without a Building Permit, as proved in Chapter 12 of this Ordnance.

Section 3. Material: Amended in Ordinance 91

Section 4. Electrical Installations: Amended in Ordinance 100

Section 5. Electrician’s License:

No person or persons shall engage in the business of installing electric wiring or apparatus for light, power or heating purposes connected with any building in the City of Newell without first obtaining a license from the Department of Building Inspection, and no license shall be granted without a payment of an annual License Fee of ten ($10.00) dollars and the furnishing of a good and sufficient Bond of five hundred ($500.00) dollars, to meet the approval of the City Council, as a guarantee that all work done by the electrician will be done in compliance with this Chapter.

Section 6. Defective Wiring:

Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction on the Building Inspector that any electric wiring is defective in quality or manner of installation, whether the same be now installed or hereafter proposed to be installed, so as to make such wiring dangerous to life or property, said Inspector shall have power and it shall be his duty to cut off the eclectic currant from such wring until the defect shall have been remedied.

Section 7. Chimneys:

All chimneys hereafter erected, altered or rebuilt within Fire Limits shall have walls not less then eight (8) inches thick unless it is lined on the inside with well-burnt terra cotta or ;fie clay chimney tiles set in Portland cement motor, in which case the wall shall be not less than four (4) inches thick. The lining shall be continuous from the bottom of the fire flue to its extreme height. No chimneys shall be corbelled out more than eight (8) inches from a brick wall and such corbelling shall consist of at least five (5) courses of brick. Brick set on edge shall not be allowed tin chimney construction. No chimney shall be set on a wooden support or any kind. Support shall be incombustible and rest on the foundation or on the ground.  All chimneys shall project a least three (3) feet above the point of contact with a flat roof, or two (2) feet above the ridge of a pitched roof. No smoke pipe shall be allowed to pass through any lath and plaster or other wooden partition or floor or roof, but shall pass directly into a brick chimney.

Section 8.  Fire Escapes

All public buildings, including schoolhouses, hospitals, hotels or rooming house and public meeting halls or two (2) or more stories in height, shall be provided with either one or more metallic ladders or other suitable metallic fire escape, subject to the approval of the Building Inspector, or shall be provided with two (2) or more stairway exists of good construction, safe-guarded by guard rails from the top to the bottom.

Section 9. Exits in Public Halls:

Every public hall designated to accommodate two hundred (200) people or more shall have at least two (2) exits, one of which shall be at least five (5) feet wide and the other at least two (21/2) feet six (6) inches wide, and the doors to at least one (1) exit shall open outward. If the floor of such hall is more than two (2) feet from the surface of the ground at the exits, suitable steps for making exit shall be provided.

Section 10. Hay or Straw:

 No person shall stack hay or straw in the open air within the Fire Limits of this City.

 Section 11. Burning of Refuse:

 It shall be unlawful to burn within the Fire Limits any waste paper, sweepings, trash, straw or any other combustible material on either Streets, Avenues, Alleys or vacant Lots within said Fire Limits provided that any such waste material may be burned within said District between sun-up and sun-down in a metallic waste paper burner approved by the Building Inspector.

Section 12. Ashes:

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or allow to be placed in any building or vacant Lot within the Fire Limits any ashes unless same are deposited and kept in some metallic or other fire-proof receptacle, provided that dead ashes that have been placed in such receptacle and left there for three (3) or more days until they have become cold and free from fire risk may be deposited on private grounds subject to the approval of the owner thereof. No ashes shall be dumped in any Street, Avenue or Alley.

 Section 13. Fireworks:  (Updated by Ordinance 07-2006)

  1. Storage: The City of Newell shall have power to regulate or prohibit the storage of combustible or explosive material, the use of open flame lights, building of bonfires and the use or sale of fireworks (SDCL 9-33-1).
  2. Discharging Limits: No person or persons, associations, partnerships or corporations shall set off or give cause to set off any fireworks, sky rocket, roman candle, torpedo or any other kind of fireworks or pyrotechnic display within the City Limits or within one (1) mile thereof except that such discharging will be allowed between the

hours of eight (8:00) A. M. and eleven (11:00) P.M. on July 3rd, 4th      and 5th of each year.

  1. Fire Chief: The Newell City Fire Chief may, at his discretion, declare as off limits for the discharging of fireworks; any Section or Parcel within the City Limits or within one (1) mile thereof, without regard for those times otherwise permitting such discharges.
  2. Reckless Discharge: It is unlawful for any person to discharge or use fireworks in a reckless manner which creates a substantial risk or death or serious physical injury to another person or damage to the property of another.
  3. Fines: Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be punishable by a Fine not to exceed two hundred ($200.00) dollars and shall stand committed until such Fine and Costs are paid.

 Section 14. Fire Department:

The Newell Volunteer Fire Department, while duly organized and active, shall have care and supervision of the fire-fighting equipment of the City, subject to the legal ownership; and control by the City, and in cases of fire shall take complete charge thereof as provided in the Constitution and By-Laws of the Fire Department.

Section 15. Penalty:

Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a Fine of not less than five ($5.00) dollars and not more then one hundred ($100.00) dollars and Costs, and shall stand committed until such Fine and Costs are paid.