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Home My WebLink AboutORDINANCES - 07011940 - 0284 ORDINANCE LTO T Ci IAC OF C URAL IRE PROTECTION SMICT OF M COM= �' CONT RA COSTA, STATE OF � IaA TAIMIS�C 'WiaTIOITS PERTAINING To Flim xTD rm PRO ITIM OBSTRUCTIONS '!M MMS OF ZGMSS AND ACCMMIATIONS OF RUBBZSH IN PLACES OF i'tIBl C ASSMMi .. AjO IBIT- IW I I MMCZ 111TH TE b t = � , �- 1 .TIG PAR=G AT FIRES ,AND PROVIDING PENJALTIM FOR VIOL41 M O ANY OF TBE P9011SIMTS TMMOF. -------------------------- The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, the governing body of the Central Fire Protection District, do ordain as f ollows SECTIO11T I. It shall be unlawful for any person to build, light, maintain, or cause or permit to be built, lighted or maintained, any open or out- door fire at a distance within one hundred (144) feet of any building or inlamable structure in the Central Fire :protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, without a written permit first granted by the Chief of the Fire Department of the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California; provided, however, that such permit is not necessary for the burning of any f'lamable material in an incinerator constructed of noncombustible material, completely enclosed and equipped with a spark arrester of wire, metal screen, or equivalent, having a mesh or holes not to exceed one quarter } inch or any spark arrester which is designed to provide the equivalent protection. SECTION 1I. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, or cause or per mit to be left, any outdoor or open: fire unattended by any adult person in the Central Fire Protection: District of the County of Contra Costa, state of California. Before leaving any such fire , such person or per sons in charge of such fire shall thoroughly extinguish same by complete-- ly covering it with dirt, saturating it with water, or otherwise treating it in such manner to prevent rekindling of such fire. SECTION in. It shall be unlawful for any person., firm co-partnership, 1 corporation or association to place or maintain, or to cause or permit to be placed or maintained, any obstruction, whether permanent or move- able, before or upon any fire escape, exit, foyer, aisle, passageway, corridor, or any other means of egress from any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblage, while open to the public, in the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, No persons shall be allowed to stand in the aisles or passage- ways during any time such a building, or place is being used for public assemblage* All exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened in any manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which doors and hardware shall be maintained to open freely. SECTION IV. It shall be unlawful for any person., firm, co-partnership, corporation, or association to accumulate, or to cause or permit the ac- cumulation of rubbish, rags, paper or other inflamable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblage in the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,, in such manner as to con- stitute a fire menace. SECTION V. It shall be unlawful for any person. to disobey the lawful or- ders of any public officer or fireman in the immediate vicinity of the burning of brush, stumps., logs., fallen timber, fallows, slash, grass, grain, brush or forest covered land, or any other inflamable material in the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, or offer any resistance to or interfere with the lawful efforts of any public officer, fireman, or company of firemen, to extinguish the same, or engage in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or forbid, prevent or dis- suade others from assisting to extinguish the same. 26 ........... SECTION It shall be unlawful for any person to ride , drive,, or propel any vehicle or conveyance upon, over, or across any fire hose or chemi- cal hose used by or in charge of any fireman or company of firemen in the Central Firs Protection District of the County of Contra Costa,; Mate of California, or to injure stir damage ;in any spanner any such hose or fire apparatus of any kind. SECTION it shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle upon any street or highway within three hundred (300) feet of any burning building, or ether burning structure, in the Central "ire Protection District of the County of Contra Coats, Mate of California, provided, however, that this section 'shall notapply to vehicles of police offi - ers, firemen or any ovmer, tenant or other occupant of such building, or structure, or any authorized agents of such owner, tenant or ether occupant. SECTION VIII. .,any ,person violating any of the provisions of, this ordinance shall be ;guilty of a m sdameanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprison- ment not exceeding six months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every separate act or transaction in violation of this ordinance shall be deemed a separate offense SECTION This ordinance shall be posted in three of the most public places in said district for a period of two weeks, at the and of which time it is a law for the government of the inhabitants of said district. OPTRD BY the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa' on the day of July , 1940 . TTS ' n y M eric and BZ-OrrlClo .r.er c los the Board,' of supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, state of California. flRDL ' ��Q. 284 AN ORDIT ICE O CENTRAL `IRE PRC 8 ION ISR T OF ; OLMrr OF TO FM8 .0D FIRE Iry S, PROHIBIT TC CPB TUCTIC B O M= OF EGRESS ANM C CI C OF 788I Iry PI� CFB PBIC ,gym. , iB INT"01FERIMITCE WITH M TJ--YY. F FIRMIEN �' � ,1 `f, MGT'- OF TIM PRCVII ONS SM O ' ------------------------- 'he Board of supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, the governing body of the Central Fire Protection District, do ordain as follows BECIC11 I. It shall be unlawful for any person to build, light, maintain, or cause or permit to be built, lighted or maintained, any open or out- door fire at a distance within one hundred (10€3) feet of any building or inf'la able structure in the Central Tire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, state of California, without a written permit first granted by the Chief of the Fire Department of the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California; provided, however, that such permit is not necessary for the burring of any flerable material in an incinerator constructed of noncombustible;. material, completely enclosed and equipped with a spark arrester of wire, eta ;, screen, or equivalent, having a mesh or holes not to exceed one quarter : inch, or any spark arrester tihich is designed to provide the equivalent protection. SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave , or cause _or per- mit to be left, any outdoor or open fire unattended by any adult person in the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California. Before leaving any such fire, such person or per- sons in charge of such fire shall thoroughly extinguish same by complete- ly covering it with dirt, saturating it with water, or otherwise treating it in such manner to prevent rekindling of such fire. SECTION III. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership, i. corporation of association to place or maintain, or to cause or permit to be placed or maintained, any obstruction, whether permanent or move- able, before or upon any fire escape, exit, 'foyer, aisle:, passageway, corridor, or any other means of egress from any °theatre , chur''ch, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall., or other place used for public assemblage , while open to the public , in the Central Fire PrOtectlon District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, No persons shall be allowed to stand in the aisles or passage- ways during any time such a building, or place is being used for public assemblage. jUl exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened in any manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which doers and hardware shall be maintained to :,,opan freely. SECTION IV. It shall be unlawful for any parson, firm., co--partnership, corporation, or association to accumulate, or to cause or permai,t the a - cu sulatinn of rubbish, rads, paper or other infl.amable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblage in the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, in such manner as to con- stitute a fire menaced SECTION V. It shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the lawful or- ders of any public officer or fireman in the immediate vicinity of the burning of brush, stumps, logs, fallen timber, fallos, slash, grass, grain., brush or forest covered land, or any other in.flamable material in the Central Fire protection 'District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, or offer any resistance to or interfere with the lawful efforts of any public officer, fireman, or company of firemen, to extinguish the same, or engage in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or forbid,, prevent or ds- sua.de others from assisting to extinguish the same. 2. 77777 SECTION VI It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive, or propel any vehicle or conveyance upon, over, or across any fire hose or chemi- ea.l hose used by or in charge of any fireman or company of firemen in, the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California., or to injure or damage in any manner any such hese or fixe apparatus of any kind. SECTION V11. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle upon any street or highway within three hundred (300) feet of any burning building, or other burning structure, in the Central Fire Protection District of the County' of Contra Costa, state of California, provided, however, that this section shall not apply to vehicles of police offic- ers, firemen or any over, tenant or other occupant of such building, or structure or any authorized agents of such owner, tenant or ether occupant. SECTION VIII. ,ny person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a - isdeeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprison- ment not exceeding six rionths or by both such fine and imprisonment ;very separates act or transaction in violation of this ordinance shall be deemed a. separate offense. SECTION M This ordinance shall be posted in three of the most public places in said district for a period of two weeks, at the end of which time it is a law for the government of the inhabitants of said district. ADOPTED BY the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa on the at day of Jules � 1940. m. or. BUCHAM H. L. C�,'TYN ATTEST: RAUH D. BOUXMT S. C. VM11103 ZAYLq.s N. LONG oun REY Cleric an x- lc o rr o ef the Board of Supervisors of the County . T. TIMA of Contra Costa, State of California. i 1 AFFIDAVIT 2 3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA } :ss. 4 COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA 5 JOHNSON A. THO 14.S, being first duly sworn, says 6 That he is the Secretary of the Central Fire Protection f 7 District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, 8and over the age of twenty-one (21) years; that on the 13th day 3 9 of July, 1940, affiant posted three (3) copies of the hereunto 10 attached ordinance at the following three (3) most public places 11 in said fire protection district, to-grit. 12 One at the U.S. Post Office at 1410 Dain Street, Walnut Creek,California; 13 One at the Office of Russell E. Stow, Constable 14 of the Third Township, Contra Costa County, California, which office is located at 1321 min 15 Street, Walnut Creek, California; and 16 One at the Central Fire protection District House at 1516 Bonanza Street, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa 1'7 County, California. 18 15 20 21 22 Subscribed and sworn to before me } this day of July, 1940. 23 . 24 t 25N n nd for the ounty 26 tof antra Costa, tate of California. 27 28 `' _ 0 CO 29i a`� f a 30 F 31 , �- ,w