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Penalty.

Buildings may be demolished, when.

False alarms, pen alty for.

Endangering building, how punished.

Penalties, how recovered.

Parent or guardian responsible for minor.

Fire marshal, how

appointed and term of office.

Duties of fire marshal.

neys, heating appa

ratus, etc.

or command made upon him, or given to him, as aforesaid, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the City of Hartford a penalty of five dollars.

SEC. 23. Whenever it shall be necessary to demolish any building in said city, in order to stop the progress of fire, the chief engineer may cause the same to be done, having first obtained the consent of the mayor thereto, or, in the absence of the mayor, the consent of any fire commissioner.

SEC. 24. If any person shall knowingly give a false alarm of fire in said city, or shall knowingly proclaim that any fire is extinguished or out when it is not, such person shall forfeit and pay to the City of Hartford a penalty of twenty dollars. SEC. 25. If any person shall carry into any barn or hay loft, any lighted candle or lamp not enclosed in a lantern, or any lighted cigar or pipe, such person shall forfeit and pay to the City of Hartford a penalty of five dollars.

SEC. 26. All forfeitures and penalties incurred under the ordinances, relating to the fire department, except when otherwise provided, shall be recoverable by the attorney of the city before the City Court, in an action brought in the name of said city, for the use of the city treasury; and when any minor shall be guilty of any breach of this ordinance, the parent, guardian, or master of such minor shall be liable to pay the penalty therefor; and the same shall be recoverable of such parent, guardian, or master, by action brought against them in the manner aforesaid.

SEC. 27. At the annual meeting of the Court of Common Council, for the choice of city officers, there shall be chosen by concurrent vote a fire marshal, who shall hold his office for one year, and until his successor shall be chosen and qualified.

SEC. 28. It shall be the duty of the fire marshal, from time to time during the year, as occasion may require, to Shall examine chim- examine, throughout said city, the fire-places, chimneys, heating and cooking apparatus and pipes connected therewith, of all houses, out-houses, and buildings in said city, also all places where ashes are kept, and upon finding any of them defective or dangerous, shall order such to be cleaned,

of, when.

altered, or amended, as may seem to him the occasion requires. And in case any heating or cooking apparatus, or the pipes connected therewith, are erected or set up in such places as to unreasonably endanger said city to the perils of fire, and the same cannot be altered so as to be rendered May order removal reasonably safe, said fire marshal shall order all such apparatus to be removed; and all orders, in respect to any of the particulars in this section mentioned, shall be given in the manner following, viz.: The fire marshal shall specify in Orders to be in writing the thing to be done, and a reasonable time within. which the order must be complied with, and shall leave a true copy of said order, signed by him, in the hands of the person upon whom said order is made; or if he or she be absent, at his or her place of abode.

writing, and how served.

order scuttle, when.

SEC. 29. In all cases in which said fire marshal shall judge Fire marshal may it necessary for the safety of said city from fire, that a scuttle should be made to a dwelling-house, or any other building in said city, he shall give an order in writing, in the manner Orders, how given. specified in the twenty-eighth section of this ordinance, to the proprietor or proprietors of said dwelling-house or building, directing that a scuttle, with proper steps or stairs leading to the same, be made within such time as shall be limited in said order.

etc., may be removed, when.

SEC. 30. In all cases in which shavings, straw, or other Shavings, straw, combustible material shall be suffered to be or remain in or near any buildings in said city, in such manner as to expose said city to danger from fire, it shall be the duty of the fire marshal to give a written order, in the manner specified in Order, how made. the twenty-eighth section of this ordinance, to the person or persons occupying or owning the place where such shavings, straw, or combustible materials may be, to remove the same within such time as shall be specified in said order.

examine buildings and other places.

SEC. 31. The fire marshal shall have power, at all reasona- Shall have power to ble times, and it shall be his duty, to enter into and examine all buildings and lots where lumber and other combustible materials are stored, in said city, to inspect places where fire is used, to direct in what manner ashes and matches shall be kept, and it shall be his duty to examine into any and all

No person shall erect or place stove, fur

ing or heating appa ratus in certain houses, except by

consent of fire marshal or common council.

Penalty.

violations of any ordinance within the scope of his duty, and report the same to the city attorney for prosecution.

SEC. 32. Every person who shall erect or place within any aer, or other cook building within the limits of the City of Hartford, except such as have their outer walls composed wholly of iron, brick, stone, or mortar, any chimney, stove, fire-place, furnace, or other apparatus, for heating or cooking, without the consent of the fire marshal, or contrary to the direction of the Court of Common Council, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than thirty dollars, for the use of the city treasury, for every month that the same shall remain, either without the consent of the said fire marshal, or contrary to the direction of the Court of Common Council, and said fire marshal, before giving his consent, shall see that such cooking or heating apparatus be safely placed, and that the pipes thereof to conduct the heat and the smoke be set and run in a secure manner so as not to endanger the building in which the same is placed, or any building or buildings adjoining or adjacent thereto.

Consent not to be

given till apparatus be safely arranged.

Consent of council necessary for the erection of buildings.

without consent of council, how punished.

SEC. 33. Every person who shall erect, add to, move or place any dwelling house, shop, store, barn, or other building, except privies, in this city, without the consent of the Court of Common Council, as to the mode of said erection or addiErection of building tion, or materials used or without the consent of said Court of Common Council to such removal, or in any manner contrary to the ordinances of said city, or the allowance or direction of the Court of Common Council, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars to the City of Hartford for the use of the city treasury, and the further sum of not more Penalty if building than fifty dollars for every week that such building shall remain without such permission; and it is hereby provided that the continuance of any such building without such permission, shall for each week after such act be deemed a separate and single offence.

remain without

permission.

build shall specify.

What petitions to SEC. 34. All petitions to the Court of Common Council. relating to buildings, shall specify the material of which the outer walls and the outer covering of the roof of said building are to be composed, the street upon which, and the dis

fire department committee.

tance from the street at which the said building is to be placed, and all such petitions shall be referred to the com- Shall be referred to mittee of the fire department, who shall enquire into the matters asked for in said petitions, and make their report to the Court of Common Council, who may grant such petitions under such restrictions as they may think proper.

in case of incendiary fires, and how to

proceed.

fire marshal.

SEC. 35. It shall be the duty of the fire marshal to attend Duty of fire marshal at every fire occurring in said city; and when he shall have any reason to believe that any fire may have been incendiary in its origin, it shall be his duty to inquire into the cause of said fire, in behalf of said city, and to proceed in said inquiry in the manner provided by the statutes of this state in such case provided. No fee shall be paid said fire marshal for his No fees to be paid said inquiry and investigation on behalf of said city into the cause of any such fire, but his salary shall be in lieu thereof, and in lieu of any other services devolved upon him by virtue of this ordinance, or any other ordinance, imposing duties upon him. All witness fees, service of subpoenas, and cash advances arising out of the investigation into the cause of Cash advances to be any fire, shall be paid from the treasury of said city; and it treasury. shall be the duty of said fire marshal to forward the amount of the same to the Court of Common Council for payment, Same, how paid. accompanied by his certificate that said expenses were justly incurred in the prosecution of said investigation.

in

SEC. 36. It shall be the duty of every person to fulfill all and every written order of the fire marshal, issued by him conformity with any ordinance now existing or which shall hereafter be enacted.

paid from city

The duty of every

person to obey written orders of

fire marshal.

SEC. 37. If any person or persons shall, contrary to the Penalty on failure. ordinances of the city, neglect or refuse to comply with any such order of the fire marshal, or shall hinder or obstruct the fire marshal in the discharge of any of his duties, such person or persons shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence, and the same shall be deemed a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted as such before the Police Court like other offences.

keep record.

SEC. 38. It shall be the duty of the fire marshal to keep a Fire marshal shall record book, wherein he shall record all orders by him made,

and all written complaints made to him under this ordinance, and all examinations made by him pursuant to the provisions Shall make annual hereof, and to make an annual report to the Court of Common Council of the services performed by him during the year as said fire marshal.

report.

Bonds of city

officers, how payable

Conditions of bond.

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Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council of the City of
Hartford:

SECTION 1. All bonds of city officers shall be payable to and how executed, the City of Hartford, and shall be executed by the principal and two sufficient sureties to the approbation of the mayor. Such bonds shall be conditioned on the faithful performance by the principal of all his official duties due to the City of Hartford by virtue of his appointment, and upon his saving the city from all loss, cost, or damage, by reason of his misfeasance in office, and upon his rendering a true account of all his money dealings for, in behalf of, and with said city, and upon his just and true payment to the city treasurer of all moneys in his hands at any time as an officer or agent of the city, for and during the entire period for which he shall remain in his office by appointment or reëlection. Such bonds shall be given before any such officer shall enter upon his official duties or continuance longer in the exercise thereof.

On re-election no new bond required.

Bonds, when executed.

Penalties of bonds.

SEC. 2.

The penalties of the bonds required of the several city officers shall be respectively as follows: Of the city

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