The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-01
BY AUTHORITY
ACT II.
An Act to Create the Fire
Department of the City
of Honolulu.

BE II ENACTED by the Executive and
Advisory Councils OF the Provision
al Government OF the Hawaiian
Islands:
SECTION L. There shall be Fire De-
partment for the city OF Honolulu, which
shall consist OF Board OF Commits
sioners, consisting of three members,
who shall be appointed by the Minister
of the Interior with the consent Of the
Executive Council, and commissioned
for two years; and who shall! serve
without pay a Chief Engineer, who
shall be appointed by the Board OF Com
missioners. There shall be three or
more fire companies under pay, in the
discretion of the Board OF Commits
sioners, and such other volunteer COM
panies as the Commissioners shall deem
fit. The general care and supervision OF
the department shall be under the direc-
ton of the Board OF Commissioners, who
shall also have power to issue such
general rules and regulations for the
government of the department as they
shall deem necessary. The Minister of
the Interior, with the consent OF the Ex-
ecutive Council, may remove any Com
missioner for cause, and may fill all
vacancies in theBoard of Commissioners.
SECTION 2. The Chief Engineer shall
have the care, control and custody of the
property of the Fire Department, and
shall be responsible to the Board of
Commissioners for the same; and he
shall also, by and with the approval of
tie Board of Commissioners, make all
expenditures of moneys appropriated for
the Honolulu Fire Department; and he
shall not contract any debts on behalf of
the department, or dispose of any pro-
perty belonging 10 the same without the
consent of the Board of Commissioners
In all cases of fire he shall have the sole
and absolute control and command over
ment; and it shall be his duty to cause
the several engines and apparatus to be
located in the most advantageous situa-
tons, and duly worked for the effectual
extinguishing of fires. He may, with the
approval of the Board of Commissioners,
grant the custody and use of ire-engines,
fire buckets, and other fire apparatus
belonging to the Government, to such
firemen as he may deem proper, and
assume the control of the same with said
Commissioners approval. He shall, as
often as once month, examine into the
condition OF the fire engines, houses, fire
buckets and other fire apparatus, and
shall every six months report and return
to the Board of Commissioners the ex-
penses OF the Fire Department for such
period, the number OF fires which have
occurred during the period, with the
names OF owners and occupants OF the
premises or property damaged or de-
stroyed; the cause or origin of the fire,
If known, and the amount of loss or
damage and OF the insurance on the pro-
perty, the condition OF the fre-engines,
carriages, apparatus and property OF the
department, and the standing and con-
dition of the companies. When any of
said ire-engines shall require to be re-
paired, the Chief Engineer shall cause
the same to be we'll and sufficiently re-
paired.
SECTION 3. In case the Chief Engi-
neer shall be absent from fire, the
senior foreman shall assume his duties.
SECTION 4. The Chief Engineer shall
divide the City of Honolulu into fire dis
tricts and report their boundaries to the
Board of Commissioners, and shall keep
record OF the names of occupants of the
houses or other buildings where he shall
observe any violation OF the provisions
of this law.
SECTION 8. 1t shall be the duty orthe
Chief Engineer once every three months,
and as much oftener as he may deem
proper, to examine the dwelling houses,
stores, places of business and other
buildings in the respective districts, for
the purpose of ascertaining any violation
of this law and also to examine the fire
places, hearths, chimneys, stoves and
stove-pipes in the respective districts,
and upon finding any of them defective
or dangerous, he shall direct the owner
or occupants of said premises by written
or printed notice, to alter, remove Oh
amend the same, and in case of neglect.
ing to do SO the party offending shall be
guilty OF misdemeanor and punished
ON conviction as hereinafter provided
The Chief Engineer shall once in every
three months, and as much oitener as
may be necessary, make full report of al
matters relating to his duties to the
Board OF Commissioners, and also shall
report to the Minister of the Interio
each week any violations of the law.
relating to fire-proof buildings
SFCTIoN 6. 1t shall be the duty of al
firemen, whenever any fire shall breal
out in the city, to repair Immediately t
eaid fire with their respective engines
hose, carriages, hooks, ladders, AM
other apparatus, and there to work an
manage such fire engines and other fir
implements with all their skill an
power as the Chief Engineer may direct
and they shall not remove therefror
without the permission of the Chic
Engineer.