The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-03-21

Board OF Commissioners, and also shall
report to the Minister OF the interior
each week any violations OF the laws
relating to ire-proot buildings.
SECTION 6. 1t shall be the duty OF al
iremen, whenever any FIRE shall breal
out in the city, to repair Immediately tt
said fire with their respective engines
hose, carriages, hooks, ladders, anC
other apparatus, and there to work and
manage such fire engines and other fire
implements with all their skill and
power as the Chief Engineer may direct.
and they shall not remove therefrom
without the permission OF the Chief
Engineer.
SECTION :. Ii any fireman should neg.
iect to attend any fire, or leave his
engine or other apparatus while at any
fire without permission, or shall neglect
to DO his duty on such occasion without
reasonable excuse, he shall, for every
such default, pay such penalty as the
majority of the Board OF Commissioners
shall fix; and may, by vote of the ma
jority OF said Commissioners, be dis
missed as a fireman.
SECTION s. No person or persons shall
break through, or attempt to break
through, any blockade established by
the Department, or run over with any
vehicle the line of hose in use at fire;
and any person so doing shall be guilty
OF misdemeanor and be subject to fine
OF not more than two hundred and fifty
dollars.
SECTION 9. No person shall, unless
by permission Of the Chief Engineer,
kindle any fire, nor in any way auth
orize any fire to be made in any street,
road, lane, market-place or other high
way, or on any pier or wharf in the city,
except for the purpose of boiling tar,
which fire shall not be more than ten
feet from the end OF the pier or wharf;
and 10 person shall kindle or light, or
cause to be lighted, any rubbish or any
bonfire in any place whatsoever within
radius OF one mile of the present site OF
the Bell Tower Of Honolulu without the
permit i'll writing OF the Chief Engineer.
SECTION 10. The Chief Engineer, by
and with the approval Of majority Of
the Board OF Commissioners, may di-
rect any house or building to be pulled
down, blown up or otherwise demolished,
when they deem the same to be neces-
sary in order to prevent the spreading OF
a fire.
SECTION II. The Chief Engineer may,
during the continuance of fire, require
assistance from the persons present for
extinguishing the same, and for remov-
ing furniture, goods, merchandise and
property from building on fire or in
danger thereof, and may appoint guards
to secure the same. He may also re-
quire assistance for pulling down or de-
molishing a house or building when he
judges it necessary, and may suppress all
tumults and disorders at such FIRE. All
persons at fire shall obey the orders OF
the Chief Engineer.
SECTION u. During the prevalence of
a fire it shall be lawful for the Chief En-
gineer, the foremen OF companies, the
Marshal or his deputies, to remove or
cause to be removed and kept away from
the vicinity of such fire, by force if adj
visable, all idle and suspicious persons,
and all persons in their judgment not fit |
to be employed, or not actually and use
July employed in aiding the extinguish-
ing OF such fire, or in the preservation OF |
in the vicinity thereof.
SECTION Is. Any person cutting or in |
any way wantonly or Intentionally injur-
ing any portion OF the fire apparatus
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
lined sum not exceeding two hundred
md fifty dollars.
SECTION "A. 1t shall be the duty of all
persons owning or occupying premises
adjacent to a fire to allow free access to
he same by the Fire Department, upon
he order OF the Chief Engineer or Fore
nan OF Engines, for the purpose OF OBJ
aiming water or using the fire apparatus
or the extinguishing OF any fire; and in
ase such access is refused the Chief En-
,ineer or the person acting in his place
S hereby authorized forcibly to enter
UGH premises for the purposes aforesaid
nd no person shall refuse such free &C.
ess or in any way obstruct the same.
SECTION Is. All engines, carriages and
ther movable apparatus of the Honolulu
ire Department shall have the para
Mount right of way through all streets,
anes, alleys, highways and byways,
laces and courts of the city and fire dis
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