The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-04

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jority OF said Commissioners, be dis
missed as fireman.
SECuoN 8. 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 a fire;
and any person so doing shall be guilty
Of a 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,
kindIe any FIRE, nor in any way auth
orize any fire to be made 10 any street,
road, lane. market-place or other high
way, or on any pier o. wharf in the city,
except for the purpose of boiling tar,
which fire shall not be more than fen
feet from the end of the pier or wharf;
and 90 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 a majority OF
the Board of Commissioners, may di-
rect any house or building to be pulled
down, blown up or otherwise demolished,
10 na
sary in order to prevent the spreading Of
fire.
SECTION IL. 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 Ere. 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
fully employed in aiding the extinguish-
ing of such fire, or in the preservation OF
property in the vicinity thereof.
SECTION 10. Any person cutting or in
any way wantonly or Intentionally inJur-
ing any portion of the FIRE apparatus
shall be deemed guilty of rnisdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined sum not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars.
SECTION IL. 1t shall be the duty of all
persons owning Or occupying premises
adjacent to fire to allow free access to
the same by the Fire Department, upon
the order OF the Chief Engineer or Fore
man of Engines, for the purpose OF OBJ
tanning water or using the fire apparatus
for the extinguishing OF any fire; and in
case such access is refused the Chief En-
| gineer or the person acting in his place
is hereby authorized forcibly TO enter
such premises for the purposes aforesaid !;
and no person shall refuse such free &C
cess Or in any way Distract the same.
SECT IN Is. All engines, carriages and
other movable apparatus of the Honolulu
Fire Department shall have the para
mount right of way through all streets,
lanes, alleys, highways and byways,
places and courts of the city and fire dis
tricts of Honolulu, when running to a
fire, and such apparatus, together with
all other vehicles thereto, excepting
street cars, shall take and s,eep the right
side of the street, unless the same be OBJ.
structed, and all street cars in the vicin.
ity OF any such apparatus going to fire
shall retard or accelerate their speed, a:
may be required, in order t.
give the apparatus of the Fire Depart
ment the unobstructed use OF the stree
for the time being.
SECTION Is. No person, or persons
} having the control of any vehicle shall
} wilfully or careiessly permit the same t.
obstruct the progress of the apparatus O
, the Honolulu Fire Department going Il
a fire.
SECTION II. Whoever wilfully, wanton
; ly or maliciously obstructs or retards tn
passage OF an engine, or any fire appar
atus of the Fire Department. while goin
to or at a fire, shall be deemed guilty c
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by a fine NO
2 exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars
SECTION Is. Every building occupie
q as a dwelling house, or as store-house
p or regular place of business in Homo
, lulu, shall be furnished with at least tw
? fire buckets, which shall be kept in goo
!. condition, ready for use, in conspcuou
o place, and upon which the name of tn
! owner shall be painted, provided that q
order to that effect in writing or printin
, shall first be given to occupants of an
such building by the Chief Engineer
! and all such occupants who shall receiv
q such order shall within five days there
! after, provide, furnish and maintain fiji
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