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

al Government of the Hawaiian
Islands:
SECTION /. There shall be Fire De-
partment for the city OF Honolulu, which
shall consist of a 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
shah 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 Conn
missioner for cause, and may fill all
vacancies in the Board 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
the 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 TO 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
ali the members OF the entire depart
ment; and it shall be his duty to cause
the several engines and apparatus to be
located in the most advantageous situa-
tons, and d. worked for the effectual
distinguishing of fires. He may, with the
approval OF the Board of Commissioners,
grant the custody and use of fire-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 CT 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 ire-engines,
carriages, apparatus and property OF the
department, and the standing and con,
dition of the companies. When any oil
said fre-engines shall require to be re.
paired, the Chief Engineer shall cause
the same to be well and sufficiently re.
paired.
SECTION 5. In case the Chief Engi
neer shall be absent from a 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 keeE
record OF the names of occupants of tn.
houses or other buildings where he shall
observe any violation of the provision
of this law.
SECTION 5. 1t shall be the duty of tn
Chief Engineer once every three months
and IS much oftener as he may deem
proper, to examine the dwelling houses
stores, places of business and othe
buildings in the respective districts, TO
the purpose of ascertaining any violation
of this law and also to examine the fir
places, hearths, chimneys, stoves an
stove-pipes in the respective district:
and upon finding any of them defectiv
or dangerous, he shall direct the owne
or occupants of said premises by write
or printed notice, to alter, remove c
amend the same, and in case of neglect
ing to do so the party offending shall b
guilty of a misdemeanor and punishe
on conviction as hereinafter provided
The Chief Engineer shall once in ever
three months, and as much oftener a
may be necessary, make full report OF a
matters relating to his duties to th
Board Of Commissioners, and also sha
report to the Minister of the Interio
each week any violations of the law
relating to fire-proof buildings
SECTION 6. 1t shall be the duty of a
firemen, whenever any fire shall bres
out in the city, to repair Immediately
said fire with their respective engine
hose, carriages, hooks, ladders, al
other apparatus, and there to work al
manage such fire engines and other Fl
implements with all their skill al
power as the Chief Engineer may diret
and they shall not remove therefro
without the permission OF the Chi
Engineer.
SECTION Z. Ii any fireman should ne
leet to attend any fire, or leave /
engine or other apparatus while at Al