§ 58-1. Powers and duties of chief of fire department.  


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  • The duties of the chief of the fire department shall be to enforce all the ordinances of the city passed for the protection of property, both private and public, from fires. He shall also have power to compel the removal of defective or dangerous flues and chimneys, and the power to remove and keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious persons lurking near the same, to compel any person present to aid in the extinguishment of such fire or the preservation of property exposed to the danger of the same, and to prevent goods from being purloined thereat, in addition to such powers and duties as prescribed by the fire prevention code adopted by article II of this chapter, this Code, and other ordinances of the city.

(Code 1971, § 12-1)