ORDINANCE NO. 288
An Ordinance designating offenses at fires, injury or destruction of fire [illegible] apparatus, providing penalties for same and conferring police power on members of the fire department at fires.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF TROY, KANSAS:
Section 1. Every person at or near a fire, who conducts himself in a disorderly manner, or neglects or refuses to obey promptly any proper order of the fire chief or his assistants, or who shall resist, obstruct, hinder or abuse any officer of the fire department, or any fireman in the discharge of his duty, shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than Five Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars for each offense; and any of the aforesaid officers or any police officer may forthwith arrest without a warrant and take to the police station any person so offending.
Section 2. Whenever any hose of the fire department is laid upon any street, avenue, alley, bridge or vacant lot, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle over the same; provided that this shall not apply to any [illegible] apparatus or vehicle belonging to the fire department.
Section 3. No person shall place or cause to be placed upon or about any fire hydrant, any obstruction of any character whatsoever, in a manner to obstruct, hinder or delay the fire department in the performance of its duty in case of a fire in the vicinity; nor shall any person park or cause to be parked any automobile, wagon or other vehicle within fifteen feet of any fire hydrant at any time.
Section 4. No person shall willfully and without proper authority, remove, take away, keep or conceal any tool, appliance, or other article belonging to any fire apparatus or fire department, or anything used in any way by the fire department; and any person who shall willfully injure in any manner any hose, fire engine or other apparatus, or any building containing the same, belonging to the City of Troy, shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than Twenty-Five Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars for each offense.
Section 5. Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this ordinance, for which no penalty is hereinbefore named, or who shall refuse or neglect to comply with any directions of the Fire Chief or his assistants, given in accordance therewith, shall upon conviction be fined not less than Ten Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars for each offense.
Section 6. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication in the Kansas Chief.
Passed and approved this 12 day of March, 1933.
Attest: Glenn L. Hackney, City Clerk
Approved: Roy V. VanBebber, Mayor
(SEAL)