(a) No person shall offer for sale, sell, install or cause to be installed in the city any fire warning system which is not approved by the chief of the fire department and the building official, nor shall any person install or cause to be installed any such system except in a manner approved by the chief of the fire department and the building official.

(b) The electrical review board is hereby designated as the appeals board from rulings or decisions under this section of the chief of the fire department and/or the building official.

(c) A violation of this section shall constitute a Class 3 misdemeanor. (Code 1964, §§ 12-24--12-26)

(a) It shall be unlawful, without the authority of the officer in command, for any person to drive a vehicle through the streets in which the fire department is assembled for the purpose of extinguishing a fire.

(b) A violation of this section shall constitute a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). (Code 1964, § 12-19)

(a) Whenever any officer or member of the fire department shall find in any building or upon any premises or other place combustible or explosive matter or dangerous accumulation of rubbish or oily waste, ashes in combustible receptacles, unnecessary accumulation of wastepaper, boxes, shavings or any other highly inflammable materials especially liable to fire, and which is so situated as to endanger property, or shall find obstructions to or on fire escapes, stairs, passageways, doors or windows, liable to interfere with the operation of the fire department or egress of occupants in case of fire, or fire doors or shutters obstructed or in poor repair or interior fire-fighting equipment not in serviceable condition, he shall order the same to be removed or remedied and such order shall forthwith be complied with by the owner or occupant of such premises or building, subject to appeal within twenty-four (24) hours to the city council, which shall, within ten (10) days, review such order and file its decision thereon, and unless the order is revoked or modified, it shall remain in full force and be obeyed by such owner or occupant.

(b) Service of any order under this section shall be made upon the occupant of the premises to whom it is directed, by either delivering a true copy of same to such occupant personally or by delivering the same to and leaving it with any person in charge of the premises, or in case no such person is found upon the premises, by affixing a copy thereof in a conspicuous place on the door to the entrance of the premises. Whenever it may be necessary to serve such an order upon the owner of the premises, such order may be served either by delivering to and leaving with such owner a true copy of the order, or if such owner is absent from the jurisdiction of the officer making the order, by mailing such copy to the owner's last-known post-office address.

(c) Any owner or occupant failing to comply with an order served as provided in this section within ten (10) days after the appeal has been determined, or if no appeal is taken, within ten (10) days after the service of the order, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. (Code 1964, §§ 12-2--12-4)

(a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the fire prevention code adopted by this article, or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the city manager or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein, shall severally, for each and every such violation and noncompliance, respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten (10) days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.

(b) The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions. (Code 1964, § 12-10)

(a) "Automobile graveyard" means any lot or place which is exposed to the weather and upon which more than five motor vehicles of any kind, incapable of being operated, and which it would not be economically practical to make operative, are placed, located or found.

(b) "Clean burning waste" means waste which does not produce dense smoke when burned and is not prohibited to be burned under this ordinance.

(c) "Construction waste" means solid waste which is produced or generated during construction of structures. Construction waste consists of lumber, wire, sheetrock, broken brick, shingles, glass, pipes, concrete, and metal and plastics if the metal or plastics are a part of the materials of construction or empty containers for such materials. Paints, coatings, solvents, asbestos, any liquid, compressed gases of semi-liquids, and garbage are not construction wastes and the disposal of such materials must be in accordance with the regulations of the Virginia Waste Management Board.

(d) "Debris waste" means stumps, wood, brush, and leaves from land clearing operations.

(e) "Demolition waste" means that solid waste which is produced by the destruction of structures and their foundations and includes the same materials as construction waste.

(f) "Garbage" means rotting animal and vegetable matter accumulated by a household in the course of ordinary day to day living.

(g) "Hazardous waste" means refuse or combination of refuse which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:

(h) "Household refuse" means waste material and trash normally accumulated by a household in the course or ordinary day to day living.

(i) "Industrial waste" means all waste generated on the premises of manufacturing and industrial operations such as, but not limited to, those carried on in factories, processing plants, refineries, slaughter houses, and steel mills.

(j) "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term shall includes garbage dumps and sanitary fills.

(k) "Landfill" means a sanitary landfill, an industrial waste landfill, or a construction / demolition / debris landfill. See Solid Waste Management Regulations (VR 672-20-10) for further definitions of these terms.

(l) "Local landfill" means any landfill located within the jurisdiction of a local government.

(m) "Open burning" means the burning of any matter in such a manner that the products resulting from combustion are emitted directly into the atmosphere without passing through a stack, duct or chimney.

(n) "Open pit incinerator" means a device used to burn waste for the primary purpose of reducing the volume by removing combustible matter. Such devices function by directing a curtain of air at an angle across the top of a trench or similarly enclosed space, thus reducing the amount of combustion byproducts emitted into the atmosphere. The term also includes trench burners, air curtain destructors and over draft incinerators.

(o) "Refuse" means trash, rubbish, garbage and other forms of solid or liquid waste, including but not limited to, wastes resulting from residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, institutional, trade, construction, land clearing, forest management and emergency operations.

(p) "Salvage operations" means any operation consisting of a business, trade or industry participating in salvaging or reclaiming any product of material, such as, but not limited to, reprocessing o used motor oils, metals, chemicals, shipping containers or drums, and specifically including automobile graveyards and junkyards.

(q) "Sanitary landfill" means an engineering land burial facility for the disposal of household waste which is so located, designed, constructed, and operated to contain and isolate the waste so that it does not pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment. A sanitary landfill may also receive other types of solid wastes, such as commercial solid waste, nonhazardous sludge, hazardous waste from conditionally exempt small quantity generators, and nonhazardous industrial solid waste. See Solid Waste Management Regulations (VR 672-20-10) for further definitions of these terms.

(r) "Smoke" means small gas-borne particulate matter consisting mostly, but not exclusively, of carbon, ash and other material in concentrations sufficient to form a visible plume.

(s) "Special incineration device" means a pit incinerator, conical or teepee burner, or any other device specifically designed to provide good combustion performance.

(a) No owner or other person shall cause or permit open burning or the use of a special incineration device for disposal of refuse except as provided in this ordinance.

(b) No owner or other person shall cause or permit open burning or the use of a special incineration device for disposal of rubber tires, asphaltic materials, crankcase oil, impregnated wood or other rubber or petroleum based materials except when conducting bona fide fire fighting instruction at fire fighting training schools having permanent facilities.

(c) No owner or other person shall cause or permit open burning or the use of a special incineration device for disposal of hazardous waste of containers for such materials.

(d) No owner or other person shall cause or permit open burning or the use of a special incineration device for the purpose of a salvage operation or for the disposal of commercial / industrial waste.

(e) Open burning or the use of special incineration devices permitted under the provisions of this ordinance does not exempt or excuse any owner or other person from the consequences, liability, damages or injuries which may result from such conduct; nor does it excuse or exempt any owner or other person from complying with other applicable laws, ordinances, regulations and orders of the governmental entities having jurisdiction, even though the open burning is conducted in compliance with this ordinance. In this regard special attention should be directed to §  10.1-1142 of the Forest Fire Law of Virginia, the regulations of the Virginia Waste Management Board, and the State Air Pollution Control Board's Regulations for the Control and Abatement of Air Pollution.

(f) Upon declaration of an alert, warning or emergency state of an air pollution episode as described in Part VII of the Regulations for the Control and Abatement of Air Pollution of when deemed advisable by the State Air Pollution Control Board to prevent a hazard to, or an unreasonable burden upon, public health or welfare, no owner or other person shall cause or permit open burning or use of a special incineration device; and in any process burning or use of special incineration devices shall be immediately terminated in the designated air quality control region.

(a) open burning for training and instruction of government and public fire fighters under the supervision of the designated official and industrial in-house fire fighting personnel;

(b) open burning for camp fires or other fires that are used solely for recreational purposes, for ceremonial occasions, for outdoor noncommercial preparation of good, and for warming of outdoor workers;

(c) open burning for the destruction of any combustible liquid or gaseous material by burning in a flare or flare stack;

(d) open burning for forest management and agriculture practices approved by the State Air Pollution Control Board; and

(e) open burning for the destruction of classified military documents.

(a) Any violation of this ordinance is punishable as a Class I misdemeanor.

(b) Each separate incident may be considered a new violation.