Legislation Details

File #: ORD-1909:002    Version: 1 Name: Declaring false alarms to be a misdemeanor and setting fines
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/1/1909 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/1/1909
Title: ORDINANCE DECLARING IT A MISDEMEANOR TO REPORT A FALSE ALARM TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND SETTING FINES
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ORDINANCE DECLARING IT A MISDEMEANOR TO REPORT A FALSE ALARM TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND SETTING FINES

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Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously or recklessly to send in, give in, report, by telephone or otherwise, any false alarm of fire to the Fire Department; and any person convicted thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished therefor by a fine in any sum not less than Ten Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars.

 

All telephone companies, agents, officers and employees shall keep a record of the telephone over which each alarm of fire is turned in to the Department, or reported to the Department. A failure to keep such record shall constitute a misdemeanor and the telephone company so failing to keep such record shall be fined in any sum not less than Ten Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars.

 

Passed and approved 21st day of November, 1904.