§ 110-45. Public fire hydrants.

(a)

The public works department shall install or approve the installation, on any public or private street, highway or thoroughfare, a fire hydrant meeting city and industry standards, with an approved pipe and fittings to the public works department's street main, provided the size of the street main and the surrounding distributing system and the available pressure on the street main and the surrounding distributing system is, in the discretion of the public works department, sufficient to enable the giving of proper service at the fire hydrant under normal and ordinary conditions.

(b)

All fire hydrants shall be used for fire protection purposes exclusively. All use of fire hydrants for sprinkling, sewer flushing, watering, filling of carts or receptacles and any other use of fire hydrants other than for strictly fire protection, meaning thereby extinguishing of fires or wetting down surrounding properties during a fire to prevent its spreading, is prohibited unless any such other use is permitted by the public works department and evidenced by a written permit signed by the director of public works, which permit shall be exhibited to any employee of the public works department.

(c)

Permits for use of water from fire hydrants for any purpose other than for fire protection shall not be granted by the public works department except in cases where such use is deemed by the public works department to be urgent and other means of obtaining water are not available, but all permits so granted shall be revocable at the pleasure or discretion of the public works department in every instance and without regard or reference to any terms or provisions in such permits to the contrary notwithstanding.

(Code 1964, § 45-16)

Cross reference

Fire prevention and protection, ch. 50.