Duties of Chief of Department of Fires and Building Inspection.
Section 45
SEC. 45. Duties of Chief of Department of Fires and Building Inspection.—There shall be under the Board, a Chief of the Department of Fires and Building Inspection. He shall have the management and control of all matters relating to the administration of the department as herein provided, and the organization, government, discipline, and disposition of the fire force; shall have charge of lire engine houses, fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, trucks, and other fire apparatus; shall have full police power in the vicinity of fires; shall have authority to remove any building or other property whenever it shall become necessary to prevent the spreading of fire or to protect adjacent property; shall investigate re and report upon the origin and cause of all fires occurring within the city. He shall inspect all buildings in the city under construction or repair, and see that ordinances relating to the construction of buildings within fire limits are observed; shall inspect all private and public buildings erected or to be erected within the city, to determine whether they comply with the building ordinances applicable to fire limit's or otherwise; shall have power to order, in accordance with ordinance, and subject to the approval of the Municipal Board, buildings dangerous to the public to he taken down or made secure; shall supervise and regulate the stringing, grounding, and insulation of wires for all electrical connections with a view to avoiding conflagrations or interfering with public traffic or safety, or the obstruction of the necessary operations of the fire department in putting out fires; shall supervise and regulate the manufacture, storage, sale, and use of petroleum, gas, acetyline, gunpowder, and other is highly combustible matter and explosives, and the arrangement and use of engines, boilers, forges, and other manufacturing and heating appliances in accordance with law or ordinances relating thereto; shall have charge of the city telegraph, telephone, and fire alarm services: and the laving of mains and connections for the purpose of supplying gas to the inhabitants of the city. DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENTS AND COLLECTIONS.