Section 80
SEC. 80. Chief of Fire Department.&mdashThere shall be a Chief of Fire Department who shall have the management and control of all matters relating to the administration, organization, government, discipline, and disposition of the fire forces. He shall receive a salary in accordance with the existing law. The Chief of Police shall act as the ex-officio Chief of Fire Department until the City Council, by ordinance, provided otherwise, at which the Chief of Fire Department shall be appointed as heretofore provided. He shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Issue supplementary regulations not incompatible with law or general regulations issued by the proper department head of the National Government in accordance with law, for the governance of the fire force. (b) Have charge of the fire-engine houses, the fire engines, hose trucks, hooks and ladders, trucks and other fire apparatus. (c) Have the full police powers in the vicinity of fires. (d) Have authority to remove or demolish any building or other property whenever it shall become necessary to prevent the spreading of fire or to protect adjacent property. (e) Have charge of the city telegraph, telephone and fire alarm service. (f) Investigate and report to the City Mayor upon the origin and cause of all fires occurring within the city. (g) Inspect all buildings erected or under construction or repair within the city and determine whether they provide sufficient protection against fire and comply with the ordinances relating thereto. (h) Have exclusive power, notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, to supervise and regulate the stringing, grounding, and installation of wires for all electrical connections with a view to avoiding conflagrations, interference with public traffic or safety or the necessary operation of the fire department. (i) Condemn all defective electrical installation and shall take the necessary steps to effect immediate corrective actions, informing the City Mayor of the action thus taken. (j) Supervise the manufacture, storage, and use of petroleum, gas, acetylene, gunpowder, and other highly combustible matter and explosives. (k) Deny the issuance of a permit for the construction or repair of buildings within the city unless the plans relative thereto have his approval. He shall have the power to alter or disapprove such plans as do not provide for adequate protection against the occurrence of fires. (l) Have such powers and perform such duties as may further be prescribed by law or ordinance.