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CITY OF WATERLOO
BY-LAW NO. 96-87
BY-LAW TO LESSEN THE DANGER FROM FIRES.
NOW THEREFORE the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Waterloo
enacts as follows:
1. The Chief of the Fire Department shall examine carefully, whenever requested by the
Council to do so, or whenever he may deem it necessary or proper, all chimneys,
fireplaces, hearths, ovens, boilers, furnaces, stoves, steam pipes, stove pipes, funnels,
flues and all places where fires are made or kept, or where ashes are kept, or where
hay, straw, wood, lumber, shavings, or other inflammable matter is collected or kept,
or any buildings, fences, or erections, which may be a source of danger from fire to
adjacent property within the City; and he shall notify the owner, occupant or party
using the building or premises where any such thing may be a source of danger from
fire, to discontinue the keeping or use of or to remove the same, or shall see that
proper safeguards against fire are adopted.
2. It shall be the duty of the member of the Fire Department of the City to report to the
Chief the existence and location of anything which may be a source of danger from
fire, and which should be discontinued or removed in order to place the building or
premises where it is situated in a safe condition with regard to danger from fire, and
also to report in the same manner any other violation of this by-law which may come
under their notice; and it shall be the duty of the Chief to make an entry of every such
report in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and to take immediate action
thereupon.
3. The said Chief shall, inspect all Public Buildings, Churches, Halls, Theatres, Lodge
Rooms, Schools, Hospitals, Factories, Hotels and Wholesale and Retail places of
business. In the event premises are found to be in dangerous condition, he shall
report said findings to the Council.
4.1 All Public Buildings, Halls, Theatres, Lodge Rooms and Schools more than two
storeys in height shall be provided with one or more enclosed stairways, to ground
level to afford convenient and adequate means of escape from fire for the number of
persons that may at any time be assembled in the building above the first or ground
floor.
4.2 No obstruction shall be placed or permitted in any of the halls or passageways in any
such building, or in any Church, while it is occupied by a public assemblage.
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4.3 The Chief of the Fire Department or his Designate shall have the right to enter any
such building during any lecture, concert, performance, exhibition or other public
assemblage and at all reasonable times to ascertain whether the regulations herein
contained are obeyed, and to enforce this by-law.
5. No open burning except a barbecue for the purposes of cooking food shall be
permitted by any person without first having obtained permission from the Fire Chief
or Deputy Fire Chief for said City and the Ministry of the Environment, Air Quality
Branch, and in the event such permission is given, such open burning must be
attended by a person over the age of eighteen years and shall not be started before
sunrise and shall be extinguished not later than sunset. Notwithstanding anything
herein, no open burning except a barbecue for the purposes of cooking food shall be
permitted on any street, square or lane within the City of Waterloo or on any other
property in the City of Waterloo within thirty-five (35) feet of any building.
6. No person shall, either personally or by any one acting for him or by his instructions
or authority place or deposit any building material, or any other substance or object,
upon any street, lane or public place within the City, in such a position as would
obstruct or hinder free and ready access to any hydrant, or the complete and most
effective use of such hydrant, in case of fire or for any purpose for which such
hydrant may lawfully be used.
7. No barbecues or open burning of any kind shall be permitted on balconies of
residential buildings. Notwithstanding the foregoing, electric barbecues shall be
permitted on balconies of residential dwellings.
8. That By-law No. 91-37 and all other by-laws inconsistent with the provisions of this
by-law are hereby repealed.
9. Any person who contravenes any provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an
offence and upon conviction of an offence shall be subject to a fine as prescribed in
the Provincial Offences Act, R.S.O. 190, Chapter P-33 as amended.
10. This by-law shall come into force and effect on the date that it is finally passed.
PASSED this 15
th
day of July, 1996.
_SIGNED B.TURNBULL________________
MAYOR
__SIGNED L.AYERS ___________________
CITY CLERK