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are used in the Fire Prevention Code they shall be held to mean the Fire Marshal. Section 4. The Fire Prevention Ordinance No. 24 is changed so as to add the following provisions. hereby amended and A. Fire Marshal shall survey premises and specify equipment to be provided. (1) The Fire Marshal shall survey each commercial and industrial establishment, mercantile, education, hospital, and institutional occupancy, place of assembly, hotel, multi -family house, and trailer camp; and he shall specify suitable fire detecting devices or extinguishing appliances which shall be provided in or near boiler rooms, kitchens of restaurants, clubs and like establishments, storage rooms involving considerable combustible material, rooms in which hazardous manufacturing processes are involved, repair garages, and other places of a generally hazardous nature. (2) Such devices or appliances may consist of automatic fire alarm systems, automatic sprinkler or water spray systems, standpipe and hose, fixed or portable fire extinguishers of a type suitable for the probable class of fire, or suitable asbestos blankets, manual or automatic covers, or carbon dioxide or other special fire extinguishing systems. In special hazardous processes or storage, appliances of more than one type, or special systems may be required. B. Maintenance of equipment. Sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, fire alarm systems, and other fire protective or extinguishing systems or appliances which have been installed in compliance with any permit or order, or because of any law or ordinance, shall be maintained in operative condition at all times; and it shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant to reduce the effectiveness of the protection so required; except this shall not prohibit the owner or occupant from temporarily reducing or discontinuing the protection where necessary to make tests, repairs, alterations or additions. The Fire Marshal shall be notified before such tests, repairs, alterations, or additions are started unless the work is to be continuous until completion. C. Failure to install fire extinguishing equipment. Failure to install or •rovide orderea-by ire 'ars a and to maintain it in operative condition at all times, shall be condsidered a violation punishable as indicated hereinafter in this ordinance. Disregard of such orders shall constitute sufficient basis for the revoking of any permit held. D. Tampering with fire extinguishers. (1) No person shall tamper, meddle, or interfere in any way with any fire extinguisher or part thereof, or hose connected therewith; or with any inside or outside standpipe or its connection or hose connected therewith, in or upon any public building; or empty, injure, break, or destroy the extinguisher or standpipe, or the machinery, hose, fixtures, or connections of said extinguisher or standpipe.