ORDINANCE No. 2180.

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS TO APPOINT TWO ADDITIONAL DETECTIVES FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF SAID CITY, AND FIXING THE SALARIES OF THE SAME.

Be it Ordained by the Council of the City of Oakland, as follows:

Section 1. The Board of Police and Fire Commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint two additional detectives for service in the Police Department of this city, such detectives to be under the direction and control of the Chief of Police, provided such detectives be appointed from members of the Police Force as now constituted.

Section 2. The salary of such detectives shall be at the rate of $125 per month.

Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect immediately.

(Approved January 13, 1903. Vol. 6, p. 37.)

ORDINANCE No. 2181.

AN ORDINANCE CONSENTING TO, DECLARING THE NECESSITY FOR, AND AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE POLICE FORCE OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND, EMPOWERING THE BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS TO ADD THERETO FOUR ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS, AND FIXING THEIR COMPENSATION

Be it Ordained by the Council of the City of Oakland, as follows:

Section 1. It is hereby declared to be necessary, and said Council hereby authorizes and empowers the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of the City of Oakland to increase the police force of said city by appointing and employing four additional police officers. Said police officers to receive the same compensation as is now received by police officers in said department.

Section 2. Inasmuch as the increased population and territory of said city renders immediate action necessary, this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval.

(Approved January 13, 1903. Vol. 6, p. 38.)

ORDINANCE No. 1956.

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND TO APPOINT AN ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICER ON THE REGULAR FORCE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE SAID CITY, AND AUTHORIZING THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF SAID DEPARTMENT TO APPOINT A CLERK FROM THE REGULAR POLICE FORCE OF THE SAID POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACT AS CLERK OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND.

Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Oakland, as follows:

Section 1. The Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of the City of Oakland is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint an additional Police Officer to serve in the regular Police Department in the said city.

Section 2. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and empowered to select from the regular Police Force of the City of Oakland a menber whose duty it shall be to act as Clerk to the Chief of Police and said Police Department, and perform such other duties as may be required of a regular police officer.

Section 3. All ordinances and resolutions conflicting with this ordinance are hereby repealed.

Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its approval.

(Approved Jan. 27, 1899. Vol. 5, p. 338.)

CHAPTER V.

ORDINANCES RELATING TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

[Note For ordinances prescribing the duties and fixing salaries of certain officers and employes of the Fire Department, see Chapter I ante.]

ORDINANCE No. 598.

AN ORDINANCE TO PROTECT THE FIRE HYDRANTS IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND.

The Council of the City of Oakland do Ordain as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to open any of the fire hydrants of the City of Oakland, except in case of fire or by permission of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department or the Water Company when necessary to repair their mains or said hydrants.

Section 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars, and in case said fine is not paid, to be imprisoned one day for every dollar of such fine.

Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval.

(Approved June 23, 1874. Vol. 2, p. 347.)

ORDINANCE No. 876.

AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING FIRES AND FIRE APPARATUS

The Council of the City of Oakland do Ordain as follows:

Section 1. No person shall obstruct any fire hydrant or cistern in such manner as to hide it from view at any point, or hinder free action thereto by an engine or hose carriage, or construct any area or other wall or thing so as to interfere in any manner with a hydrant below the level of the curb.

Section 2. It shall be the duty of the police at the time of fire to place ropes or guards across all streets, lanes and alleys on which shall be situated any building on fire, and at such other points as they shall deem expedient and necessary, and they shall prevent any and all persons, excepting owners and occupants of buildings endangered by the existing fire, and their employes, and excepting also officers of the Fire Department and firemen (who shall be known by their badge), officers of the City of Oakland and of the County of Alameda, the Fire Warden and such other persons as may have permission from an officer of the Fire Department, the Fire Warden or a police officer, from entering within the lines so designated by ropes or guards.

Any person or persons, other than those hereinbefore excepted, entering within the lines designated by said ropes or guards, and refusing to go outside of said lines when directed to do so by any police officer or officer of the Fire Department or the Fire Warden, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to punishment as provided in this ordinance.

Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to break through or attempt to break through such rope or guard or barrier, or to run over with any vehicle any fire hose used by the Fire Department at any fire.

Section 4. All fire engines, hose carriages, and other movable apparatus of the Fire Department and Fire Patrol shall have the paramount right of way through all the streets, lanes, alleys, places and courts of the City of Oakland when running to a fire, and all such apparatus shall take and keep the right side of the street unless the same be obstructed. All other vehicles, excepting street or steam cars, upon the approach of any engine, host cart or other apparatus of the Fire Department, shall forthwith give the right of way and remove to the side of the street opposite to the side of the street taken by such engine, hose cart or other apparatus of the Fire Department. All street cars in the vicinity of such engine, hose carriage or movable apparatus going to a fire shall retard or accelerate their speed as occasion may require, in order to give the apparatus of the Fire Department and the Fire Patrol the unobstructed use of the street for the time being.

Section 5. Any person or persons having the control of any vehicle, willfully or carelessly permitting the same to obstruct the progress of the apparatus of the Fire Department or Fire Patrol, going to a fire, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as provided in this ordinance.

Section 6. Any person or persons willfully injuring any engine house, hose, engine, hose carriage or other apparatus of the Fire Department of the City of Oakland shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as provided in this ordinance.

Section 7. Ány person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in case such fine be not paid, shall be imprisoned in the City Jail until the same is satisfied at the rate of one day for each two dollars of the fine imposed.

Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. (Approved January 5, 1881. Vol. 3, p. 31.)

ORDINANCE No. 1089.

AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT THE ERECTION OR MAINTENANCE OF DANGEROUS OBSTRUCTIONS OR SERIOUS OBSTACLES IN BUILDINGS WHICH MAY PREVENT INGRESS AND EGRESS OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN EXTINGUISHING FIRES WITHIN THE FIRE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND.

Be it Ordained by the Council of the City of Oakland, as follows:

Section 1. It is and shall be unlawful for any owner, agent, lessor, lessee or tenant, without a permit first obtained from the Board of Public Works, to erect or hang in or upon any building within the established fire limits of the City of Oakland, any door made wholly of metal, or of metal and wood, or to erect or hang in or upon any such building, any door composed of wood, or of wood, nails and glass, over two inches in thickness, and such metal, metal and wood, or wooden door, or wooden, nails and glass door, shall not without such permit be fastened by any bar or bars, prop or props, behind or across the same, and shall only be secured by a lock or locks, bolt or bolts.

Section 2. It is and shall be unlawful for the owner, agent, lessor, lessee or tenant of any building within the established fire limits of the City of Oakland to maintain or keep any door composed entirely of metal, or partly of metal and other material, in or upon any such building, or to keep or maintain any door composed of wood, or of wood, nails and glass, of more than two inches in thickness, in or upon such building or buildings for more than ten days after such owner, agent, lessor, lessee or tenant thereof, shall have received notice in writing signed by the Fire Warden, the Chief of Police or the Chief