Ordinance

Article XIII – Fire and Life Safety

Section 1. Prohibitions

1. No person shall disable, discharge, or activate any portable or fixed fire extinguishing system or device or any life safety warning system, except as necessary during emergencies, authorized maintenance, drills, or prescribed testing.

2. No person shall silence or disable a life safety warning system except at the official direction of an employee of the Division of Public Safety and Security or applicable campus safety department, fire department in charge of the scene, the applicable University Fire Marshal or their designee, or university maintenance personnel authorized to service fire alarm systems.

3. No person shall remove, tamper with, or otherwise disturb any fire hydrant, fire detection device or system, and/or any life safety alarm system, fire suppression system, or other fire appliance except for the purpose of extinguishing a fire, training purposes, recharging, making necessary repairs, or when otherwise approved.

4. No person shall remove, unlock, destroy, tamper with, or otherwise vandalize in any manner, locks, gates, doors, barricades, chains, enclosures, signs, tags, or seals that have been installed on life safety or fire protection systems or equipment.

5. No person shall willfully allow overcrowding or admittance of any persons beyond the occupant capacity of any building, structure, or portion thereof.

6. No persons shall make use of open flames, flame effects, incense, or any pyrotechnic device before a proximate audience without prior approval in writing by the applicable University Fire Marshal or their designee.

7. No person shall obstruct, lock, affix chains or deadbolts, or block doors that provide egress from any occupied building or portion thereof without prior approval in writing by the applicable University Fire Marshal or their designee.

8. No person shall willfully tamper with, remove from its receiver or disconnect an emergency blue light phone or button or red box emergency phone or button.

9. No person shall intentionally allow hazardous materials as defined by the Michigan Part 5 Rules – Spillage of Oil and Polluting Materials rules to be discharged inside facilities, to the environment, or into a sanitary or storm water system.

10. No person shall intentionally ship any hazardous material as defined by the US Department of Transportation unless that person has been properly trained to ship such material.

Section 2. Violation Penalty

A violation of this Article XIII Section 1(a) through 1(g) is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punishable by imprisonment of not to exceed ninety days and/or a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or both. A violation of this Article XIII Section 1(h) through 1(j) shall constitute a civil infraction and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.