San Mateo Municipal Code Ch. 2.36 Fire Department

For provisions relating to burning outside, see Chapter 10.24.

For provisions relating to combustible containers, see Chapter 7.32.

For provisions relating to fire prevention, see Chapter 10.16.

For provisions relating to fireworks, see Chapter 10.28.

For provisions relating to fire protection facilities, see Chapter 23.32.

For provisions relating to building fire standards, see Chapter 23.28.

The fire department shall consist of a chief of the fire department and such officers and employees as may from time to time be appointed in conformity with the merit system provisions codified in Chapter 2.57.

prior code § 10.53

Each member of the fire department shall have such powers as are now or may hereafter be conferred by State law upon members of fire departments within general law cities.

Prior code § 10.53

There is established within the fire department, a bureau of fire protection and life safety. The purpose of the bureau of fire protection and life safety is to provide an organization for investigation of the cause, origin and circumstances of fires, to devise ways and means for fire prevention, and to assist the Fire Chief in the administration and enforcement of the Uniform Fire Code.

prior code § 80.01

The division shall be composed of the Fire Marshal and such subordinates as may from time to time be approved by the City Council.

prior code § 80.02

(a) The Fire Chief, each chief officer of the department and each member of the bureau of fire protection and life safety, hereinafter collectively referred to as the arresting officer, may arrest a person without a warrant whenever he or she has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor or infraction in his or her presence which is a violation of a statute or ordinance he or she has the duty to enforce.

(b) In any case in which a person is arrested pursuant to subdivision (a) and the person arrested does not demand to be taken before a magistrate, the arresting officer shall prepare a written notice to appear and release the person on his or her promise to appear as prescribed by Chapter 5C, "Citations for Misdemeanors" (commencing with Section 853.6), of Title 3 of Part 2 of the California Penal Code. The provisions of said Chapter 5C shall thereafter apply with reference to any proceeding based on the issuance of a written notice to appear.

(c) This section (Section 2.36.050) is adopted pursuant to the authority granted by Section 836.5 of the California Penal Code.

(d) The persons with authority to make arrests as described in subsection (a) above, shall have the power to make arrests or issue citations pursuant to Penal Code Section 853.5.

prior code § 80.03

Ord. 1983-10 §§ 6, 7, 1983