Sec. 420.116. - Mayor's Home Fire-Safety Program.

There is hereby established and created the Mayor's Home Fire-Safety Program for the purpose of preventing and reducing residential fire deaths, injuries and property loss through fire-safety inspections and Fire-Safety Recommendation Reports made by firefighters to encourage owners or occupants to correct their residential life/safety deficiencies, public education, installing battery-operated smoke detectors in residences, and replacing smoke detector batteries in residences. The foregoing shall be carried out in accordance with the following: (a) Participation by the owner or occupant of a residence shall be voluntary only; (b) For purposes of this program, a residence shall be a one-family or two-family dwelling only; (c) The installing of battery-operated smoke detectors and replacement of batteries in smoke detectors shall be provided upon request and at no charge on a voluntary donation basis to residences in the City of Jacksonville, to the extent that resources are available in the Fire-Safety Program; (d) Purchases of battery-operated smoke detectors and batteries for smoke detectors from the Fire-Safety Program Trust Fund shall be exempt from Part 2, Chapter 126 , Ordinance Code, and the Director of Fire and Rescue, or his designee, is hereby authorized to negotiate directly with manufacturers or suppliers, or both, in order to economically obtain such products; and (e) The Fire and Rescue Department and other public or private persons or entities as the Director may authorize, are hereby authorized to solicit and accept donations from businesses, organizations and individuals of money, equipment, materials, and supplies for the program; provided, that all money shall be deposited in and expended from the Fire-Safety Program Trust Fund only. (Ord. 91-125-76, § 1)