Idaho Code § 50-309
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50-309 FIRE DEPARTMENT — FIRE ZONES.
Official statutory text
50-309. Fire department — Fire zones. A. Any city, in order to prevent and extinguish fires, shall have the power to erect engine houses, purchase or lease fire engines and all other apparatus to maintain a fire department, to provide water for fire purposes in the city, in such manner as the council may by ordinance prescribe.
B. Cities may prescribe and alter the limits within which no building shall be constructed except of brick, stone or other incombustible material and fire retardant roof and after such limits are established, no special permits shall be given for the erection of buildings of combustible material within said limits, except as provided in sections 50-1201 through 50-1210, Idaho Code.
History:
[50-309, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 41, p. 1249; am. 1974, ch. 186, sec. 1, p. 1491.]
B. Cities may prescribe and alter the limits within which no building shall be constructed except of brick, stone or other incombustible material and fire retardant roof and after such limits are established, no special permits shall be given for the erection of buildings of combustible material within said limits, except as provided in sections 50-1201 through 50-1210, Idaho Code.
History:
[50-309, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 41, p. 1249; am. 1974, ch. 186, sec. 1, p. 1491.]
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