New Franklin City Burn Ban ordinance (§ 225.100)
Chapter 225: Emergency Management
In short: The Mayor can declare a burn ban; during one, any fire must be watched at all times, kept in a pit or ring, and have water or dirt on hand to put it out.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
Added by Ordinance 818 (May 13, 2024). It is not in the city's printed code book yet. Read Ordinance 818
Text read by machine from the city's scanned copy; check the original for exact wording.
The Mayor is authorized, upon consultation with emergency service and management authorities, to institute a burn ban within city limits. The ban shall make any open and unsupervised burning unlawful. Any person engaged in open burning during the ban must continually supervise the fire and confine the combustion to a pit, hole, ring, or other perimeter to limit the spread of the fire and must have a means to extinguish the fire readily available, such as water source or loose dirt. Any person engaged in open and unsupervised burning during the ban is subject to citation for negligent burning as prohibited by section 210.340 of this code. Such ban shall be announced at all public meetings of the city government and shall be noticed by publication in the newspaper. The ban shall last until either a specific date specified in the ban notice itself or until the Mayor rescinds the ban. The Board of Alderman may rescind the ban by simple majority motion at a public meeting.
Official source: Ordinance 818 (PDF on the city site)
Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.