Provision for fire hydrants.

(1) The Chief Municipal Officer shall, either on his own or through any agency, fix hydrants on water-mains, other than trunk mains, at such places as may be most convenient for affording supply of water for extinguishing any fire, and shall keep in good order such hydrants, and may, from time to time, renew every such hydrant. (2) The situation of every hydrant shall be denoted in such manner, and the key of a hydrant shall be deposited at such place, as may be prescribed. (3) The Chief Municipal Officer may, at the request and expense of the owner or the occupier of any building referred to in clause (a) of section 165, which is situated in or near a street in which a pipe, not being a Government main or municipal main, is laid, and being of sufficient dimensions to carry a hydrant, fix on the pipe, and keep in good order, and, from time to time, renew, one or more fire hydrants as near to such building as may be convenient, to be used only for extinguishing fire. (4) The Chief Municipal Officer shall allow, without any payment, any person to take water for extinguishing fire from any pipe on which a hydrant is fixed.