NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 626

HOUSE BILL 842

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-9 TO AUTHORIZE THE ADOPTION OF COUNTY FIRE PREVENTION CODES AND THE APPOINTMENT OF COUNTY FIRE PREVENTION INSPECTORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153-9 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection, after subsection 39a and before subsection 40, to be numbered subsection 39b, and to read as follows:

"(39b)  County Fire Prevention Code and Inspectors. The board of commissioners of any county is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to adopt, amend, and repeal regulations for the safeguarding of life and property from the hazards of fire and explosion in the county, subject to the approval of the State Building Code Council. Such regulations shall constitute a county fire prevention code and shall have the force and effect of law outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town in the county.

"The board of commissioners of each county having a fire prevention code shall appoint one or more fire prevention inspectors to enforce the provisions of the county fire prevention code. The fire prevention inspectors shall serve at the will of the board, receive such compensation as the board may determine, and perform such duties as are required by the board and approved by the State Building Code Council. No inspector shall be appointed, unless and until approved by the Commissioner of Insurance, as qualified to make fire prevention inspections, and the Commissioner of Insurance is hereby authorized to determine qualifications necessary for approval which may include the taking and passing of a written examination. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the board of commissioners from providing that the county fire marshal, building inspector, electrical inspector or other official or employee shall perform the duties of fire prevention inspector, if approved as provided above, but no person shall make any electrical inspections unless he shall be qualified as required by G.S. 160-122.

"Nothing in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting two or more counties from designating the same person or persons to make the inspections and perform the duties required by this Act."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1965.