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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 53. MUNICIPAL AND QUASI-MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
PART V. CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
CHAPTER 81. THIRD CLASS CITY CODE
ARTICLE XXI. FIRE BUREAU
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08/31/2009
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NOTICE: As to repeal of this section where inconsistent with Act 1990, Dec. 19, P.L. 1343, No. 209, see § 2 of said act.
§ 37104. Fire marshal; powers
Every city may, by ordinance, provide for the creation of the office of fire marshal who shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the approval and consent of council, biennially. The fire marshal and his assistants, if council shall provide for such assistants, shall inspect all constructions or buildings within the city or upon property owned or controlled by the city or a municipality authority of the city within the Commonwealth, whether public, private, or business, and shall enforce all laws of the Commonwealth and ordinances of the city relating to such constructions or buildings, for the prevention, containment, or investigation of fire and fire hazards, both as to the constructions or buildings and as to the contents or occupancies thereof. The fire marshal or his assistants shall report to the director of public safety or to council, as council shall by ordinance provide, any faulty or dangerous construction or building or like condition in any building, that may constitute a fire hazard, or any proposed use or occupation of any construction, building or premises, which would create or increase a hazard of fire. He shall investigate and keep a permanent record of the cause, origin and circumstances of every fire and the damage resulting therefrom occurring within his jurisdiction immediately after the occurrence of such fire. The said records of the fire marshal shall be open to public inspection. The fire marshal shall submit to council an annual report consolidating the information contained in said records at the first stated meeting in March of each year. He shall request the mayor or any alderman of the city to investigate, under the act, approved the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred sixty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 74), the origin of any fire he deems suspicious; and shall be equally subject to appointment and removal and to all the powers and duties under the act, approved the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred twenty-seven (Pamphlet Laws 450, Number 291), as amended, as is the chief of the fire department.
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