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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82703</law_id><section_number>27-99</section_number><catch_line>State buildings</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>36-98.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="27">Fire Protection</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Fire Prevention Code</span> shall be applicable to all state-owned buildings and structures. Every agency, commission or institution, including all institutions of higher education, of the Commonwealth shall permit, at all reasonable hours, a local fire official reasonable access to existing structures or a structure under construction or renovation, for the purposes of performing an informational and advisory fire safety inspection. The local fire official may submit, subsequent to performing such inspection, his <span class="dictionary">findings</span> and recommendations including a list of corrective actions necessary to ensure that such structure is reasonably safe from the hazards of fire to the appropriate official of such agency, commission, or institution and the <span class="dictionary">State Fire Marshal</span>. Such agency, commission or institution shall notify, within 60 days of receipt of such <span class="dictionary">findings</span> and recommendations, the <span class="dictionary">State Fire Marshal</span> and the local fire official of the corrective measures taken to eliminate the hazards reported by the local fire official. The <span class="dictionary">State Fire Marshal</span> shall have the same power in the enforcement of this section as is provided for in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Enforcement of Fire Prevention Code; appeals from decisions of local enforcing agencies; inspection of buildings" href="/27-98/">27-98</a>.
		The <span class="dictionary">State Fire Marshal</span> may enter into an agreement as is provided for in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Inspection of certain state-owned, state-operated, or state-licensed facilities; enforcement of safety standards" href="/9.1-207/">9.1-207</a> with any local <span class="dictionary">enforcement agency</span> that enforces the <span class="dictionary">Fire Prevention Code</span> to enforce this section and to take immediate enforcement action upon verification of a complaint of an imminent hazard such as a chained or blocked exit door, improper storage of flammable liquids, use of decorative <span class="dictionary">materials</span> and overcrowding.</p></section></text><history>1986, c. 429; 1989, c. 258; 1994, c. 275; 1997, c. 584; 2007, cc. 647, 741.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
