                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN DEPARTMENT OR FIRE CHIEF MAY REMEDY INFLAMMABLE OR UNSAFE CONDITIONS (§
27-61)

The Department of Fire Programs, by its representative, or the chief or other
head of the fire department of any county, city or town or district thereof,
shall have the right, at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of examination,
to enter into and upon any public school building or any other building or
premises not at the time occupied and used as a dwelling house, within their
respective jurisdictions, for examination as to combustible materials or
inflammable or unsafe conditions in any such building or upon any such premises.
Upon complaint of any person having an interest in any building or premises or
property adjacent thereto, in his jurisdiction, an officer shall make an
immediate investigation as to the presence of any combustible materials or the
existence of inflammable or unsafe conditions in such buildings or upon such
premises. Whenever any officer finds in any building or upon any premises
combustible, inflammable or unsafe conditions, dangerous to the safety of the
building or premises, or other property, he shall order the same to be removed
or remedied, and the order shall, within a reasonable time to be fixed in the
order, be complied with by the owner or occupant of the building or premises.
		Any owner or occupant aggrieved by such order may within five days after
notice of such order, appeal to the Department of Fire Programs, and the cause
of his complaint shall be at once investigated by the Executive Director of the
Department of Fire Programs, and unless by its authority such order is revoked,
the order shall remain in force and the owner or occupant shall comply with the
order.
		Any owner or occupant of any building or premises failing to comply with any
final order made or given under the authority of this section, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more
than $100 for each offense.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4190; 1936, p. 776; 1977, c. 613; 1988, c. 199; 2007, cc.
647, 741.