Archived Bill Info

"POWELL"

An act relating to fires and fire prevention imposing duties and conferring powers heretofore exercised by the State Fire Marshal upon the Department of State Police constituting the chiefs of fire departments and certain public officers as assistants to said department and defining their powers and duties; providing for the investigation of the cause, origin and circumstance of fires and the inspection of all and the removal or change of certain buildings imposing duties on school authorities and on certain corporations, associations and fire rating agencies; providing for the attendance of witnesses before the department and the enforcement of its orders and prescribing penalties.

1036 Pink

Referred to the Committee on Municipal Corporations, March 31.

Reported as committed, April 8.

Passed first reading, April 9.

Passed second reading with amendments, April 21.

Passed third reading and final passage, April 22. (184-31)

House concurred in Senate amendments, June 18. (171-0)

In the Senate No. 874.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary Special, April 23.

Reported as amended, May 27.

Passed first reading, May 27.

Passed second reading, May 28.

Recommitted to Committee on Judiciary Special, June 2.

Re-reported as amended, June 4.

Postponed for the present, June 9.

Passed third reading and final passage, June 17. (43-0)

Approved by the Governor, July 1.

Act No. 286.