Section 7. Sections 2403, 3101 and 3110 of the act are amended to read:
Section 2403. Condemnation Proceedings; Title.--The proceedings for the condemnation of lands under the provisions of this article and for the assessment of damages for property taken, injured or destroyed shall be conducted in the same manner as provided under Article XXVI.
The title acquired by virtue of any such condemnation [shall] may be a title in fee simple or any lesser estate, including, but not limited to, an easement for aviation or any other purpose.
Section 3101. Appointments; Qualifications; Salaries; Duties of Assistant Fire Marshals.--The county commissioners shall, on the fourth Monday of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred forty-three, and every fourth year thereafter, appoint a citizen of such county to serve as fire marshal thereof for the term of four years or until his successor shall be appointed, and [two] such number of citizens of said county as the county commissioners may deem necessary to serve as assistant fire marshals thereof for terms of four years or until their successors shall be appointed. In making such appointments, the county commissioner representing the minority political party in the county shall name one of the assistant fire marshals, and as vacancies occur the commissioner representing the minority party shall name the successor to any assistant fire marshal selected by a commissioner representing the minority party. No person shall be appointed fire marshal unless he shall have had ten years active service as a member of a fire department, and no person shall be appointed an assistant fire marshal unless he has had five years experience as an active member of a fire department. The salary of the fire marshal and the assistant fire marshals appointed under the authority of this act shall be fixed by the salary board and shall be in lieu of all other salary or compensation from any source whatsoever. The assistant fire marshals appointed as aforesaid shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties as those prescribed for the fire marshal.
The salary herein authorized shall be provided for by the county commissioners and paid semi-monthly out of the county treasury.
Section 3110. Records and Reports.--The fire marshal shall keep a record of all fires occurring in the county, which record shall show the results of his investigation in relation to each fire and shall be open to the public for examination, and he shall also keep on file in his office all depositions and notes of testimony taken by him in the discharge of his duties, which any person desirous of so doing shall be permitted to examine and take copies of upon payment by them to the said marshal of [the] a fee [of fifty cents (50¢)] determined by the fire marshal for such examination, and he shall also, on the fourth Monday of March in each year, make report, in writing, to the county commissioners of his activities as fire marshal during the year preceding his report.