Title 23, Title 23 and Safety

If upon investigation, the fire marshal believes that the evidence is sufficient to charge any person with the commission of any offense, the fire marshal shall report that belief to the attorney general. The fire marshal shall make a report of the investigation and belief in wri…

(a) Within the office of the state fire marshal, there shall be an enforcement unit responsible for the initiation of criminal prosecution of or civil proceedings against any person(s) in violation of the state Fire Safety Code or failure to comply with an order to abate conditio…

The attorney general, upon request of the state fire marshal, shall assist upon any investigation of any fire which, in the opinion of the state fire marshal, is of suspicious origin, and shall institute and conduct all prosecutions of persons charged with arson, burning to defra…

The state fire marshal shall keep in his or her office a record of all fires investigated by his or her office and of all the facts concerning the investigated fires, and all reports of the investigations as the fire marshal may cause to be made, including statistics as to the ex…

The state fire marshal, his or her deputies, and assistants, charged with the enforcement of the Fire Safety Code and the director of the fire academy and his or her instructors charged with fire education and training as governed by, chapters 28.1 through 28.39 of this title, sh…

The state fire marshal shall have the authority to formulate administrative procedures necessary to uniformly administer and enforce this code; provided, that the procedures do not conflict with the rules and regulations promulgated by the fire safety code board.

The assistance and cooperation of police, fire, building inspectors, and all other municipal officials shall be available to the authority having jurisdiction in the performance of its duties.

Minimum qualifications are five (5) years experience in fire prevention, fire investigation, or fire protection, or a degree in fire protection engineering from a credited college plus three (3) years experience in fire prevention, fire investigation, or fire protection.

(a) In the discharge of its duties, the authority having jurisdiction shall have the authority to enter at any reasonable hour, any building, structure, or premises in the state to enforce the provisions of the Fire Safety Code, chapters 28.1 — 28.39 of this title and all codes r…

(a) The fire marshal and persons designated specifically in writing by the fire marshal shall have the power to issue notices of violation as herein provided for, and the powers herein established shall be in addition to other powers of inspection and enforcement of the Fire Safe…

Except wherever herein specifically defined or covered in this code, the provisions of the NFPA Standards included in the National Fire Code, as referenced by the edition of the Life Safety Code in effect at the time, shall be used by the authority having jurisdiction as the acce…

(a) There shall be a fire education and training unit within the office of the state fire marshal headed by a director of fire training. The director of fire training shall be appointed by the fire marshal from a list of names submitted by the fire education and training coordina…

(a) There is hereby created within the office of the state fire marshal a fire education and training coordinating board comprised of thirteen (13) members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. In making the appointments, the governor shall give due…

(a) Every case of a burn injury or wound, where the victim sustained second or third degree burns to five percent (5%) or more of the body and/or any burns to the upper-respiratory tract or laryngeal edema due to the inhalation of super-heated air, and every case of a burn injury…

(a) Every request for plan review, by the state fire marshal’s office, under the provisions of the Fire Safety Code shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed in this section. Plan review fees shall be as follows: NEW BUILDING, ADDITIONS, ALTERATION, STRUCTURES, ETC.General permi…

(a) The state fire marshal’s office shall assess an inspection fee of one-hundred dollars ($100.00) per inspection for any inspection performed by that office pursuant to chapter 28.1 of Title 23, or any other provisions of the state fire code, including any rule or regulation pr…

(a) There is hereby created within the department of business regulation a restricted receipt account to be known as the Rhode Island state firefighter’s league grant account. Donations received from the Rhode Island state firefighter’s league shall be deposited into this account…

There is hereby created with the department of business regulation a restricted receipt account to be known as the fire academy training fees account. All receipts collected pursuant to § 23-28.2-23 shall be deposited in this account and shall be used to fund costs associated wit…

The state fire marshal may be removed by the governor only for cause, and after filing of charges, and a notification thereof to the state fire marshal, a hearing thereon before the state personnel appeal board, and the filing of findings by the board.

In the event any town or fire district does not have an assistant deputy state fire marshal appointed by the state fire marshal pursuant to § 23-28.2-9 to perform fire prevention, protection, inspection, and other duties under chapters 28.1 through 28.39 of this title, the applic…

The state fire marshal, as the authority having jurisdiction, shall have the authority to enforce and perform the duties required by the Comprehensive Fire Safety Act, chapter 28.01 of this title, by the Fire Safety Code, chapters 28.1 — 28.39 of this title, and all codes referen…

(a) Within the office of the state fire marshal, there shall be a bomb disposal unit (bomb squad), accredited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a bomb squad, whose duties it will be to handle and dispose of all hazardous devices suspect to be explosive or incendiary…

In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the state fire marshal is authorized and directed: (1) To procure in his or her discretion as many deputy state fire marshals and assistant deputy state fire marshals as needed, and the temporary or intermittent services of experts or…

The state fire marshal shall be provided adequate offices through the department of business regulation.

The state fire marshal may incur such expenses for deputy state fire marshals, clerical assistance, and office supplies as may be necessary.

(a) The fire marshal may appoint as many nonsalaried assistant deputy state fire marshals as he or she may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of chapters 28.1 — 28.39 of this title; the assistant deputy fire marshals shall serve at the pleasure of the state fire marshal. Pr…