Bill Text: NJ S3950 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires DCA to establish training course concerning certain fire code enforcement activities.*
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-20 - Recommitted to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S3950 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3950-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BOB ANDRZEJCZAK
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DCA to establish training course concerning certain fire code enforcement activities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on June 17, 2019, with amendments.
An Act concerning the training of fire officials 1and fire inspectors,1 and supplementing P.L.1983, c.383 (C.52:27D-192 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Department of Community Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, shall develop a training course to inform fire officials 1and fire inspectors1 of the requirements concerning the enforcement of the "Uniform Fire Safety Act," P.L.1983, c.383 (C.52:27D-192 et seq.) with respect to commercial farm buildings and seasonal 1[farm] agricultural1 labor housing. The training course shall be based on the separate fire safety code criteria promulgated pursuant to section 4 of P.L. , c. (C. ) 1[(pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. of the 2018-2019 legislative session)] (pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. 3951 of 2019)1, and the training course shall be developed within 60 days of the promulgation of the regulations.
b. The division shall provide the training course, free of charge, to the fire officials 1and fire inspectors1 of each enforcing agency. Each fire official 1and fire inspector1 shall satisfactorily complete the training course no later than one year after the training course is developed pursuant to subsection a. of this section, except that any fire official 1or fire inspector1 who is certified by the division following the incorporation of applicable education requirements pursuant to subsection c. of this section shall not be required to complete the training course. The division shall continue to provide the training course until each fire official 1or fire inspector1, who has not completed a certification program under subsection c. of this section, has completed the training course.
c. Following the promulgation of the separate fire safety code criteria pursuant to section 4 of P.L. , c. (C. ) 1[(pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. of the 2018-2019 legislative session)] (pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. 3951 of 2019)1, the division shall incorporate educational requirements concerning the regulation of commercial farm buildings and seasonal 1[farm] agricultural1 labor housing under the "Uniform Fire Safety Act," P.L.1983, c.383 (C.52:27D-192 et seq.) into the certification program for fire officials 1and fire inspectors1.
d. 1The provisions of this section shall apply to fire officials and fire inspectors that are appointed or employed to enforce the Uniform Fire Code in jurisdictions containing property subject to taxation under the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964," P.L.1964, c.48 (C.54:4-23.1 et seq.) as determined by the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury.
e.1 As used in this section:
"Division" means the Division of Fire Safety in the Department of Community Affairs.
1Fire inspector" means a person working under the direction of the fire official who is certified by the Commission of Community Affairs and appointed or designated to enforce the Uniform Fire Code by the appointing authority of a local enforcing agency.1
"Fire official" means 1[any] a1 person 1[employed by an enforcing agency to enforce the provisions of the "Uniform Fire Safety Act" P.L.1983, c.383 (C.52:27D-192 et seq.)] certified by the Commissioner of Community Affairs and appointed or designated to direct the enforcement of the Uniform Fire Code.
"Uniform Fire Code" means the code promulgated pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1983, c.383 (C.52:27D-198)"1.
2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment of P.L. , c. (C. ) 1[(pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. of the 2018-2019 legislative session)] (pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. 3951 of 2019)1.
