Code of Virginia - Title 27 Fire Protection - Chapter 9 Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act

• 27-94 Short title
  This chapter may be cited as the "Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act." (1986, c. 429.) ...
• 27-95 Definitions
  As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter requires otherwise, the following words or terms shall have the meaning herein ascribed to ...
• 27-96 Statewide standards
  The purposes of this chapter are to provide for statewide standards for optional local enforcement to safeguard life and property from the hazards of fire ...
• 27-96.1 Chapter inapplicable to certain uses of fireworks
  Unless prohibited by a local ordinance, the provisions of this chapter pertaining to fireworks shall not apply to the sale of or to any person ...
• 27-96.2 Exemptions generally
  The provisions of this chapter concerning fireworks shall have no application to any officer or member of the armed forces of this Commonwealth, or of ...
• 27-97 Adoption of Fire Prevention Code
  The Board of Housing and Community Development is hereby empowered to adopt and promulgate a Statewide Fire Prevention Code which shall be cooperatively developed with ...
• 27-97.1 Reports of stolen explosives
  Any person holding a permit for the manufacture, storage, handling, use or sale of explosives issued in accordance with the provisions of the Code shall ...
• 27-97.2 Issuance of permit; background investigations
  A. The State Fire Marshal or other issuing authority shall consider all permit applications for manufacturing, storage, handling, use or sales of explosives and applications ...
• 27-98 Enforcement of Fire Prevention Code; appeals from decisions of local enforcing agencies; inspectio...
  Any local government may enforce the Fire Prevention Code in its entirety or with respect only to those provisions of the Fire Prevention Code relating ...
• 27-98.1 Inspections of buildings, structures, properties and premises
  In order to carry out the purposes of the Code and any regulations or standards adopted in pursuance thereof, the local fire official, upon presenting ...
• 27-98.2 Issuance of warrant
  Search warrants for inspections or reinspection of buildings, structures, property, or premises subject to inspections pursuant to the Code, to determine compliance with regulations or ...
• 27-98.3 Duration of warrant
  An inspection warrant shall be effective for the time specified therein, for a period of not more than seven days, unless extended or renewed by ...
• 27-98.4 Conduct of inspections, examinations, testing, or collection of samples
  No warrant shall be executed in the absence of the owner, operator or agent in charge of the particular building, structure, property or premises unless ...
• 27-98.5 Review by courts
  A. No court of the Commonwealth shall have jurisdiction to hear a challenge to the warrant prior to its return to the issuing judge or ...
• 27-99 State buildings
  The Fire Prevention Code shall be applicable to all state-owned buildings and structures. Every agency, commission or institution, including all institutions of higher education, of ...
• 27-100 Violation a misdemeanor
  It shall be unlawful for any owner or any other person, firm, or corporation, on or after the effective date of any Code provisions, to ...
• 27-100.1 Seizure and destruction of certain fireworks
  Any law-enforcement officer arresting any person for a violation of this chapter related to fireworks shall seize any article of fireworks in the possession or ...
• 27-101 Injunction upon application
  Every court having jurisdiction under existing or any future law is empowered to and shall, upon the application of the local enforcing agency or State ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009