Sponsored by:
Assemblyman MATTHEW W. MILAM
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman ERIC HOUGHTALING
District 11 (Monmouth)
Assemblyman CLINTON CALABRESE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Armato, Mazzeo, Burzichelli and Taliaferro
SYNOPSIS
Requires DCA to establish training course concerning fire code enforcement activities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the training of fire officials 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 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 farm 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. ) (pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 5535 of the 2018-2019 legislative session), 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 of each enforcing agency. Each fire official 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 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, 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. ) (pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 5535 of the 2018-2019 legislative session), the division shall incorporate educational requirements concerning the regulation of commercial farm buildings and seasonal farm 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.
d. As used in this section:
“Division” means the Division of Fire Safety in the Department of Community Affairs.
“Fire official” means any person 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.).
2. This act shall take
effect upon the enactment of P.L. , c. (C.
) (pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 5535 of the 2018-2019
legislative session).
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), in consultation with the Department of Agriculture (NJDA), to establish a training course to inform fire officials 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 farm labor housing.
Specifically, the training course would be based on the separate fire safety code criteria for commercial farm buildings and seasonal farm labor housing, which are jointly promulgated by the DCA and NJDA pursuant to a companion bill. Under the bill, each fire official in the State would be required to successfully complete the training course within one year of the development of the course.
The bill requires the Division of Fire Safety in the DCA to continue to provide the training course, free of charge, until each fire official has successfully completed the course. Additionally, the bill requires the division to incorporate educational requirements concerning the regulation of commercial farm buildings and seasonal farm 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. Under the bill, any fire official who is certified by the division after the incorporation of these educational requirements would not be required to complete the training course.
This bill would take effect upon the enactment of a companion bill, pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 5535 of the 2018-2019 legislative session.