There shall be (1) an Office of the State Fire Marshal, and (2) an Office of the State Building Inspector, within the Department of Administrative Services. The head of each office shall report to the Commissioner of Administrative Services.
(P.A. 88-256, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-337, S. 4, 8; P.A. 93-206, S. 15, 16; P.A. 95-11; P.A. 99-190, S. 8, 9; P.A. 11-51, S. 94; P.A. 13-32, S. 13; 13-247, S. 200.)
History: P.A. 90-337 amended Subsec. (a) to establish division of fire and building safety, deleting reference to office thereof, to require commissioner to serve as administrative head of division, and to permit commissioner to delegate jurisdiction of division affairs to civilian deputy commissioner and Subsec. (b) to require bureaus of the state fire marshal and state building inspector to be in said division and the head of each bureau to report to administrative head of division; P.A. 93-206 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to substitute division of fire, emergency and building services for division of fire and building safety, and Subsec. (b) to substitute office for bureau of the state fire marshal and bureau of the state building inspector and to require office of emergency management and office of state-wide emergency telecommunications to be in division, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-11 deleted former Subsecs. (c) and (d) requiring the Public Safety Commissioner and the General Assembly's joint standing committee having cognizance of public safety matters to report every six months on and monitor the status of implementation of the recommendations of the Governor's Building Construction Advisory Committee; P.A. 99-190 amended Subsec. (b) by removing the Office of Emergency Management from within the Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services and renumbering the Subdivs. accordingly, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 11-51 deleted former Subsec. (a) re Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services and amended existing provisions to delete Subsec. (b) designator, to delete references to Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services, to place offices within Department of Construction Services, to delete provision re Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications, to delete reference to State Building Inspector as administrative head of office, and to require office heads to report to Commissioner of Construction Services, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-32 made a technical change, effective July 1, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-247, “Department of Construction Services” and “Commissioner of Construction Services” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Administrative Services” and “Commissioner of Administrative Services”, respectively, effective July 1, 2013.