Sec. 1.
(1) This act applies, in the safeguarding of life and property from damage due to explosion, fire, or other disaster however caused, in circumstances that the bureau of fire services created in section 1b of the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29.1b, determines to be of such an emergency character as to affect the welfare and safety of the people of this state. Any organized city, village, or township fire department shall cooperate with the bureau of fire services in any such emergency, and shall have, in the emergency, the same authority and powers outside its own city, village, or township as if the fire department were in its own city, village, or township.
(2) As used in this act, "fire department" means lawfully organized fire fighting forces, however constituted, including personnel.
History: 1942, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 9, Imd. Eff. Jan. 28, 1942 ;-- CL 1948, 419.201 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 203, Imd. Eff. June 19, 2006
Compiler's Notes: For transfer of powers and duties of state fire marshal to department of labor and economic growth, bureau of construction codes and fire safety, by type II transfer, see E.R.O. No. 2003-1, compiled at MCL 445.2011.