Sec. 29-250. Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services. Offices within. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 29-250. Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services. Offices within. (a) There shall be within the Department of Public Safety a Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall serve as administrative head of said division. In his capacity as administrative head, the commissioner may delegate his jurisdiction of the affairs of the division to a deputy commissioner who shall be a civilian.

      (b) There shall be in the Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services (1) an Office of the State Fire Marshal, (2) an Office of the State Building Inspector, and (3) an Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications. The State Building Inspector shall serve as administrative head of the Office of the State Building Inspector. The head of each such office shall report to the administrative head of the Division of Fire, Emergency and Building 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.)

      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.

      See Sec. 28-1a re establishment of Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.