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21-4-7
Section 21-4-7 Enforcement of article; authority of Fire Marshal to inspect buildings; orders
to conform with standards and specifications. The State Fire Marshal is charged with the duty
of enforcing standards and specifications prescribed as authorized in Section 21-4-3. For
such purpose, he shall have the same power and authority to inspect buildings, facilities,
and premises to which this article applies that he has relative to buildings which might constitute
fire hazards. If he finds that any building to which this article applies does not comply
with the applicable standards and specifications duly prescribed and published pursuant to
Section 21-4-3, he shall immediately order the same to be conformed to such standards and
specifications. Such order may be appealed and enforced in the same manner prescribed for
appealing and enforcing the Fire Marshal's orders relative to the elimination of fire hazards.
(Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §10; Acts 1975, No. 1210, p. 2524, §1.)...
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21-4-4
Section 21-4-4 Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Applicability.
(a) The standards and specifications prescribed by the fire marshal, as authorized in this
article, shall apply to all buildings and facilities used by the public which are constructed
in whole or in part by the use of state, county, or municipal funds, or the funds of any political
subdivision of the state. All such buildings and facilities constructed in this state after
October 10, 1975, from any one of these funds or any combination thereof shall conform to
each of the standards and specifications prescribed therein, and also any standards and specifications
prescribed as supplementary thereto, as authorized in Section 21-4-6. (b) Such standards and
specifications shall be adhered to in those buildings and facilities under construction on
October 10, 1975, unless a written waiver thereof is issued pursuant to Section 21-4-5. If
the authority responsible for the construction determines...
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21-4-3
Section 21-4-3 Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Promulgation.
The State Fire Marshal shall prescribe and publish standards and specifications for the buildings,
premises, and facilities to which this article applies, which will make such buildings accessible
to and functional for the physically disabled who are confined to wheelchairs and to those
ambulating on braces or crutches, or both, or on canes, to the blind and to the deaf. Such
standards and specifications may be based on the American National Standards Institute specifications,
as heretofore or hereafter amended. Such standards and specifications shall apply to building
features such as the width of halls and doorways, and the construction of stairs, the installation
of ramps, the installation of other equipment and accessories to aid the handicapped, the
location and installation of equipment and accessories for the buildings such as public telephones,
fire alarms, toilet rooms, lights, heat...
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21-4-5
Section 21-4-5 Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Construction
and interpretation; waivers. (a) The State Fire Marshal and the Division of Construction Management
of the Department of Finance are each hereby authorized to construe and interpret the standards
and specifications prescribed as authorized in this article. (b) Each of such officers is
hereby authorized, with the concurrence of the other, to grant a waiver of a particular standard
or specification upon proper application therefor, when in their joint opinion, following
the specification or standard would be unreasonably costly and impractical, or that an alternative
facility is already reasonably available. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §1; Acts 1975, No.
1210, p. 2524, §1.)...
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11-52-30
Section 11-52-30 Territorial jurisdiction; approval of maps or plats; regulations; limits on
exercise of powers. (a) Except as otherwise provided herein, the territorial jurisdiction
of any municipal planning commission shall include all land located in the municipality and
all land lying within five miles of the corporate limits of the municipality and not located
in any other municipality; except that, in the case of any nonmunicipal land lying within
five miles of more than one municipality having a municipal planning commission, the jurisdiction
of each municipal planning commission shall terminate at a boundary line equidistant from
the respective corporate limits of such municipalities. Any alterations of a municipal planning
commission based upon annexation or deannexation of property within the corporate limits of
a municipality shall occur once a year on the first day of January and shall take effect for
any annexations which were finalized on or before the preceding first day...
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36-19-11
Section 36-19-11 Inspection of buildings, etc., by Fire Marshal, deputies or assistants; issuance
of order for removal of combustible matter, correction of inflammable conditions, etc. The
Fire Marshal, his deputies or assistants, upon the complaint in writing of any citizen, or
whenever he or they shall deem it necessary, shall inspect at all reasonable hours any and
all buildings or premises within their jurisdiction. When any such officer shall find any
building or other structure which, for want of repairs, lack of sufficient fire escapes, automatic
or other fire alarm apparatus or fire extinguishing equipment or by reason of age or dilapidated
condition or from any other cause, is especially liable to fire and is situated so as to endanger
life or property, and whenever any such officer shall find in any building combustible or
explosive matter or inflammable conditions dangerous to the safety of such building, he or
they shall order the same removed or remedied, and such order...
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36-19-14
Section 36-19-14 Repair, etc., of buildings, etc., upon failure of party, etc., to obey order
of court; payment of expenses thereof. In case the order of the circuit court is sustained
or the appeal dismissed for any cause, if any party or parties fail to comply with the order
as modified on appeal by the circuit court or Court of Civil Appeals as provided in this article
and within the time fixed by said courts, the said court may cause such building or premises
to be repaired, torn down, demolished, materials removed and all dangerous conditions remedied,
as the case may be, at the expense of such party or parties; and, if such party or parties
within 30 days thereafter fail, neglect or refuse to repay such officer the expense thereby
incurred by him, such officer shall certify said expense to the Fire Marshal, and the Fire
Marshal shall immediately pay said expense out of the Fire Marshal Fund. (Acts 1919, No. 701,
p. 1013, §8; Code 1923, §970; Code 1940, T. 55, §42.)...
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16-1-2
Section 16-1-2 Inspection of buildings during and after construction; acceptance of completed
construction; forms for construction contracts. In order to eliminate the causes of school
fires and other conditions which jeopardize the health and safety of school children: (1)
The county or city superintendent of education shall notify the State Superintendent of Education
within 10 days after the beginning of the construction of a building; and, upon the request
of the county or city superintendent of education, the State Superintendent of Education or
his agent shall inspect said building during construction for the purpose of seeing that plans
and specifications upon which the contract was let are being complied with. (2) A county or
city superintendent of education shall not recommend and a county or city board of education
shall not approve for payment more than 90 percent of the contract price of the building constructed
by the county or city board of education until the State...
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24-6-4
Section 24-6-4 Powers and duties; fund; Sunset provision. (a) The commission, in an advisory
capacity, shall be the principal staff agency of the executive branch to provide, with the
cooperation of other departments of state governmental units, a comprehensive housing program
and procedures which include the relevance for housing programs administered by the state
and the governmental structures required to put such programs into effect. The commission,
through its administrator, shall perform all the duties and exercise all the powers and authority
relative to modular housing, manufactured buildings, manufactured housing, and pre-HUD 1976
mobile homes, heretofore vested in the Fire Marshal's Division within the State Department
of Insurance, and other implied powers. All the functions, powers, authority, and duties provided
by law, specifically, but not limited to: Sections 24-5-1 through 24-5-14; 24-5-30 through
24-5-34; and 24-4A-1 through 24-4A-7, all books, records, and supplies,...
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8-17-211
Section 8-17-211 Permit for manufacture, sale, etc., of fireworks or pyrotechnics for use before
a proximate audience; record of sales; enforcement. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person
to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or ship or cause to be shipped into or within the State
of Alabama, except as herein provided, any item of fireworks or pyrotechnics for use before
a proximate audience, without first having secured the required applicable permit, as a manufacturer,
distributor, wholesaler, retailer, or seasonal retailer, from the State Fire Marshal. Possession
of a permit is a condition prerequisite to manufacturing, selling, or offering for sale, or
shipping or causing to be shipped any fireworks or pyrotechnics for use before a proximate
audience into or within the State of Alabama, except as herein provided. This provision applies
to nonresidents as well as residents of the State of Alabama. Mail orders where consumers
purchase any fireworks or pyrotechnics for use before a...
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