Spokane Municipal Code

Title 17F Construction Standards

Chapter 17F.080 Fire Code

Section 17F.080.040 Fire Marshal

The fire marshal is the fire official. The fire official is authorized and directed to:

1. inspect all premises for compliance with the fire code, and specifically all new businesses;

2. initiate proceedings, including prosecutions and judicial or summary abatement actions, to enforce the fire code;

3. make and promulgate rules, regulations and interpretations of the fire code and issue civil infractions to enforce any order, regulation or provision of this chapter.

4. maintain records of fire safety inspections;

5. administer within the City the laws regulating fireworks, with specific authority to postpone or delay a pyrotechnic display because of weather conditions or other reasons;

6. seek search warrants upon a showing of probable cause specific to the dwelling unit or common area sought to be searched that criminal fire code violations exist when a tenant or landlord denies a fire official the right to search, as provided in RCW 59.18.150;

7. seize explosives, improvised devices and components of explosives and improvised devices that are possessed, manufactured, delivered, imported, exported, stored, sold, purchased, transported, abandoned, detonated or used, or intended to be used, in violation of a provision of chapter 70.74 RCW.

Date Passed: Monday, July 26, 2021

Effective Date: Monday, July 26, 2021

ORD C36091 Section 3

Section 17F.080.040 Fire Marshal

The fire marshal is the fire official. The fire official is authorized and directed to:

1. inspect all premises for compliance with the fire code, and specifically all new businesses;

2. initiate proceedings, including prosecutions and judicial or summary abatement actions, to enforce the fire code;

3. make and promulgate rules, regulations and interpretations of the fire code and issue civil infractions to enforce any order, regulation or provision of this chapter.

4. maintain records of fire safety inspections;

5. administer within the City the laws regulating fireworks, with specific authority to postpone or delay a pyrotechnic display because of weather conditions or other reasons;

6. seek search warrants upon a showing of probable cause specific to the dwelling unit or common area sought to be searched that criminal fire code violations exist when a tenant or landlord denies a fire official the right to search, as provided in RCW 59.18.150;

7. seize explosives, improvised devices and components of explosives and improvised devices that are possessed, manufactured, delivered, imported, exported, stored, sold, purchased, transported, abandoned, detonated or used, or intended to be used, in violation of a provision of chapter 70.74 RCW.

Date Passed: Monday, July 26, 2021

Effective Date: Monday, July 26, 2021

ORD C36091 Section 3