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Fire officials and lawmakers call to close loophole exempting state-owned properties from local fire-code enforcement
Summary
Fire chiefs and Boston Fire Department officials told the committee that local fire departments lack authority to enforce fire-code standards on many state-owned buildings and urged legislation to allow local enforcement to ensure life-safety systems are maintained.
Representative Rob Consalvo (recorded as Rob Consabo in the transcript) told the joint committee that House Bill 2577 would close a longstanding loophole that leaves state-owned properties outside local fire-code enforcement. He said the change would affect cities and towns across the commonwealth and particularly matters in Boston because of the number of state-owned high-rise buildings there.
Pat Ellis, chief of operations and former fire marshal for the Boston Fire Department, testified that local fire officials…
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