The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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VILLAGE OFFICIALS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 213, § 26)
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§ 26. Fire Marshal
(a) The Fire Marshal may by writing recorded by the Clerk appoint one or more deputy fire
marshals.
(b) The Fire Marshal or in the Fire Marshal’s absence the deputy fire marshal next in
authority shall have power at fires to suppress tumults and riots, by force if necessary,
to direct the labor of all persons present at times of the fire, to remove all effects
endangered by the fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, to pull down
or remove any building when the Fire Marshal deems it necessary to prevent the spreading
of the fire, and to require the assistance of any and all inhabitants of the corporation
for the several purposes described in this section, and for any such acts, the Fire
Marshal and those acting under the Fire Marshal’s authority shall not be held personally
responsible.
(c) The Fire Marshal shall inspect the manner of manufacturing and keeping gunpowder,
lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, and other combustibles and the construction
and repairs of fireplaces, chimneys, and stoves within the Village, and if the Fire
Marshal deems the same dangerous shall by the Fire Marshal’s order in writing recorded
by the Clerk and delivered to the person conducting such manufacturing, keeping, construction,
or repairs direct in what way to conduct the same, and any person refusing or neglecting
to obey any such order of the Fire Marshal or in the Fire Marshal’s absence of the
Fire Marshal’s deputy next in authority, so made and recorded and delivered, shall
be punished by a fine of not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 290, eff. July 1, 2023.)