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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 2757 By: May
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to state government; amending 74 O.S.
2021, Section 314, which relates to investigation of
fires; modifying time period for start of
investigation; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 74 O.S. 2021, Section 314, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 314. The State Fire Marshal and or the chief of the
fire department of every city , town or village district in which a
fire department is established, and or the mayor of every
incorporated village city or town in which no fire department
exists, and or the sheriff of the county shall investigate the
cause, origin and circumstances of every fire occurring in such
city, village, town district or county by which property has been
destroyed or damaged, and shall especially m ake investigation as to
whether the cause of such fire was the result of carelessness or
design accidental or intentional. Said investigation shall begin
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within two (2) days, not including Sundays, forty-eight (48) hours
of the occurrence of such fire , and the said Fire Marshal shall have
the right to supervise and d irect such investigation whenever he
deems it necessary or expedient. The officer ma king the
investigation of fires, shall forthwith notify said Fire Marshal and
shall within a week of the occ urrence of the fire furnish to the
said Fire Marshal a written statement of all facts relating to the
cause and origin of the fire, and such other i nformation as may be
called for by blanks provided by said Marshal. The State Fire
Marshal shall keep in hi s office a record of all fires occurring in
the state, together with all facts, statistics and circumstances
including the origin of the fires, whic h may be determined by the
investigation provided by this act; such records shall at all times
be open to the public inspection, and such portions of it as the
insurance commissioner may deem necessary shall be transcribed and
forwarded to him within fifte en (15) days from the 1st day of
January of each year . The officer making the investigation of fires
shall within a week of the occurrence of the fire complete a written
statement of all acts relating to the cause and origin of the fire
and shall within forty-eight (48) hours of the occurrence of such
fire report to the State Fi re Marshal all civilian and firef ighter
injuries and fatalities resulting from the occurrence of such f ire.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 3.
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59-1-7796 JBH 02/28/23