Chap. 410.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4190 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to when the State Corporation Commission may remedy inflam-
mable conditions. [S B 153]

Approved March 30, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-one hundred and ninety of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4190. When State Corporation Commission May Remedy
Inflammable Conditions; Appeal; Penalties——The State Corporation
Commission, or its representative, or the chief or other head of the
fire department of any city, town or county or district thereof, shall
have the right, at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of examination,
to enter into and upon any public school building or any other build-
ing or premises not at the time occupied and used as a dwelling house,
within their jurisdiction, for examination as to combustible material
or inflammable conditions in any such building or upon any such
premises and, upon complaint of any person having an interest in any
building or premises or property adjacent thereto, in their jurisdiction,”
shall make an immediate investigation as to the presence of any com-
bustible materials or the existence of inflammable conditions in the
said building or upon said premises. Whenever any of the said of-
ficers shall find in any such building or upon any premises combustible
or inflammable conditions, dangerous to the safety of such building or
premises, or other property, they shall order the same to be removed,
or remedied, and such order shall within a reasonable time, to be fixed
in the said order, be complied with by the owner or occupant of said
buildings or premises; but if the said owner or occupant shall feel
aggrieved by such order, he or she may within five days after notice
of such order, appeal to the commission, and the cause of his com-
plaint shall be at once investigated by the direction of the said com-
mission, and unless by its authority such order is revoked, the same
shall remain in force and be complied with by said owner or occupant.

Any owner or occupant of any building or premises failing to com-
ply with any final order made or given under the authority of this sec-
tion, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine
of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for
each offense,