New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 71 - FIRE CODE ENFORCEMENT
Subchapter 3 - ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Section 5:71-3.6 - Coordination for State licensed and regulated facilities

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 5:71-3.6

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) The provisions of this section shall apply to the following types of facilities which are licensed or regulated by State agencies:

1. Department of Human Services:
i. Day care centers;

ii. Day nurseries;

iii. Community residences for the developmentally disabled.

2. Department of Health and Senior Services:
i. Health care facilities.

3. Department of Community Affairs:
i. Rooming houses;

ii. Boarding homes.

iii. Hotels;

iv. Multiple dwellings.

(b) The fire official shall ensure that State agencies are notified when one or more violations of the Fire Code are found in such facilities.

(c) Any State licensing agency shall notify the fire official having jurisdiction of any inspection in order that the fire official might take part. When this is not possible or practical then the agency shall notify the fire official of any Fire Code violations found. Any such State agency shall send a list of the facilities it licenses to the fire official.

(d) Any State agency that enforces the Fire Code as a part of any licensing standard and any fire official shall consult with the other before any variance to the Fire Code is granted.

1. The concurrence of both shall be required before the variance shall be granted.

2. A copy of any variance granted shall be filed with the Division.

(e) Wherever a difference in interpretation of the Code arises between the fire official and a State agency having licensing jurisdiction, then the official, the agency or the owner may apply to the Division for a final interpretation and ruling, which shall be requested and furnished in writing.

(f) In addition to inspecting life hazard uses, a local enforcing agency may, by giving notice to the Division, accept responsibility for cyclical inspection and enforcement of the Uniform Fire Code in hotels and multiple dwellings that are not life hazard uses. A local enforcing agency that accepts this responsibility shall inspect each multiple dwelling that is not a life hazard use and each hotel that is not a life hazard use at a frequency not less than that currently provided for in the rules for the Maintenance of Hotels and Multiple Dwellings, N.J.A.C. 5:10.

1. A local enforcing agency may, by ordinance, establish reasonable fees to cover the cost of such inspections, in accordance with 5:71-2.3(b).

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