141.08 FIRE/ARSON INVESTIGATION.

   (a)    An Employee or employees within the Fire Department may be designated by the Fire Chief as "Fire Investigators" pursuant to Ohio R.C. 737.27.

   (b)    Such Fire Investigators shall investigate, or cause to be investigated, every fire or explosion occurring within the jurisdiction of Mayfield Village that is of suspicious nature or which involves the loss of life or serious injury or causes destruction or damage to property. Such investigations may go outside the jurisdiction of Mayfield Village by mutual agreements with adjoining or regional communities.

   (c)   Such fire investigators must receive the required training, and be duly sworn as a law enforcement officer, and shall have the power and duty to investigate the cause of all fires, examine witnesses, compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books and papers and to do and perform all other acts necessary to the effective discharge of such duties.

   (d)    Any member of the Fire Department of the Village who has received the required training and been duly sworn in accordance with this section, and designated by the Fire Chief to perform such duties, shall be permitted to administer oaths, make arrests, bear firearms, and enter, for the purpose of examination, any building which, in his or her opinion, is in danger from fire.

(Ord. 2020-36. Passed 2-15-21.)

   141.09 EFFECTIVE DATE.

   For enforcement purposes, this Chapter shall be construed as having the same effective date and any dates listed in this Chapter are for historical purposes. (Ord. 2020-36. Passed 2-15-21.)