(a) The Director must prepare informational material designed to provide the public and prospective developers with a clear understanding of the procedures to be followed in securing approval of fire safety aspects of construction or rehabilitation projects. This information must be transmitted to the department or office responsible for the compilation and publication of the development manual required in subsection (d)(2) of section 2-27A for integration into such manual. Further, the Director must assure that all proposed regulatory and procedural changes regarding fire safety requirements are made available to the responsible department or office for inclusion in the agenda of regulatory change called for in subsection (d)(4) of section 2-27A. Furthermore, all significant interpretations of fire safety code provisions and all general waivers or precedent-setting waivers to such code provisions must be similarly forwarded to the responsible department or office in standardized format for circulation to users of the development manual.
(b) The Director is authorized and directed to designate a staff member(s) or a unit within the Department of Permitting Services to be responsible for providing information required herein to the public and to maintain a continuing liaison with industry representatives and other governmental agencies regulating or monitoring housing construction and occupancy. (1979 L.M.C., ch. 41, § 3; 2016 L.M.C., ch. 30, §1.)
Editor’s note-1979 L.M.C., ch. 41, § 4 provides that the provisions of such act adding new section 22- 4A; subsections (e) and (f) to section 22-6; and section 22-15A shall be implemented by the department of fire and rescue services no later than July 1, 1979, although the provisions of subsection (d) of section 22-4A shall be implemented no later than October 1, 1979.