(A) The Fire Chief, where a fire department is established, or the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees where no fire department exists, at all reasonable hours may enter into all buildings and upon all premises within his or her jurisdiction for the purpose of examination, in harmony with Neb. RS 81-501.01 to 81-531, the state’s Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1969, the Petroleum Products and Hazardous Substances Storage and Handling Act, being Neb. RS 81-15,117 et seq. and any other statutory duties imposed upon the State Fire Marshal.
(Neb. RS 81-512)
(B) It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief, when directed to do so by the Board of Trustees, to inspect or cause to be inspected by Fire Department officers, members or some other official as often as may be necessary, but not less than two times a year, all buildings, premises and public thoroughfares, except the interiors of private dwellings, for the purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions liable to create a fire hazard. The inspection shall be of the storage, sale and use of flammable liquids, combustibles and explosives; electric wiring and heating; the means and adequacy of exits, in case of fires in schools, churches, hotels, halls, theaters, factories, hospitals and all other buildings in which numbers of persons congregate from time to time for any purpose, whether publicly or privately owned; the design, construction, location, installation and operation of equipment for storing, handling and utilizing liquefied petroleum gases, specifying the odorization of such gases and the degree thereof; and chemicals, prozylin plastics, nitrocellulose films or any other hazardous material that may now or hereafter exist.