Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 228

BOWERS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 207, VOLUME 24, LAWS OF DELAWARE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF BOWERS," AS AMENDED, BY PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A FIRE MARSHALL AND DEFINING HIS DUTIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the Members elected to each House of the General Assembly concurring therein):

Section 1. That Chapter 207, Volume 24, Laws of Delaware as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out and repealing Section 8 of said Chapter and enacting in lieu thereof the following:

Section 8. That the Commissioners of the said Town may appoint such number of town constables as shall be deemed necessary, who shall constitute the Town Police, and may also appoint a Fire Marshall. The Commissioners shall also have power and authority to remove any of the Constables or the Fire Marshall at any time and appoint others in the place of those removed if it shall be deemed necessary to make such appointment or appointments. It shall be the duty of the Fire Marshall to inspect or cause to be inspected, as often as may be deemed necessary, a]] buildings, premises and public thoroughfares for the purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions likely to cause fire or for the purpose of ascertaining any violations of the provision of any ordinance of said Commissioners of the Town of Bowers relating to fire hazards.

Approved June 8, 1949.