{"id":5009,"date":"2011-05-05T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2011-05-05T06:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:37:38","slug":"sc-radio-network-s-693-state-fire-marshall-appeal-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/sc-radio-network-s-693-state-fire-marshall-appeal-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Radio Network: S. 693 State Fire Marshall appeal extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article references to <a href=\"http:\/\/intranet.scstatehouse.gov\/sess119_2011-2012\/bills\/693.htm\" target=\"_blank\">S. 693<\/a>, a bill that extends the appeal time frame to the Office of State Fire Marshall<\/p>\n<p>Senate tweaks fire code law in response to audit by Matt Long on May 3, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) sponsored the bill. Businesses would have more time to appeal fire code violations under a bill heading through the South Carolina Legislature. It comes after an audit last year found the State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office was \u201cinconsistent\u201d in how it enforced the code.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate unanimously passed legislation last week that gives companies 30 days to appeal. Sen. Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) explains the current law only gives them 24 hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any small businessman will know that\u2019s almost impossible, for someone to walk in unannounced (and) write a citation and you only get 24 hours to appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Senators crafted the bill after a testy December hearing, when many businesses complained about what they considered \u201cabsurd\u201d rules. Sen. Glenn Reese (D-Spartanburg) had requested a Legislative Audit Council audit after some of his constituents complained.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant said the problem was that fire marshals weren\u2019t properly interpreting the law.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think we found the legislation\u2019s pretty clean. It\u2019s just a misinterpretation. That\u2019s where the problem was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Governor Nikki Haley appointed a new fire marshal, Adolf Zubia, to replace former Marshal John Reich earlier this year. Zubia promised legislators the problems would not continue under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>Code violations that present an \u201cimminent danger\u201d would still have to be fixed right away. An example of such a violation could be if a business kept a gas can next to a propane water heater.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article references to S. 693, a bill that extends the appeal time frame to the Office of State Fire Marshall Senate tweaks fire code law in response to audit by Matt Long on May 3, 2011 Sen. Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) sponsored the bill. Businesses would have more time to appeal fire code violations under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-1iN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}