GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	2 

SENATE BILL 499
Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 5/9/89

Short Title:  Arson Disincentives.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors:
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  
─────────────────────────────────────── 

March 20, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMPLETION OF FIRE INCIDENT REPORTS BY FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH REPORTS TO INSURANCE COMPANIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Article 1 of Chapter 69 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 69-7.2. Fire incident reports.
(a)	Whenever a fire department responds to a fire, the chief of that department shall complete or cause to be completed a fire incident report, which report shall be on a form prescribed by the Department of Insurance.
(b)	The fire department shall forward a copy of the completed form to the fire marshal of the county in which the fire occurred.  If there is no fire marshal in that county, the fire department shall forward a copy of the report to the county commissioners.  The fire department shall retain the original of the report.  The fire department and the fire marshall or county commissioners to whom reports are sent shall retain the reports for a period of five years.
(c)	At the request of any insurance company with whom a fire insurance claim has been made by an insured, the county fire marshal or county commissioners shall provide such insurance company, for a reasonable copying charge, a certified copy of the report."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective September 1, 1989.