NRS266.310. Fire department; arson investigators; storage of hazardous material; fire code.

  The city council may:

      1.  Organize, regulate and maintain a fire department.

      2.  Prescribe the duties of the fire chief.

      3.  Designate arson investigators as peace officers.

      4.  Regulate or prohibit the storage of any explosive, combustible or inflammable material in or transported through the city, and prescribe the distance from any residential or commercial area where it may be kept. Any ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection that regulates places of employment where explosives are stored must be at least as stringent as the standards and procedures adopted by the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry pursuant to NRS 618.890.

      5.  Establish, by ordinance, a fire code and other regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

      [Part 28:125:1907; RL § 794; NCL § 1128]—(NRS A 1971, 303; 1985, 261; 1999, 1858)