2015 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 41 - State Government
§ 41-2141 Department of fire, building and life safety; establishment; purposes; components

41-2141. Department of fire, building and life safety; establishment; purposes; components

A. The department of fire, building and life safety is established to further the public interest of safety and welfare by maintaining and enforcing standards of quality and safety for manufactured homes, mobile homes and factory-built buildings and by reducing hazards to life and property through the maintenance and enforcement of the state fire code by providing fire training, fire investigations and public life safety education as provided for in this chapter.

B. The department of fire, building and life safety has as an additional purpose the protection of the public interest in maintaining the substantial responsibility for interpreting and enforcing the terms of mobile home park rental agreements through its hearing officer functions and has exercised that responsibility for mobile home communities for many years, including interpretation of statutes regulating those common interest communities and the interpretation and enforcement of the otherwise private contracts and rules that govern those communities, even though the communities themselves are not directly licensed by the department. Accordingly, the department of fire, building and life safety performs a similar function for condominiums regulated by title 33, chapter 9 and planned communities regulated by title 33, chapter 16 in that the department, through its hearing officer function, applies and enforces the statutes regulating those common interest communities and the interpretation and enforcement of the otherwise private contracts and rules that govern those communities. Similarly, the department does not directly license those communities. It is also the purpose of the department to establish a procedure to protect the consumer of such products and services, including the owners in condominiums and planned communities as well as the renters in mobile home park communities.

C. The department of fire, building and life safety consists of the board of manufactured housing, the installation standards committee, the state fire safety committee and the director of the department. The director's office consists of the deputy director, the office of manufactured housing, the office of state fire marshal and the office of administration.

D. The attorney general shall act for the department in all legal actions or proceedings and shall advise the department on all questions of law arising out of the administration of this chapter.