2007 California Insurance Code Article 3. Powers

CA Codes (ins:10050-10052)

10050.  For the effective discharge of such duties, an underwriter's
corps may enter any burning building or any building in which
property is burning, or any building such corps or any officer
thereof deems to be immediately exposed to an existing fire or in
danger of taking fire from a burning building, and may remove or
otherwise protect any property from fire or damage by water during
and immediately after such fire.



10051.  Such corporation, with its officers and corps, when going to
a fire with its equipment, has the same right of way as the regular
fire department of the municipality in which such corporation is
operating, except as to such fire department.



10052.  All ordinances passed by the municipal authorities of any
city or town wherein such a corporation carries on business, and all
laws of this State applicable to such municipality which provide for
the punishment of any person or persons wilfully or carelessly
obstructing the progress of the apparatus of the fire department of
such municipality while going to a fire, or of any person or persons
wilfully or carelessly injuring any animal or property of said fire
department, shall likewise apply to such corporation to the same
extent as to such fire department.  Such laws and ordinances and
their penalties, may be enforced in the same courts and in the same
manner, and with equal force and effect in the case of such
corporation as in the case of the fire department.