• Date Due: October 17, 2025
  • Author: Department of Fire Programs
  • Enabling Authority: Appropriation Act - Item 407 C. (Regular Session, 2025)
  • Description:
    Report on the findings of the assessment of the fees charged by the State Fire Marshal's Office to conduct fire safety inspections, including a review of (i) existing inspection fees, (ii) the number of inspections conducted by fee category, (iii) the cost of conducting each inspection, and (iv) the total revenue from each fee category to determine whether there is a need to adjust the fees based on the market cost of conducting inspections, and a joint recommendation from the Virginia Fire Services Board and the Board of Housing and Community Development on whether the fees should be adjusted or not, including a description of which fees, if any, are recommended for an increase based on the market cost and the projected additional fee revenue that would result from such recommended increase.