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Day care inspection fee fact sheet continued... When licensure under this chapter requires an inspection by afire marshal to detennine compliance with the Minnesota Uniform Fire Code (MUFC) under section 299F.Oll.... This chapter refers to Minnesota Statue 245A, HUMAN SERVICES LICENSING, which is the Department of Human Services (DHS) primary authority for licensing. Family Day Care, Group Family Day Care and Child Day Care Centers are required by this chapter to be licensed. Compliance with the MUFC is a part of that licensing process. .... a local fire code inspector approved by the state/ire marshal rnay conduct the inspection. For the purposes of this statute, the State Fire Marshal defines local fire code inspector as an employee of a city, or duly organized fire department, whose primary responsibility is the enforcement of the fire code through an inspection program. For the purposes of this statute, "approved" means that the city or fire department is willing to conduct these inspections of day care facilities, and will send at least one representative to at least one day eare inspection training session conducted by the State Fire Marshal. If a communi~y does not have a local fire code inspector or if the local fire code inspector does not perform the inspection, the state fire marshal must conduct the inspection. Self-explanatory. A localfire code inspector or the state fire marshal may recover the cost o.l these inspections through afee of no more than $50 per inspection charged to the applicant or the license holder. The charging of a fee is at the discretion of the inspecting agency. The State Fire Marshal Division will charge a $50 fee for both the initial inspection, and any follow-up inspections. The following applies only to the State Fire Marshal. The fees collected by the state lire marshal under this section are appropriated to the commissioner public s4ety for the purposes of conducting the inspection. The Department of Public Safety, State Fire Marshal Division will not accept personal checks for payment of the fee. Payment must be in the form of a money order or cashier's check made payable to DPS - State Fire Marshal. The fee must also be attached to the inspection request sent to the State Fire Marshal. Requests received by the State Fire Marshal without the fee attached will be [ctllmed to the scmle>-. ~ \ Questions should be directed to Patrick Sheehan, Bureau Chief of Inspections at 651- 215-0506, or to pat.sheehan@state.mn.us. 1):1) (':1\\' Ilhl'''Tli''\1 I,',' hlCl SII""\ ,\llgll';\ I, '11(\' P;lgl' -j ul' \