Any repair or alteration to any frame or wooden building or structure located within the secondary fire district and pre-existing the adoption of this article shall be in conformity herewith unless such repair or alteration shall be occasioned by destruction or damage to such pre-existing building or structure by fire, hurricane or other disaster which shall have damaged the building or structure such that the proposed repair or alteration thereof shall cost less than 50 percent of the value of the building or structure immediately prior to such disaster.
(Ord. No. 40, § 5, 6-18-1994)