(A) Codes adopted. There are hereby adopted for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain code known as the “Fire Prevention Code”, recommended by the National Fire Protection Association, and that certain code known as the “Life Safety Code”, recommended by the National Fire Protection Association, being particularly the latest editions thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended by this code. At least one copy of the Fire Prevention Code and the Life Safety Code is on file in the office of the town’s Clerk-Treasurer. The Fire Prevention Code and the Life Safety Code are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein; and from the date on which this code shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the town.
(B) Authority to amend codes.
(1) The town’s Board of Trustees shall have power to modify any of the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code and the Life Safety Code upon application in writing by the owner or lessee, or his or her duly authorized agent, when there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter of the code; provided that, the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured and substantial justice done.
(2) The particulars of such modification, when granted or allowed, and the decision of the Fire Chief and Board of Trustees thereon shall be entered upon the records of the Board of Trustees, and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
(Prior Code, § 9-2-1)