(A) There is hereby adopted, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, the most current adopted edition of the North Carolina State Building Code: Fire Prevention Code, including all appendices and all subsequent amendments and revisions. A copy of such is on file in the office of the Clerk of the Village of Clemmons and the same is hereby incorporated herein as if set out verbatim.
(B) Amendments to codes and standards adopted by reference herein which are adopted and published by the North Carolina State Building Code Council shall be effective in the Village of Clemmons at the time such amendments become a part of North Carolina State Building Code: Fire Prevention Code.
(C) Criminal penalty. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions on the Fire Prevention Code adopted herein, or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted or approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, shall, severally for each and every violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $500, subject to the provisions in G.S. § 14-4. The application of the penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(Ord. 93-18, passed 12-20-93; Am. Ord. 2019-04, passed 6-24-19; Am. Ord. 2022-03, passed 4-25-22)