The North Carolina State Building Code, as enacted and published by the state’s Building Code Board and as modified by the accumulative supplements thereto covering amendments passed and ratified, is adopted by reference as fully as though set forth herein as the Building Code of the town to the extent the code is applicable for safe and stable design, methods of construction, minimum standards and use of materials in buildings or structures hereafter erected, enlarged, altered, repaired or otherwise constructed or reconstructed.