(A) This section shall be known as the “Harnett County Fire Prevention Ordinance”, hereinafter referred to as “this section”. This section adopts the 2018 edition of the North Carolina State Building Code: Fire Prevention Code 2015 IFC with North Carolina Amendments (excluding Appendices A-J), and any future Fire Prevention Codes as amended from time to time by the North Carolina State Building Code Board. This Code (excluding Appendices A-J) is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully set out at length herein. The provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the county including municipalities for which the county provides fire inspection services by contract agreement.
(B) Any matter in this section which is contrary to existing procedure shall prevail and to that extent any existing ordinance to the contrary in areas within the county are repealed in that respect only.
(C) Within this section when reference is made to the Fire Official and his or her duties therein that the Fire Marshal of the county or his or her designee shall be deemed to be the responsible official insofar as enforcing the provisions of this section is concerned.
(D) The frequency of inspection is a local right granted to the Board of Commissioners of the county by action of the state’s Building Code Council on September 10, 1991 and is determined as follows:
(1) Once every year for hazardous, institutional, high rise, assembly, and multi-family residential;
(2) Once every two years for educational except public schools and industrial; and
(3) Once every three years for businesses, mercantile, storage, churches, and synagogues.
(E) The county’s Board of Commissioners shall establish fees for permits, inspections, certificates, approvals, and other functions performed pursuant to this section, as the county Board of Commissioners deem necessary.
(Ord. passed 9-24-1991; Ord. passed 2-1-1993; Ord. passed 7-21-1997; Ord. passed 10-20-2014; Ord. passed 8-19-2019)