There is adopted by the city, 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, Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being particularly the latest edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended by Section 5.12.030, of which code not less than three copies have been and now are filed in the office of the clerk of the city and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length in this chapter, and from the date on which the ordinance codified in this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the city. It shall be the responsibility of the chief of the fire department to schedule systematic and orderly fire inspections as set forth in the Fire Prevention Code under Section 14 of the General Provisions.
(Prior code § 7.401)