§ 95.133 CODE VIOLATIONS.

   Code violations will be based on this chapter and the NCFC.

(Ord. passed - -; Ord. passed 11-6-2023)

§ 95.134 APPEALS.

   (A)   Appeals from citations under the fire code. Any appeal arising from any citation, order, decision or determination pertaining to the State Building Code, including the fire code, as adopted herein, shall be taken to the Commissioner of Insurance, or the Commissioner’s designee, by filing a written notice with the Commissioner of Insurance, and county officials, within a period of ten days of the citation, order, decision or determination (G.S. § 160D-1127 and § 143-139).

   (B)   Appeals from citations under this chapter, not within the fire code. Any appeal arising from any citation, order, decision or determination pertaining to the requirements of this chapter that are not within the fire code, shall be filed with the County Manager’s office by filing a written notice of appeal within a period of ten days of the citation, order, decision or determination.

(Ord. passed 11-6-2023)

SCHEDULED INSPECTIONS

§ 95.145 INSPECTIONS; GENERALLY.

   The County Fire Marshal’s office will respond to any fire safety-related or fire code complaint made to that office. Otherwise, inspections of occupancies and businesses will be provided per the NCFC according to this chapter. The frequency rates for the inspection of occupancies as mandated by the North Carolina General Statutes shall supersede this schedule.

(Ord. passed - -; Ord. passed 11-6-2023)

§ 95.146 ANNUAL.

   (A)   Generally. The following facilities and buildings are subject to inspection a minimum of once a year, subject to the terms of this chapter.

   (B)   Assembly occupancy. Amusement park building, auditorium (less than 1,000 capacity), auditorium (1,000 or greater capacity), bowling alleys, court rooms, dance halls, night clubs, exhibit

halls, libraries, meeting centers, haunted houses, motion picture theaters, museums, passenger depots, public assembly halls, recreation facilities, restaurants, stadiums, grandstands, and tents;

   (C)   Public educational facilities. Public elementary, middle, and high schools shall be inspected at a minimum of two times per year.

   (D)   Hazardous occupancy. Chemical-processing and/or storage, manufacturing facility, compressed/flammable/combustible gas storage, distribution facility, dry cleaners, explosive facility storage, use, manufacturing, distribution, flammable/combustible-liquid processing storage, manufacturing, flammable/combustible-liquid storage distribution centers, hazardous-material handling and processing, hazardous-material storage facility, hazardous-material production facility, hazardous-material waste disposal facility, L.P. and natural-gas distribution facility, and laboratories/research development centers;

   (E)   Institutional occupancy. Correction facilities, detention centers, detoxification facilities, hospitals/mental hospitals, jails, reformatories, residential-custodial facilities, nursing homes, and day-care centers; and

   (F)   Residential occupancy. Apartment houses (common areas), boarding houses, day-care homes, dormitories, fraternities and sororities, group homes (not classified as Group I), hotels/motels, residential-care facilities (not classified as Group I).

(Ord. passed - -; Ord. passed 11-6-2023)

§ 95.147 ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS.

   (A)   The following facilities and buildings are subject to inspections, at a minimum, at least once every two years.

   (B)   Educational above the twelfth grade (every two years); and

   (C)   Industrial occupancy: assembly plant, factory, furniture/woodworking, manufacturing facility, processing plant, textile, and fabrication facility.

(Ord. passed - -; Ord. passed 11-6-2023)