Sec. 5-6. State building code adopted.
   The minimum standards, provisions and requirements for safe and stable design, methods of construction and usage of materials in buildings and structures erected, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, converted to other uses or demolished and the equipment, maintenance, use and occupancy of all buildings and structures in the town to which the state building code applies, shall be regulated by the North Carolina State Building Code, which is hereby adopted and incorporated in this chapter by reference as though fully set forth herein, and such amendments thereto as are prepared and published from time to time by the state building code council and approved by the state insurance commissioner. A certified copy of such code is on file in the office of the town clerk.
State law reference— Municipal authority to adopt building codes by reference, G.S. 160A-76, 143-138(e); state building codes, G.S. 143-138 et seq.