There is hereby adopted by the City that certain code known as the Uniform Fire Code, recommended by the Western Fire Chiefs Association and the International Conference of Building Officials, being particularly the 1973 edition thereof and the whole thereof, of which code not less than three copies have been and now are filed in the office of the City Clerk, and at the same time are hereby adopted and incorporated as if fully set out at length herein; and from August 6, 1976 the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the City. (1985 Code, § 15.10.010)