A certain document, three (3) copies of which are on file in the office of the city secretary and the city, marked and designated as the International Fire Code, 2024 edition, including all appendix chapters, as published by the International Code Council, Incorporated, is hereby adopted as the fire code of the city for regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, erection, installation, alteration, repair, location, relocation, replacement, addition to and use or maintenance of fire suppression/control systems in the city and providing for the issuance of permits and the collection of fees therefor. Each and all of the regulations, provisions, conditions and terms of the International Fire Code, 2024 edition, published by the International Code Council, Incorporated, and on file in the office of the city secretary, are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part hereof as if fully set out in this article.
(Ordinance 1441 adopted 2/24/2025; Ordinance 1224, sec. 8, adopted 11/14/16)
The following sections of the International Fire Code, 2024 edition, published by the International Code Council, Incorporated, are revised as follows:
Section 101.1. Title. These provisions shall be known as the International Fire Code of the city and shall be cited as such and will be referred to as “this code.”
Section 103.2 Appointment. The building official shall be the city manager or chief building official.
(Ordinance 1441 adopted 2/24/2025; Ordinance 1224, sec. 8, adopted 11/14/16)
The fire marshal shall have power to modify the effect of any of the provisions of the fire code upon particular property, upon application in writing by the owner or lessee or his or her duly authorized agent, when there are practical obstacles in the way of carrying out the strict letter of the code, provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured and substantial justice done; and the particulars of any such modification, when granted or allowed, and the decision of the fire marshal thereon, shall be entered upon the records of the city, and a signed copy shall be furnished to the applicant.
(2004 Code, sec. 5.05.005)
(a) 
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the code hereby adopted or who fails to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the fire marshal or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein, shall severally for each such violation and noncompliance, respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in section 1.01.009 of this code. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time; and, when not otherwise specified, each ten (10) days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
(b) 
The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(2004 Code, sec. 5.05.006)
Whenever the fire marshal shall disapprove an application, or refuse to grant a license or permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the provisions of the fire code do not apply or that the same has been wrongly interpreted by the fire marshal, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the fire marshal to the board of appeals within thirty (30) days from the date of the decision of the fire marshal.
(2004 Code, sec. 5.05.007)