There is hereby adopted by the City of Pineland, Texas, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain code known as the Standard Fire Prevention Code, recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being particularly 1997 the edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as may be deleted, modified, or amended as provided by Sections 5.205 and 5.206 of this article, of which code not less than three (3) copies have been and now are filed in the office of the city secretary of the City of Pineland, Texas, and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this article shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the city limits of the City of Pineland, Texas.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
The fire prevention code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the fire marshal.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
Wherever the word “municipality” is used in the fire prevention code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the City of Pineland, Texas.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
The limits referred to in the fire prevention code hereby adopted in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, and the limits referred to in the code hereby adopted, in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, are hereby established as follows:
All areas which have been zoned as residential or first commercial.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
The fire prevention code hereby adopted may be amended and changed from time to time by the city council, as need may arise and upon recommendation of the fire marshal.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
The fire marshal shall have the power to modify any of the provisions of the fire prevention code adopted upon application in writing by the owner or lessee, or his duly authorized agent, when there are practical difficulties 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. The particulars of 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 the applicant.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
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 prevention code do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of the code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the fire marshal to the city council of the City of Pineland, Texas, within thirty (30) days from the date of the decision.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)
(a) 
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the fire prevention code hereby adopted or fail 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 there under, 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 city council of Pineland, Texas, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed herein, shall severally for each and every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provision in Section 1.109 of this code. The imposition of one (1) 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.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 5, Section 1)