The fire prevention code shall be enforced by the chief of the fire department.
(Ordinance 39, sec. 2, adopted 8/8/77; 2004 Code, sec. 7.01)
Wherever the word “municipality” is used in the fire prevention code, it shall be held to mean the City of Howardwick, Texas.
(Ordinance 39, sec. 3, adopted 8/8/77; 2004 Code, sec. 7.02)
The chief of the fire department shall have the power to submit modifications of the provisions of the code hereby adopted upon application in writing. All modifications must be approved by the municipality.
(Ordinance 39, sec. 4, adopted 8/8/77; 2004 Code, sec. 7.03; Ordinance adopting 2023 Code)
Whenever the chief of the fire department shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the provisions of the 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 chief of the fire department within 30 days from the date of the decision appealed.
(Ordinance 39, sec. 5, adopted 8/8/77; 2004 Code, sec. 7.04)
(a) 
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the fire prevention code 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 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 board of aldermen or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein, shall severally, for each and every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed the maximum allowable by state statute. 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 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.
(Ordinance 39, sec. 6, adopted 8/8/77; 2004 Code, sec. 7.05)