There is hereby adopted by the city council for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code, Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being particularly the 1965 edition thereof, and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended, of which code one copy has been and now is filed in the office of the city administrator-secretary as a public record and duly authenticated by the city administrator-secretary, and the same is 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.
(Ordinance 553, sec. 1, adopted 7/5/1967; Ordinance adopting 1994 Code; 1994 Code, sec. 5.401)
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the chief of the fire department.
(Ordinance 553, sec. 2, adopted 7/5/1967; 1994 Code, sec. 5.402)
Wherever the word "municipality" is used in the code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the City of Stanton, Texas.
(Ordinance 553, sec. 3, adopted 7/5/1967; 1994 Code, sec. 5.403)
The chief of the fire department shall have power to modify any of the provisions of the code hereby 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 modifications when granted or allowed and the decision of the chief of the fire department thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
(Ordinance 553, sec. 5, adopted 7/5/1967; 1994 Code, sec. 5.404)
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 thirty (30) days from the date of the decision appealed.
(Ordinance 553, sec. 6, adopted 7/5/1967; 1994 Code, sec. 5.405)
(a) 
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the 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 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 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 found 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.
(Ordinance 553, sec. 7, adopted 7/5/1967; 1994 Code, sec. 5.406)