Section 78-3 ADOPTION OF STANDARDS; CONDITIONS.


There is hereby adopted as the Fire Prevention Code of the town, 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," recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being particularly the 1960 Edition thereof and the whole thereof, and such Fire Prevention Code is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein; and, from the date on which the Code of the Town of Front Royal, Virginia, shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the town, provided that:

A.    Whenever the word "municipality" is used in the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, it shall mean the Town of Front Royal.

B.    Wherever the term "Chief of the Fire Department" is used in the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, it shall mean the Building Inspector.

C.    Wherever the term "Corporate Counsel" is used in the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the Town Attorney.

D.    The limits referred to in Section 12.6b of the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, shall be as provided by the Council.

E.    The limits referred to in Section 16.22a of the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as the fire limits of the town.

F.    The limits referred to in Section 16.51 of the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, in which new bulk plants for flammable liquids are prohibited, shall be as provided by the council.

G.    The limits referred to in Section 21.6a of the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted, in which bulk storage of liquid petroleum gas is restricted, shall be as provided by council.

H.    In the event of conflict between the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted and the provisions of any other ordinance of the town, the more stringent provisions shall prevail.