§ 10-2. Same—Appeal from decision or interpretation of building official; procedure.

(a)

The building official is hereby designated as the "authority having jurisdiction" for the 2012 Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association. Whenever the building official shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a license or 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 has been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant making such contention may appeal from the decision of the building official to the fire code board of appeals within thirty (30) calendar days from the date of the decision of the building official.

(b)

The fire code board of appeals referred to in this section is the board of appeals provided for by the Arkansas State Fire Prevention Code, Volume 1, currently in force in the city as adopted in section 10-31. It is expressly determined that such fire code board of appeals has those powers and duties provided for in Volume 1, section 108, of the 2012 Arkansas State Fire Prevention Code.

(c)

Except as expressly set forth in this section, the procedure for the handling of such appeals from the decisions of the fire official/building official to the fire code board of appeals, including the finality of decisions thereof, shall be those procedures which are specified in the 2012 Arkansas State Fire Prevention Code.

(Code 1976, § 12-28; Ord. No. 82-92, § 2, 12-8-92; Ord. No. 83-92, § 2, 12-8-92; Ord. No. 36-99, § 3, 5-18-99; Ord. No. 79-09, § 2, 9-15-09; Ord. No. 84-09, 10-6-09; Ord. No. 42-14, § 1, 8-5-14; Ord. No. 51-14, § 2, 9-2-14)