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RES-2016-021 Attachment 2
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RESOLUTION OF AMENDMENT
A RESOLUTION AMENDING CHAPTER 14 OF THE ORANGE COUNTY CODE
OF ORDINANCES
Be it Resolved and Ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina:
WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina has adopted a fire prevention code that is effective
throughout the state; and
WHEREAS, the fire prevention code contains appendices that assist local authorities in protecting
the health, safety, and welfare of residents; and
WHEREAS, the appendices are not effective throughout the state but the state authorizes counties
to adopt the appendices by ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, believing it to be in the best interest of
the citizens and residents of Orange County, hereby determines that Chapter 14 of the Orange
County Code of Ordinances should be amended by adopting appendices B, C, D, F, and H of the
North Carolina Fire Prevention Code to assist in the prevention of fires.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AND ORDAINED, that the Code of Ordinances, Orange
County, North Carolina, Chapter 14, is hereby amended by adding a section to be numbered 14-1,
which section reads as shown in the attached revised ordinance to adopt the appendices to the
North Carolina Fire Prevention Code.
This Amendment shall become effective upon adoption.
Adopted by the Orange County Board of Commissioners this _____ day of ___________, 2016.
By:
Attest:
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Earl McKee, Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners
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Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board
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