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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1993 vote, Council approved the supplemental appropriation. Several members of Council thanked Mr. Dahlquist for appearing at two Council meetings to support this request. Upon motion, duly seconded and by unanimous vote, Council adopted, on second reading, the following Ordinance No. 93-1: WHEREAS, the Virginia Board of Housing and Community adopted the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code, hereinafter referred to as the SFPC; and Development sometimes WHEREAS, the said SFPC provides that it may be enforced by any local government or by the State Fire Marshal in those jurisdictions in which the local governments do not enforce said Code, and that any local government enforcing same may assign responsibility for its enforcement to a fire official of its choice and may establish such procedures or requirements as may be necessary for said enforcement, and may also adopt fire prevention regulations that are more restrictive or more extensive in scope than the SFPC provided that such regulations are not more restrictive than the Uniform State Building Code and do not affect the manner of construction, or materials to be used in the erection, alteration, repair, or use of the building or structure; and WHEREAS, said SFPC also provides that the fees for any permit required thereby shall be stipulated in the local regulations; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled on January 26, 1993, that Article III of Chapter 9 of the Code of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, be amended as follows: ARTICLE III. FIRE PREVENTION CODE Sec. 9-46. Enforcement. That certain Fire Prevention Code known as the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code, duly adopted by the Virginia Board of Housing and Community Development pursuant to the authority of Section 27-97 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, shall be enforced in the City of Martinsville, Virginia, by its local government, and the responsibility for said enforcement is hereby assigned to the fire official, who shall be the City Fire Marshal, and who shall be empowered to exercise all the enforcement authority described and provided in said SFPC. The Martinsville board of appeals is hereby designated as the appeals board to hear appeals arising for the application of the provisions of "The Statewide Fire Prevention Code." Sec. 9-47. Permits. No permit required by the SFPC which also requires an on-premises inspection by the fire official shall be issued until a fee of $25.00