<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 23-7. - Inspection schedule.</div>
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               (a)
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               In order to preserve and to protect public health and safety, and to satisfy the requirements
               of G.S. 160D-1102 and 160D-1207, the county shall have a periodic inspection schedule
               for the purpose of identifying activities and conditions in buildings, structures
               and premises that pose danger of fire, explosion, or related hazards as follows:
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               (1)
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               Once every year: hazardous, institutional, high rise, assembly (except as noted below),
               residential (except one-family and two-family dwellings) and only interior common
               areas of dwelling units of multifamily occupancies.
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               (2)
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               Once every two years: industrial and educational (except public schools).
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               (3)
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               Once every three years: assembly occupancies with an occupant load less than 100,
               business, mercantile, storage, churches, synagogues and miscellaneous Group U occupancies.
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               (b)
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               Frequency rates for inspections of occupancies as mandated by the General Statutes
               of the State of North Carolina, or any other applicable law, shall supersede this
               schedule.
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               (Ord. of 5-1-23(1), Â§ 1)
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