Section 118-26 ADOPTION OF STANDARDS; PREVALENCE OF MORE STRINGENT PROVISIONS.

There is hereby adopted by reference, as fully as if set out at length herein, by the Council, for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the installation of gas appliances and gas piping, that certain pamphlet entitled "Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping," as recommended by the National Fire Protection Association, dated August 1959, being designated pamphlet NBFU No. 54, and such Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping are 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 so adopted shall be controlling in the installation of gas appliances and gas piping within the town; provided, however, that in the event of conflict or inconsistency between the Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping hereby adopted and the provisions of other ordinances of the town, the more stringent provisions shall be construed to control.