Fire Safety Inspections and Fire Code Enforcement

Fire Code Enforcement: is the administrative and legal process of insuring that new building projects are designed and built using nationally recognized and locally adopted codes that reduce or eliminate the cause or spread of fire.  It also pertains to the maintenance of existing buildings in manners of fire safety construction and practices. Punitive enforcement actions are implemented only when other methods fail.

The goal of an enforcement program is compliance. If violations are not corrected a violator is subject to a fine of $500-$2000 per violation, each day the violation continues. The current codes that the Burnet Fire Marshal’s Office enforces are the:

2009 International Fire Code

2009 International Building Code

2009 International Residential Building Code

2009 Life Safety Code (NFPA 101)

Their references and the Code of Ordinance of the City of Burnet

Fire Inspection: The physical act of scrutinizing existing businesses and buildings to locate and correct fire safety violations and hazardous conditions that could make that place more susceptible a fire that could cause the loss of life or property.

Commercial occupancies within the city limits of Burnet, Texas will receive a fire safety inspection once per calendar year. 

The saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” is never truer than when it comes to fire. The cost of preventing a fire is hundreds of times less than the cost of fighting the fire that starts. Inspecting buildings and facilities to eliminate the causes of accidental fires is the first step in the fight against fire.