The specific provisions of building and fire codes are often referred to as:

• A. Statutes
• B. Standards
• C. Ordinances
• D. Codes

Answer: (C)

The enforceable rules come into local ordinances. Building and fire codes are organized collections of requirements, but the actual legal force behind those provisions in a city or town comes from the ordinance that adopts and enforces the code. So, while the code itself is the reference document, the specific provisions that govern work and safety are typically referred to as ordinances because they are the local laws enacted to adopt and enforce the code.

For context, statutes are laws at the state or federal level, standards are consensus documents from organizations that inform codes, and codes are the published sets of requirements. The ordinance is the vehicle by which a jurisdiction makes the code’s provisions binding in that locality.