Notwithstanding any provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, a municipality or the commissioners of a fire district pursuant to N.J.S. 40A:14-81 may adopt and provide for the enforcement of a fire safety maintenance code or continue to enforce an existing fire safety maintenance code. The provisions of the “State Uniform Construction Code Act,” P.L.1975, c. 217 (C. 52:27D-119 et seq.) providing for the adoption and enforcement of a fire prevention subcode as part of the State Uniform Construction Code shall apply to fire prevention-related construction activities which are defined as those fire prevention-related construction activities, which in any way may affect, pertain to, or involve the issuance of a construction permit or initial certificate of occupancy under said act. No fire safety maintenance code or the enforcement thereof by any municipality or commissioners of a fire district pursuant to N.J.S. 40A:14-81 shall in any way conflict with or otherwise affect the terms and enforcement of the State Uniform Construction Code adopted pursuant to the “State Uniform Construction Code Act,” P.L.1975, c. 217 (C. 52:27D-119 et seq.).

L.1975, c. 317, s. 2.