The short answer is local code inspectors do have to follow international law,To quote Al Borland: "I don't think so Tim".
Besides, given what you've cited here you're mixing local 'building codes' in with something about forest fire fighting and what appears to be 'locally adopted' regulations that also appear somewhere else; this in itself does not seem onerous - and THAT is what you have to point out, the onerous part that is. I can't simply allow you to infer via a quote in an article that something is 'bad' simply because it was 'copied' from a foreign source ...