(a) Pursuant to R.C. § 731.231, there is hereby adopted by and for the city the Ohio Building Code (OBC), being particularly the current edition thereof, as adopted by the Ohio Board of Building Standards, Department of Industrial Relations, save and except such portions thereof as may be hereinafter amended or deleted.
(b) The edition of the Ohio Mechanical Code (OMC), the current edition of the Ohio Plumbing Code (OPC), and the current edition of the National Electric Code (NFPA 70), the current edition of the International Energy Code, as adopted by the Board of Building Standards, Department of Industrial Relations, are hereby adopted by reference, save and except such portions thereof as may be hereinafter amended or deleted.
(Ord. 47-98, passed 3-9-1998; Ord. 63-2002, passed 3-11-2002; Ord. 58-05, passed 4-25-2005; Ord. 97-2012, passed 6-25-2012; Ord. 99-2018, passed 6-11-2018; Ord. 125-2020, passed 12-21-2020)
The purpose of the OBC, as adopted in § 1410.01, is to:
(a) Provide uniform minimum standards and requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration and maintenance of buildings, including construction of industrialized units, such standards relating to the conservation of energy, safety and sanitation of buildings for their intended use and occupancy;
(b) Formulate such standards and requirements, so far as is practical, in terms of performance objectives, so as to make adequate performance for the use intended the test of acceptability;
(c) Permit, to the fullest extent feasible, the use of materials and technical methods, devices and improvements, including the use of industrialized units, which tend to reduce the cost of construction and erection without affecting minimum requirements for the health, safety and security of the occupants or users of buildings or industrialized units and without preferential treatment of types or classes of materials or products or methods of construction; and
(d) Encourage, so far as may be practical, the standardization of construction practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including methods employed to produce industrialized units.
Statutory reference:
Intent and purpose of the Ohio Building Code, see O.A.C. 4101:1-1-01, § 101.3
The OBC applies to all buildings except as follows:
(a) Single-family, two-family and three-family dwelling houses which are not constructed of industrialized units, except for the energy conservation provisions required in Chapter 13, Energy Efficiency of the OBC, O.A.C. Chapter 4101:1-13 (see R.C. §§ 3781.06 and 3781.10);
(b) Buildings owned by and used for a function of the United States government;
(c) Existing buildings where their location, parts, equipment and other items do not constitute a serious hazard, unless otherwise regulated by the provisions of Chapter 34, Existing Buildings and Structures of the OBC, O.A.C. Chapter 4101:1-34;
(d) Buildings constructed in accordance with plans which have been approved prior to the effective date of the OBC;
(e) Buildings or structures which are incident to the use for agricultural purposes of the land on which said buildings or structures are located, provided such buildings or structures are not used in the business of retail trade. For the purposes of this section, a building or structure is not considered used in the business of retail trade if 50% or more of the gross income received from sales of products in the building or structure by the owner or operator is from sales of products produced or raised in a normal crop year on farms owned or operated by the seller (see R.C. §§ 3781.06 and 3781.061);
(f) Agricultural labor camps as defined in R.C. § 3733.41;
(g) Single-family, two-family and three-family detached dwelling houses for which applications have been submitted to the Ohio Director of Human Services pursuant to R.C. § 5104.03 for the purposes of operating type A family day-care homes as defined in R.C. § 5104.01; and
(h) Buildings or structures which are designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with federal standards and regulations and are used primarily for federal and state military purposes where the U.S. Secretary of Defense, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. §§ 18233(A)(1) and 18237, has:
(1) Acquired, by purchase, lease or transfer, and constructs, expands, rehabilitates or corrects and equips, such buildings or structures as he or she determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes of Chapter 1803 of the U.S.C.;
(2) Contributed to the State of Ohio such amounts for the acquisition, construction, expansion, rehabilitation and conversion by the State of Ohio of such additional buildings or structures as he or she determines to be required because of the failure of existing facilities to meet the purposes of Chapter 1803 of the U.S.C.; or
(3) Contributed to the State of Ohio such amounts for the construction, alteration or rehabilitation of arms storage rooms as he or she determines to be required to meet a change in U.S. Department of Defense standards relating to the safekeeping of arms.
Statutory reference:
Exceptions to scope of the Ohio Building Code, see O.A.C. 4101:1-1-01, § 101.2
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