1371.02 PURPOSES; INSPECTIONS BY THE BUILDING INSPECTOR AND FIRE INSPECTOR.

   This Commercial Code is intended to regulate all structures in the City except one, two and three-family dwellings, which are regulated in Chapters 1351 et seq. (the Housing Code). The purposes of this Code are to establish minimum standards necessary to make exterior property areas and parts of a structure, where possession and control remain with the owner or owner's agent (public areas), safe, sanitary, free from fire and health hazards, fit for human occupancy and beneficial to the public welfare; to establish minimum standards governing the maintenance of such structures and exterior property areas in such condition as to prevent blight or deteriorating conditions in the neighborhood and the City; to fix responsibilities for owners and occupants of commercial structures with respect to sanitation, repair and maintenance; to authorize the inspection of land and structures; to establish enforcement procedures; to authorize the vacation or condemnation of structures unsafe or unfit for human occupancy; and to provide penalties for violations. 

   While it is the primary purpose of this Commercial Code to inspect in accordance with this Code, the Building Commissioner, the Fire Inspector and their respective assistants may inspect any or all of any land or structure when such inspection is determined to be necessary by the inspecting officer. 

(Ord. 1992-114. Passed 11-16-92.)