(A) Indiana Code 36-1-3-1 et seq. and I.C. 22-13-2-2 authorize the Town Council to adopt an ordinance regulating the erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, structural repair, moving, removal, demolition, conversion, occupancy, equipment, use, height, area and maintenance of all buildings and/or structures in the town; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore; providing penalties for the violation thereof.
(B) This subchapter, and all ordinances supplemental or amendatory hereto, shall be known as the Building Code of the Town of Beverly Shores, Indiana, may be cited as so, and will be referred to herein as this subchapter.
(C) The purpose of this subchapter is to provide minimum standards for the protection of life, limb, health, environment, public safety and welfare, and for the conservation of energy in the design and construction of buildings and structures.
(D) (1) The Building Commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to administer and enforce all of the provisions of this subchapter, except as otherwise provided by law, regulation, statute or ordinance of the United States, State of Indiana or its political subdivision, including but not limited to Chapter 155.
(2) Whenever in the building regulations, it is provided that anything must be done to the approval of or subject to the direction at the Building Commissioner or any other officer of the town, this shall be construed to give the officer only the discretion of determining whether the rules and standards established by ordinance has been complied with; and no provision shall be construed as giving any officer discretionary powers as to what regulations, codes or standards shall be, or power to require conditions not prescribed by ordinances or to enforce ordinance provisions in an arbitrary or discriminatory manner.
(Ord. 195, passed 11-5-1982 (84-33))