Pursuant to Ohio R.C. 731.231, there is hereby adopted, for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the location, design, materials, construction, alteration, repair, equipment, use, occupancy, maintenance, removal and demolition of dwellings and appurtenant structures, except insofar as such matters are otherwise specifically provided for in the Ohio Building Code, adopted in Chapter 1301, or in any other applicable law or ordinance, that certain code known as the Regional Dwelling House Code, copyright 1966, by the Cuyahoga County Regional Planning Commission, save and except such portions as are hereinafter added, modified or deleted.