Ordinances establishing rules and regulations for the construction of buildings, including, but not limited to the installation of plumbing, electrical wiring, outdoor signs, or other similar work of construction or installation, and governing conditions hazardous to life and property, and a code of existing and properly adopted ordinances where such rules and regulations or ordinance codes have been printed as a code or codes in book form may be adopted by reference to such code or codes or such portions thereof in the manner provided by the general laws of the State of California. Ordinances of the City of Chico may adopt by reference as all or a part of such ordinance all or any portion of any general law of the State of California, without including the specific wording of such law in such ordinance.