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(a) The provisions of this Building Code shall apply to the location, design, materials, construction, alteration, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, maintenance, removal and demolition of every building and other structure, and to any appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings and other structures, except as such matters are otherwise specifically provided for in the Charter or under other titles of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland.
(b) The provisions of this Building Code shall supplement any and all laws of the State of Ohio and any and all rules and regulations promulgated by authority thereof, applicable to buildings and other structures in the City.
(c) If in any specific case there is an apparent difference in the materials, methods of construction or other requirements specified in different sections of this Building Code, or between the requirements of this Building Code and any other applicable ordinance, or rule or regulation of any administrative officer, board or commission of the City, the more restrictive shall govern.
(a) For the purposes of this Building Code the abbreviations, terms, phrases, words and their derivatives listed in this chapter shall have the meaning given herein.
(b) Definitions pertinent to specific chapters of this Building Code are included in such specific chapters. Unless specifically limited in scope, such definitions shall have general application throughout this Building Code.
(c) Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural includes the singular. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine gender.
(d) Words not defined in OBBC or this Building Code shall have the meanings given in the current edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
(a) Abbreviations used in this Building Code substance or if preceding or referring to standards and publications mean those contained in the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC), those authoring or promulgating agencies indicated in OAC Chapter 4101:2-46, and those as follows:
“BOCA” means Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc.
“CABO” means “CABO One and Two Family Dwelling Code” as promulgated by the Council of American Building Officials.
“ICC” means International Code Council.
“NFiPA” means National Fire Protection Association.
“OAC” means Ohio Administrative Code.
“OBC” means the Ohio Building Code, as contained in OAC Chapters 4101:2-1 to 4101:2-69. All references to OBBC in this Building Code shall hereafter mean OBC.
“OCIEB” means Ohio Construction Industry Examining Board.
“ORC 123” means Ohio Residential Code for One, Two and Three Family Dwellings as promulgated by the Ohio Building Officials Association. Any reference to CABO shall mean ORC 123.
(Ord. No. 2370-01. Passed 5-13-02, eff. 5-20-02)
Note: The 2002 Ohio Building Code, effective January 1, 2002, as contained in the Ohio Administrative Code, was renumbered as OAC Chapters 4101:1-1 to 4101:1-35.
The definitions contained in OBC, and ORC 123 shall be applicable to this Building Code, except as supplemented or otherwise provided for as follows:
(a) “Approved” means approved by the Ohio Board of Building Standards or the City Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals, or approved by the Commissioner of Building and Housing under provisions of this Building Code, or approval by other authority designed by OBC or this Building Code to give approval in the matter in question.
(b) “Building Department” means the Division of Building and Housing.
(c) “Building Official” means the Commissioner of the Division of Building and Housing of the City of Cleveland.
(d) “City” means the City of Cleveland.
(e) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Building and Housing of the City of Cleveland.
(f) “Jurisdiction” means the “City.”
(g) “Natural grade” means the surface of the ground prior to excavation, fill or grading. (For “grade level” see Section 325.32 of the Zoning Code.)
(h) “Occupancy change” means a change from one (1) occupancy classification to another occupancy classification. (For use group classifications, see OAC Chapter 4101:2-3.)
(i) “Occupancy separation” means fire separation in a building or other structure between parts of different occupancy classifications.
(j) “Owner” means the owner or owners of the premises, a vendee in possession, a mortgagee or receiver in possession, a lessee or joint lessees of the whole thereof, or an agent or any other person, firm, or corporation directly in control of the premises or having a legal or equitable interest in the property.
(k) “Premises” means land, including buildings or structures thereon, or any part thereof, except land occupied by streets, alleys or public thoroughfares.
(l) “Repair” means the reconstruction, replacement or renewal of any part of an existing building, structure or device with like material or parts, for the purpose of maintenance of such building, structure or device.
(m) “Required” means required by OBC or this Building Code.
(n) “Shall” means mandatory.
(o) “Toilet room” means a room containing one (1) or more water closets, and may also contain one (1) or more lavatories, urinals and other plumbing fixtures.
(Ord. No. 2370-01. Passed 5-13-02, eff. 5-20-02)
(a) The referenced standards in OBC shall be supplemented by the standards listed in the Cleveland Fire Prevention Code which relate to building fire prevention as fire prevention is defined in OAC 4101:2-2.
(b) Compliance with the referenced standards specified in subsection (a) hereof constitutes prima facie compliance with the intent and requirements of this Cleveland Building Code, except where a specific provision of the Ohio Revised Code or the Ohio Administrative Code including OBC, or the Cleveland Building and Fire Prevention Codes, provides otherwise.
(c) Those provisions of referenced standards which establish safety requirements shall be considered mandatory and those provisions of referenced standards exceeding safety requirements shall be considered as acceptable but not required by this Building Code.
(Ord. No. 2370-01. Passed 5-13-02, eff. 5-20-02)
(a) Except as provided in Section 3101.02, buildings and other structures and parts thereof erected in the City of Cleveland after June 27, 1949 shall comply with OBBC and this Building Code.
(b) The uniform minimum standards and requirements of OBBC shall be the basis of the Cleveland Building Code, except that further and additional requirements and regulations to OBBC may be imposed by the Cleveland Building Code and shall be as are set forth in such Building Code.
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