1301.04 COMPLIANCE REQUIRED; VARIATIONS.

   (a)    No building or structure shall hereafter be constructed, erected, altered, repaired, removed or moved, nor shall the equipment of a building, structure or premises be constructed, installed, altered, repaired or removed, except in conformity with the provisions of this Building Code. Alterations to an existing building of a type of construction as classified in this Building Code shall substantially comply with the requirements of this Building Code for a new building of the same type of construction, except as may be otherwise required in Section 1301.05 and except where otherwise expressly stated in this Building Code. When more than fifty percent (50%) of the area included between walls or cross partitions of the roof or floor framing or of a ceiling, interior wall or partition is repaired, the construction of the roof or floor framing, ceiling, interior wall or partition within such area shall be brought into substantial compliance with the requirements of this Building Code for new buildings of the same type of construction as the building in question.

   (b)    Nothing in this Building Code shall prohibit the raising or lowering of a building to meet a change of grade in the street on which it is located, provided the building is not otherwise altered or its use or occupancy changed.

   (c)    Authorization of a variation in any provision of this Building Code by Council shall not be valid unless such variation is effected by an ordinance, enacted and approved as required by the City Charter, amending or supplementing this Building Code.

(Ord. 132-1968. Passed 9-23-68.)