(a) Within the scope of this Building Code, the purpose of this Building and Housing Code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, limb, health, property and the public welfare, and to establish minimum standards necessary to make all dwelling structures safe, sanitary, free from fire and health hazards, fit for human habitation and beneficial to the public welfare; to establish minimum standards governing the maintenance of dwelling structures in such condition as will not constitute a blighting or deteriorating influence on the neighborhood and the community; to fix responsibilities for owners and occupants of dwelling structures with respect to sanitation, repair and maintenance; to establish additional standards for multiple dwellings; to authorize the inspection of dwelling structures; to establish enforcement procedures; to authorize the vacation or condemnation of dwelling structures unsafe.
(b) The provisions of this Building and Housing Code, as the same may be from time to time amended or supplemented, shall apply to the location, design, materials, construction, alteration, repair, equipment, use, occupancy, maintenance, removal and demolition of all types of buildings and structures and appurtenant structures, to the extent now or hereafter provided for herein. The provisions of this Building and Housing Code shall not apply to work primarily in a public way, nor to public utility towers and poles, mechanical equipment and structures not specifically regulated in this Building and Housing Code.
(1986 Code § 1301.03) (Ord. 2008-148. Passed 8-13-08.)