There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing minimum standards to safeguard life, limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controlling the use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all residential buildings and structures within the jurisdiction of the city, that certain housing code known as the international residential code, being particularly the current edition thereof that the state of Montana has adopted, and the whole thereof, which is current from time to time as the latest edition containing revisions, of which code and standards shall be on file in the office of the city building inspector, and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling in the use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all residential buildings and structures within the jurisdiction of the city. (Ord. 2010-05, 3-2-2010)