(A) The Building Inspector may require a certificate of compliance to the code signed and stamped by a registered engineer or architect. Prefabricated assemblies shall sustain, without failure or undue deflection, test loads equal to the combined dead load and the minimum live load strengths prescribed by this article for construction generally. Due compensation shall be supplied for loss of material in connection with the installation of pipes, conduits or other equipment. Panels that are required to be tested shall be tested after all chases and cavities for equipment have been cut. No additional material shall be removed from any prefabricated assembly during construction of the building or structure.
(B) Bolts or other devices designed to connect prefabricated assemblies shall be capable of developing the strength of members connected and to resist wind loads as specified in the provisions of this article pertaining to construction generally. Connections consisting of bolts or other devices between roofs and the supporting walls shall be capable of withstanding uplift equal to not less than five pounds per square foot of horizontally projected roof area in addition to withstanding the other stresses specified therein. Individual units or sections of prefabricated assemblies, either wall, roof, floor or ceiling, shall be so connected that joints shall be weather- and wind-proof; and such joints shall be properly caulked in the approved manner and covered, on the weather side, with approved battens or other approved weather covering. This section shall not apply to housing units bearing the seal of the state’s Department of Health certifying the compliance of the construction and the systems of such units with Department standards.
(2005 Code, § 9-306)