(a) No owners, officers, member of a board or committee, or other person shall construct, erect, build or equip an opera house, hall theater, church, schoolhouse, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children’s home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, memorial building, armory, assembly hall, or other building used for the assemblage or betterment of people in any municipal corporation, county, or township in the sate, or make any addition thereto or alteration thereof, except in case of repairs for maintenance without affecting the construction, sanitation, safety or any other vital feature of such building or structure, without complying with R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto. No architect, builder, engineer, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman, or employee shall violate or assist in violating such chapters.
(R.C. § 3791.01)
(b) No owner, or person having the control as an officer or member of a board or committee or otherwise of any opera house, hall, theater, church, schoolhouse, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children’s home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, memorial building, armory, assembly hall, or other building for the assemblage or betterment of people shall fail to obey any order of the fire marshal, boards of health of city and general health districts, the building inspector or commissioner in cities having a building inspection department, or the superintendent of the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce under R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
(R.C. § 3791.02)
(c) No architect, engineer, builder, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or employee shall violate or assist in violating any of the provisions of R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto or of any order issued thereunder.
(R.C. § 3791.03)
(d) No owner or any other person shall proceed with the construction, erection, alteration or equipment of any building or structure to which the OBBC is applicable without complying with this chapter and the plan and specification submission and processing requirements of the municipality and/or the OBBC and until plans or drawings, specifications and data have been approved or the industrialized unit has been inspected at the point of origin.
(`80 Code, § 1422.04)