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1329.01 ADOPTION.
Pursuant to Ohio R.C. 731.231, Tthere is hereby adopted by and for the Village of Mayfield, the 2024 Ohio Building Code (OBC) and related Codes as adopted by the Ohio Board of Building Standards, effective March 1, 2024, being Chapter 4101:1-1 to 35 of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(Ord. 2024-10. Passed 3-18-24.)
1329.02 PURPOSE.
The purpose of the Ohio Building Code is to establish uniform minimum requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings, including construction of industrialized units. Such requirements shall relate to the conservation of energy, safety, and sanitation of buildings for their intended use and occupancy with consideration for the following:
(a) Performance. Establish such requirements, in terms of performance objectives for the use intended.
(b) Extent of Use. Permit to the fullest extent feasible, the use of materials and technical methods, devices, and improvements which tend to reduce the cost of construction without affecting minimum requirements for the health, safety, and security of the occupants of buildings without preferential treatment of types or classes of materials or products or methods of construction.
(c) Standardization. To encourage, so far as may be practicable, the standardization of construction practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including methods employed to produce industrialized units.
The rules of the Board of Building Standards and proceedings shall be liberally construed in order to promote its purpose. When the Building Official finds that the proposed design is a reasonable interpretation of the provisions of this Code, it shall be approved. Materials, equipment and devices approved by the Building Official pursuant to Section 118 of the Ohio Building Code shall be constructed and installed in accordance with such approval.
(OBC 101.3)
1329.03 SCOPE.
The provisions of the Ohio Building Code shall apply to the construction, alteration, movement, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, removal and demolition of every building or structure or any appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures. No building or its equipment or accessories, to which the rules of the Board of Building Standards apply shall be erected, constructed, or installed, except in conformity with the rules of the Board. Exceptions:
(a) Detached one-, and two-, and three-family dwellings and structures incidental to those dwellings which are not constructed as industrialized units shall comply with local residential codes, of any, adopted by the authority having jurisdiction. This exception does not include the energy provisions required in “Chapter 13, Energy Efficiency” of the OBC (see Sections 3781.06, 3781.181 and 3781.182 of the Ohio Revised Code);
(b) Buildings owned by and used for a function of the United States Government;
(c) Buildings or structures which are incident to the use for agricultural purposes of the land on which said buildings or structures are located, provided such buildings or structures are not used in the business of retail trade; for the purposes of this section, a building or structure is not considered used in the business of retail trade if fifty percent or more of the gross income received from sales of products in the building or structure by the owner or operator is from sales of products produced or raised in a normal crop year on farms owned or operated by the seller. (See Sections 3781.06 and 3781.061 of the Ohio Revised Code);
(d) Agricultural labor camps;
(e) Type A or Type B family day-care homes;
(f) Buildings or structures which are designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with federal standards and regulations and are used primarily for federal and state military purposes where the U.S. Secretary of Defense, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. Sections 18233(a)(1) and 18237, has acquired by purchase, lease, or transfer, and constructs, expands, rehabilitates, or corrects and equips, such buildings or structures as he determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes of Chapter 1803 of the U.S.C.;
(g) Manufactured homes constructed under “24 CFR Part 3280", “Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards”.
(OBC 101.2)
1329.04 COMPLIANCE.
(a) No owner or any other person shall construct, erect, build or equip any building or structure to which the Ohio Building Code is applicable, or make any addition thereto or alteration thereof, except in case of repairs for maintenance without affecting the construction, sanitation, safety or other vital feature of such building or structure, without complying with this chapter, Ohio R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or the Ohio Building Code, or fail to comply with any lawful order issued pursuant thereto.
(ORC 3791.01, 3791.02)
(b) No architect, builder, engineer, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or employee shall violate or assist in violating this chapter, Ohio R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or the Ohio Building Code, or fail to comply with any lawful order issued pursuant thereto.
(ORC 3791.01, 3791.03)
(c) No owner or any other person shall proceed with the construction, erection, alteration or equipment of any building or structure to which the Ohio Building Code is applicable without complying with this chapter and the plan and specification submission and processing requirements of the Municipality, and until plans or drawings, specifications and data have been approved, or the industrialized unit has been inspected at the point of origin.
(ORC 3791.04)
1329.05 EXISTING STRUCTURES.
The provisions of Chapter 34 of the Ohio Building Code shall control the alteration, repair, addition, and change of occupancy of any existing structure.
The occupancy of any structure currently existing on the date of adoption of this Code shall be permitted to continue without change provided the alleged occupancy can be shown to have existed for more than two years and there are no orders of the Building Official pending, no evidence of fraud, or no serious safety or sanitation hazard.
Buildings constructed in accordance with plans which have been approved prior to the effective date of this Code are existing buildings.
(OBC 102.6)
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