This code provides certain minimum standards, provisions, and requirements for safe and stable design, methods of construction, and uses of materials in buildings or structures hereafter erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, converted to other uses, or demolished, and regulates the equipment, maintenance, use, and occupancy of all such buildings and/or structures. Its purpose is to protect and foster the health, safety, and well being of persons occupying or using such buildings and the general public.
(Prior Code, § 14.02)