(a) No building or structure shall hereafter be erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, removed or moved, nor shall the equipment of a building, structure or premises be constructed, installed, altered, repaired or removed, except in conformity with the provisions of this Building and Housing Code. Alterations to an existing building of a type of construction classified in this Building and Housing Code shall substantially comply with the requirements of this Building and Housing Code for a new building of the same type of construction, except as may be otherwise required in this Building and Housing Code. When more than fifty percent of the area included between walls or cross-partitions, the roof or floor framing, or a ceiling, interior wall or partition, is repaired, the construction of the roof or floor framing, ceiling, interior wall or partition within such area shall be brought into substantial compliance with the requirements of this Building and Housing Code for new buildings of the same type of construction as the building in question.
(b) Nothing in this Building and Housing Code shall prohibit the raising or lowering of a building to meet a change of grade in the street on which it is located, provided that the building is not otherwise altered.
(c) Authorization of a variation in any provision of this Building and Housing Code by Council shall not be valid unless such variation is effected by an ordinance, enacted and approved as required by the City Charter, amending or supplementing this Building and Housing Code.
(d) No person shall maintain, occupy or use a building or structure that has been erected or altered in violation of any provision of this Building and Housing Code, the Ohio Building Code or other codes or ordinances adopted by Council, which are applicable and in effect at the time said building was erected or altered.
(Ord. 42-1981. Passed 2-23-81.)