(a) That certain document, one copy of which is on file in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, being marked and designated as the Uniform Housing Code, 1997 edition, published by the International Conference of Building Officials, is hereby adopted by and for the City for the purpose of providing minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and the public welfare by regulating and controlling the use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all residential buildings and structures within the corporate limits of the City, and in the unincorporated area two miles beyond and adjacent to its corporate boundaries. Each and all of the regulations, provisions, conditions and terms of such Uniform Housing Code are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part of this chapter as if fully set out in this chapter, save and except such portions thereof as may be hereinafter amended or deleted.
(b) Subsequently published amendments or supplements to the Uniform Housing Code, as adopted in subsection (a) hereof, or revisions of the same, are hereby adopted and the provisions thereof shall be controlling in the City without further action of Council, provided, however, that the copy of such Code on file in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer shall be kept current by the integration of all of such amendments, supplements, or revisions.
(Ord. 1380. Passed 3-10-98.)