A twelve-inch strip of noncorrosive metal lath weighing not less than three quarters of a pound per square yard shall be placed under wall coverings on both the inside and outside of all exterior stud walls and the floor level except that the strip need not be placed on the outside face where there is maintained a clearance of eighteen inches under the floor joists or when the exterior wall covering is stucco.
(Prior code § 6.16.100 (Ord. 270 § 7 (part), 1945))