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The purpose of the OBC, as adopted in § 1402.01, is to:
(a) Provide uniform minimum standards and requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration and maintenance of buildings, including construction of industrialized units, such standards relating to the conservation of energy, safety and sanitation of buildings for their intended use and occupancy;
(b) Formulate such standards and requirements, so far as is practical, in terms of performance objectives, so as to make adequate performance for the use intended the test of acceptability;
(c) Permit, to the fullest extent feasible, the use of materials and technical methods, devices and improvements, including the use of industrialized units, which tend to reduce the cost of construction and erection without affecting minimum requirements for the health, safety and security of the occupants or users of buildings or industrialized units and without preferential treatment of types or classes of materials or products or methods of construction; and
(d) Encourage, so far as may be practical, the standardization of construction practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including methods employed to produce industrialized units.
(a) No owner or any other person shall construct, erect, build or equip any building or structure to which the OBC is applicable, or make any addition thereto or alteration thereof, except in the case of repairs or maintenance that does not affect the construction, sanitation, safety or any other vital feature of such building or structure, without complying with this chapter, R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or the OBC, or fail to comply with any lawful order issued pursuant thereto.
(R.C. §§ 3791.01, 3791.02)
(b) No architect, builder, engineer, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or employee shall violate or assist in violating any of the provisions of this chapter, R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 or the OBC, or fail to comply with any lawful order issued pursuant thereto.
(R.C. §§ 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 OBC is applicable without complying with this chapter and the plan and specification submission and processing requirements of the municipality and/or the OBC and until plans or drawings, specifications and data have been approved or the industrialized unit has been inspected at the point of origin.
(R.C. § 3791.04)
(a) When the municipality finds that work or equipment is contrary to this chapter, approved plans therefor or the OBC, notice in writing shall be sent to the owner of the building involved or his or her agent. The notice shall state where and in what respect the work or equipment does not conform to such lawful requirements and shall specify a reasonable period of time in which to conform.
(b) Prior to enforcement of R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791, or any rules adopted pursuant thereto, including the OBC, as adopted in § 1402.01, by any remedy, civil or criminal, the municipality shall issue an adjudication order within the meaning of R.C. §§ 119.06 to 119.13 or a stop work order as provided in the O.A.C.
(c) Every adjudication order shall cite the law or rules directly involved and shall specify what appliances, site preparations, additions or alterations to structures, plans, materials, assemblages or procedures are necessary for the same to comply with R.C. Chapters 3781 and 3791 and/or any rules adopted pursuant thereto, including the provisions of the OBC adopted in § 1402.01.
(d) The order shall include notice to the party of the procedure for appeal and right to a hearing if requested within 30 days of the mailing of the notice. The notice shall also inform the party that at the hearing he or she may be represented by counsel, present his or her arguments or contentions orally or in writing, and present evidence and examine witnesses appearing for or against him or her.
(e) Upon the issuance of any order provided for herein or in the O.A.C., the person receiving such order shall cease work upon the site preparations or structure to be constructed, or, in the case of an industrialized unit, the installation of the unit, or shall cease using the appliance, materials, assemblages or manufactured product identified in the order until such time as the appeal provided for in accordance with the provisions of R.C. § 3781.19, and all appeals from such hearing, have been completed, or the order herein has been released.
(f) Failure to cease work after receipt of a stop work order as provided in § 4101:2-1-36 of the OBC is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
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