There is hereby adopted by the city, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property those certain rules and regulations known as “Proposed Housing Ordinance”, recommended by the American Public Health Association, Inc., being particularly the edition of 1952, and all later editions and modifications of such rules and regulations as recommended by the American Public Health Association, Inc., of which rules and regulations not less than two copies shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk, and said rules and regulations are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein with the exception of Section 3, P 5.4 which are hereby deleted from said ordinance, and from the date on which this subchapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the city.
(1975 Code, § 20.01)