1. In compliance with Chapter 364.17 of the Code of Iowa, it is the purpose of this chapter to require property owners, their agents, and others who rent residential dwelling/sleeping units to meet their responsibilities with respect to premise safety and to provide for inspection as a means of compelling compliance therewith. It is not the purpose of this chapter to create any duty on the part of the City, its officers, agents, or employees, owing to any individual member of the public or to protect any particular or circumscribed class of persons. Specifically, it is not the intent of this chapter to create any duty or liability by the City, its officers, agents, or employees, to premises’ occupants, owners, tenants, or any other person.
2. No person shall place reliance upon this chapter, any inspections performed, or certificates issued pursuant to this chapter, as indicating the safety of or quality of construction of any particular premises. Neither this chapter nor inspections made pursuant thereto nor certificates issued are intended to assume the duty of any person to adequately construct and maintain a premises or provide a safe premises or to, in any way, indicate a decrease in the risk associated with the use of occupancy of any premises. A certification that the premises have been inspected pursuant to this chapter shall not in any way constitute a warranty or guarantee of the safety or quality of the premises.