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OHIO BASIC BUILDING CODE
(A) Pursuant to R.C. § 731.231, there is hereby adopted by and for the village the Ohio Basic Building Code, (residential: 2019 RCC, 2017 NFTA 70, 2018 IECC, 2018 IFGC, 2017 OPC; commercial: 2017 OBC-OMC-OPC, 2017 NSP 70, 2012 IECC; 2016 NFP 72, 2015 IFGC), as adopted by the Ohio Board of Building Standards, Department of Industrial Relations, and as published in Division 4101:2 of the Ohio Administrative Code (O.A.C.), save and except such portions as may be hereinafter amended or deleted.
(B) The BOCA National Building Code, promulgated by Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc., being particularly the thirteenth edition (1996) thereof, and the International Mechanical Code, promulgated by the International Code Council, Inc. (ICC), being particularly the 1998 edition thereof, as amended by Chapters 4101:2-1 through 4101:2-15 of the Ohio Administrative Code, are hereby incorporated in this subchapter as fully as if set forth at length herein.
(Prior Code, § 1404.01)
The purposes of the Ohio Basic Building Code, as adopted in § 150.001, are to:
(A) Provide uniform standards and requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration and maintenance of buildings, including construction of industrialized units. Such standards shall relate 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 that 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.
(O.A.C. 4101:2-1-05) (Prior Code, § 1404.02)
The Ohio Basic Building Code, as adopted herein, applies to all buildings, except as follows:
(A) Single-family, two-family and three-family dwelling houses which are not constructed of industrialized units, except where the context specifies mandatory applicability;
(B) Buildings owned by and used for a function of the United States government;
(C) Existing buildings where their location, parts, equipment and other items do not constitute a serious hazard;
(D) Buildings constructed in accordance with plans which have been approved prior to the effective date of OBBC;
(E) Buildings or structures which are incident to the use for agricultural purposes of the land on which such buildings or structures are located, provided such buildings or structures are not used in the business of retail trade (see R.C. §§ 3781.06 and 3781.061);
(F) Agricultural labor camps as defined in R.C. § 3733.41;
(G) Single-family, two-family and three-family detached dwelling houses for which applications have been submitted to the Ohio Director of Human Services pursuant to R.C. § 5104.03 for the purposes of operating type A family day-care homes, as defined in R.C. § 5104.01; and
(H) Buildings or structures which are designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with federal standards and regulations and are used primarily for federal and state military purposes where the U.S. Secretary of Defense, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. §§ 18233(a)(1), (a)(5) and (a)(6) and 18237, has:
(1) Acquired, by purchase, lease or transfer, and constructs, expands, rehabilitates or corrects and equips such buildings or structures as he or she determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes of 10 U.S.C. § 1803;
(2) Contributed to the state amounts for the acquisition, construction, expansion, rehabilitation and conversion by the state of such additional buildings or structures as he or she determines to be required because of the failure of existing facilities to meet the purposes of 10 U.S.C. § 1803; or
(3) Contributed to the state such amounts for the construction, alteration or rehabilitation of arms storage rooms as he or she determines to be required to meet a change in U.S. Department of Defense standards related to the safekeeping of arms.
(O.A.C. 4101:2-1-09) (Prior Code, § 1404.03)
At least one copy of the Code adopted in § 1404.01 is on file with the Village Fiscal Officer for inspection by the public. At least one copy of such Codes is also on file in the County Law Library. In addition, the Village Fiscal Officer shall keep copies of such Codes available for distribution to the public, at cost.
(Prior Code, § 1404.05)
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