The Common Council finds that the general health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city will be served by the adoption of a code establishing minimum standards and requirements dealing with the regulation, restriction, and supervision of housing maintained for human habitation within the city, and therefore adopts hereby that certain housing code entitled “The BOCA Basic Property Maintenance Code 1981”, as amended, and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as may hereafter may be deleted, modified, or amended, of which Code not less than one copy, certified by the Mayor, had been and now is filed in the office of the City Clerk, and such Code is hereby incorporated in and made a part of this section as fully as if set out at length herein, and the provisions thereof shall be controlling upon owners and occupants of dwellings located within the city with regard to minimum standards, facilities, conditions, and uses required of, or permitted in, all such dwellings and dwelling units kept or maintained for human habitation. “The BOCA Basic Property Maintenance Code 1981”, as hereafter modified, deleted, or amended, shall be known and cited as “the Minimum Housing Standards Code”.
Charter reference:
Authority to regulate the building of houses and other structures, see Charter § 30
Statutory reference:
Authority to adopt codes by reference, see W. Va. Code 8-11-4(b)
Authority to adopt ordinances regulating the unfit dwellings, see W. Va. Code 8-12-16
Authority to provide for elimination of health and safety hazards, see W. Va. Code 8-12-5(23)
(Prior Code, § 5-16) (Ord. passed 2-7-1983)