The purpose of the Ohio Building Code as adopted herein is:
(a) To provide uniform minimum requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings and other structures related to safety, sanitation, and energy efficiency intended for use and occupancy;
(b) Establish such requirements, in terms of performance objectives for the use intended;
(c) To 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) To encourage, so far as may be practicable, the standardization of construction practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including methods employed to produce industrialized units.
(Ord. 10-2013. Passed 4-15-13.)