This By-Law shall be known as the Building Code of the Town of Marblehead, Mass., and will be referred to in this By-Law as "this code."
A. 
The purpose of this code is to provide minimum standards and requirements for safe and stable designs, methods of construction, and uses of materials in buildings and structures hereafter erected, altered, moved, or converted to other uses within the limits of the Town of Marblehead.
B. 
The provisions of this code shall be supplementary to any and all state laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts relating to buildings.
A. 
New buildings and structures hereafter erected in the Town of Marblehead shall conform to all the requirements of this code.
B. 
Existing buildings need not conform to the requirements of this code except that all ordinary masonry construction buildings and all frame buildings hereafter built or altered in which the lower stories or portions thereof are used for business and the stories above for residence purposes shall have partitions and ceilings separating the business portions from the residence portions covered with metal lath and plaster or other equivalent fire-retardant material.
C. 
The following shall be excepted from the provisions of this code:
(1) 
Buildings belonging to the United States or to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
(2) 
Bridges and wharves.
(3) 
Buildings less than eight feet in height, and having an area of less than 200 square feet (unless a proposed alteration would increase them beyond these dimensions).
(4) 
Temporary structures erected for storage or for offices during construction operations, provided such structures shall be removed at the completion of such operations.
(5) 
Farm buildings not used for human occupancy, situated not less than 50 feet from any other building.
(6) 
Ordinary repairs and alterations of buildings, but not including changes in structural members or supports, means of egress or anything which would violate any provision of this code.
A. 
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this code shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $20 for each offense.
B. 
The imposition of a penalty for a violation of this code shall not excuse the violation, or permit it to continue; such violation shall be remedied within a reasonable time, and each 10 days that such a violation is permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense.
C. 
The application of the foregoing penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.