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.
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.
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).
Temporary structures erected for storage or for offices
during construction operations, provided such structures shall be
removed at the completion of such operations.
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.
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.