The Stille-DeRossett-Hale Single State Construction Code Act (Public Act 1999 No. 425; MCLA 125.1501 et seq.) as amended, and the Home Rule Cities Incorporation Act [MCLA 117.3(k); MSA 5.2073(k)], as amended, provide that each city shall have power, whether so provided in its charter or not, to adopt, by reference in an ordinance, any codes, including property maintenance codes, that have been promulgated by a national organization or association which is organized and conducted for the purpose of developing any such code, provided that such code is clearly identified in the adopting ordinance, that its purpose is published with said ordinance and that printed copies thereof are kept in the office of the City Clerk and/or Building Official, available for inspection by, and distribution to, the public at all times, and provided further that a complete copy of such code is available for public use and inspection at the office of the City Clerk and/or Building Official, and that said publication shall also contain a notice to this effect.

A certain document, three copies of which are on file in the office of the Building Official or City Clerk, being marked and designated as the 2009 Edition of the International Property Maintenance Code, published by the International Code Council, is hereby adopted as the Property Maintenance Code of the City of Rockwood for regulating and governing the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures; by providing the standards for supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; and the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use, and the demolition of such existing structures as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore; and each and all the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Property Maintenance Code on file in the Office of the Clerk of the City of Rockwood are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part hereof, as if fully set forth in this chapter, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in § 176-3 of this chapter.

The International Property Maintenance Code, as adopted in § 176-2, is hereby amended as follows: