The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum regulations,
provisions and requirements in the City to ensure safety to persons
and property, safe and stable design, good workmanship in the methods
of construction and uses of materials in any buildings constructed,
enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, converted to other uses or demolished;
to regulate the equipment, maintenance, condition, use, occupancy
and safety and general welfare. This chapter shall apply in the City
to new structures and to alterations and additions to existing structures
and, where practical, to existing structures.
This chapter shall be known as the "Construction Standards Code"
of the City and shall encompass the Building Code and any other codes
and special regulations required to promulgate the purpose and intent
of this Code.
A.
The sections contained in this chapter shall be binding alike on
every owner of a building, every person in charge of or responsible
for or who caused the construction, repair or alteration of any building
or structure, professional engineer or other person who shall prepare
plans for the construction, alteration or addition to any building
structure in the City.
B.
All buildings and structures and all parts thereof shall be maintained
in a safe condition, and all devices or safeguards which are required
at the erection, alteration or addition or repair of any building
shall be maintained in good working order. This section shall not
be construed as permitting the removal or nonmaintenance of any existing
devices or safeguards unless authorized in writing by the Building
Inspector. Such maintenance requirements shall apply to all buildings
now existing or hereafter erected.
C.
The intent of this chapter is to be a performance code. New materials
and methods may be used when approved by the Building Inspector. Minor
variances from the code may also be approved by the Building Inspector,
when those variances comply with the intent of the Construction Standards
Code.
If not otherwise defined in this chapter, words used herein
shall have their ordinary and accepted meanings.
