There is hereby adopted by the city for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, removal, conversion, demolition, occupancy, equipment, use, height, area, and maintenance of buildings or structures, including permits and penalties, that certain building code known as the International Building Code, recommended by the International Code Council, being particularly the 2006 edition thereof, and the whole thereof, and its appendixes, supplements and changes thereto as they occur, is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein. The provisions of the International Building Code, 2006 edition, and any amendments thereto, shall be controlling in the construction of all buildings and other structures therein contained within the city limits.
(1987 Code, sec. 6-21; Ordinance adopted 12/14/99; Ordinance adopting Code)
Within said code, when reference is made to the duties of a certain official named therein, that designated official of the city who has duties corresponding to those of the named official in said code shall be deemed to be the responsible official insofar as enforcing the provisions of said code is concerned.
(Ordinance adopted 12/14/99)
Appeals as referred to in the International Building Code shall be considered by the city council.
(1987 Code, sec. 6-22; Ordinance adopting Code)
The minimum building setback lines upon any lot in the city, where the building setback lines have not been established by an approved plat or by the terms of any other ordinance, shall be determined by the building official prior to issuance of a building permit.
(1987 Code, sec. 6-24)