To promote and protect public health, safety and welfare of
the residents of the Borough of Baldwin and for the purpose of codifying
and regulating the design, construction, alteration, demolition, extension,
repair and removal of all buildings, homes, structures and/or edifices
in the Borough of Baldwin, and to prescribe reasonable standards for
the use of materials, roofing and construction components in such
structures in the Borough, the Borough Council of the Borough of Baldwin
hereby adopts that certain building code known as the "Boca National
Building Code (1996 Edition) of the Building Officials and Code Administration
International, Inc.," hereinafter referred to as the "code," as hereinafter
modified. Copies of the code have been and are now on file in the
office of the Borough Secretary of the Borough of Baldwin. The provisions,
standards, specifications and interpretations of the aforesaid code
are hereby adopted by reference to the same, and they are incorporated
herein as fully as if they had been set out at length herein.
Any references in the aforesaid code to terms such as "municipality,"
"city" or any other reference to a governmental authority shall be
held to mean the Borough of Baldwin; any terms used in the code referring
to building inspector, inspector, code officer or other person authorized
to enforce the code shall be held to mean the Code Enforcement Officer,
the Zoning Officer of the Borough of Baldwin or any inspectors hired
by the Borough to accomplish the purposes set out in this chapter.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Baldwin is hereby authorized
to appoint and hire inspectors to carry out the provisions of this
chapter, but the Code Enforcement Officer and/or the Zoning Officer
of the Borough of Baldwin shall be the primary official responsible
for the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
Before any work of construction, alteration, extension, repair,
demolition or removal of any building, house, edifice or structure
is begun, approval of the plans and specifications pertaining to such
building, house, edifice or structure shall be required to be obtained
from the Zoning Officer of the Borough; the plans and specifications
sought to be approved shall be submitted by the owner, or the agent
or employee of such owner, and shall be in such form and manner as
is more specifically required in the code. The submission of such
plans and specifications shall be accompanied by a check or money
order in an amount as required under the resolutions of the Borough
of Baldwin adopted from time to time and shall include, if required,
engineering and architectural certification.
All terms used in this chapter shall be defined as the same
are more fully defined in the code, except that in the event that
there is a conflict between the definitions contained in the code
and terms that are defined in the Zoning Ordinance of the Borough
of Baldwin, as amended, then the definition as set forth in the Zoning Ordinance
of the Borough of Baldwin shall prevail. For these purposes, the definitions
section of the Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Baldwin is incorporated
herein by reference thereto, the same as though it had been fully
set forth herein at length.
The code adopted herein is hereby modified in the following
respects:
A. The provisions of Chapter
29 relating to plumbing systems shall, where applicable, be subordinated in favor of the ordinances of the County of Allegheny relating to plumbing systems; where a conflict appears in the ordinances of the County of Allegheny and Chapter
29 of the code, the County provisions shall prevail.
B. Any
reference to signs, their size, height, etc., where stated in the
code shall be subordinated to the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance
of the Borough of Baldwin insofar as relates to signs.
C. Chapter
13 of the code relating to energy conservation shall be subordinated
in favor of the ordinances of the County of Allegheny relating to
energy and energy conservation, and where a conflict appears in the
ordinances of the County of Allegheny and Chapter 13 of the code,
the County provisions shall prevail.
D. Section
104.1 is hereby amended by deleting the same in its entirety and substituting
therefor the following: "The Code Enforcement Officer of the Borough
of Baldwin is hereby designated and appointed as the Code Official."
E. Section
112.0 relating to fees is deleted in its entirety and substituted
therefor is the following: "The Borough shall from time to time by
resolution designate fees for new construction, alteration, removal,
demolition or other building operations, and no permits shall be issued
until the fees prescribed by such resolutions shall have been paid
to the Borough. The Borough Council shall, from time to time, designate
the amount of the fees; the current resolution in effect in the Borough
of Baldwin relating to fees shall continue in full force and effect
until amended, modified or changed by the Borough Council."
F. Section 116.4 is deleted and §
74-10 hereafter substituted in lieu thereof.
G. Section
121.0 et seq. of the code is deleted in its entirety and substituted
therefor shall be the following: "Any person shall have the right
to appeal by requesting the Code Enforcement Officer and/or the Zoning
Officer to seek an interpretation of the ordinance from the Building
Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc.; in the event
that such a decision is adverse to the applicant, or not forthcoming,
the applicant may then request that an arbitrator be appointed to
determine the issue and to render a decision. The arbitrator shall
be an architect selected by the Borough and the applicant. All costs
of the arbitrator shall be paid for by the applicant."
H. Chapter
4, Section 421.0 et seq., relating to swimming pools, shall be construed in conjunction with the provisions set out in the code and in relation to other ordinances of the Borough of Baldwin relating to swimming pools, and the most stringent of the codes shall apply; provided, however, that in the event that any question arises as to which code is the more stringent, then the provisions of the Borough of Baldwin ordinances relating to swimming pools shall prevail.
I. Section
1810.3.1 of the code is deleted in its entirety and substituted therefor
is the following: "Plain concrete as it relates to concrete footings
shall be followed except that the following minimums shall be observed:
a) Footer sizes are to be a minimum of eight inches in depth and a
minimum of 20 inches in width; b) Footers must be as the same are
referred to in Section 1806.1 hereof and shall have the further limitation
that the footers must be below frost line, which is a minimum of 36
inches; c) Further, Section 1806.1 shall be limited to the extent
that concrete shall not be poured under 20° F."
J. Section
1904.3.1 and Section 1810.3.1 are hereby amended by adding the additional
requirement that footers must be inspected before any concrete shall
be poured.
K. Section
1816.1 shall be amended by adding to the six requirements set out
therein the following:
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When pilings must be used, the pilings must have a minimum sixteen-inch
diameter.
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Pilings must have a minimum of four one-half-inch rods protruding
into the footer at least three feet.
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Pilings must be set on solid ground.
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Pilings must not be more than 10 feet apart.
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Grade beams must be a minimum of 18 inches deep and 20 inches
wide and must have eight-and-one-half-inch rods, four of them three
inches from the top, and four of them three inches from the bottom
of the footer."
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L. Chapter
19, Section 1905, shall be amended by adding thereto: "Four inches
or greater of concrete floor shall be used in garage areas."
M. Chapter
18, Section 1809, shall be amended by adding to the same the following:
"Beams and girders must be laid on solid masonry or tempered brick
or filled cores if hollow unit masonry is used."
N. Chapter
18, Section 1813.0, shall be amended by adding thereto the following:
"French drains containing four-inch perforated pipe and gravel around
the perimeter (outside house) of the building where required shall
be used in addition to crushed stone."
O. Chapter
23, Section 2305, shall be amended by adding the following: "Bridging
will be used in all construction, two inch by eight inch or greater."
Chapter 15, Section 1502.1, shall be amended by adding to the definition
of roof structure the following: "and shall contain not less than
one-half-inch-by-four-feet-by-eight-feet plywood or greater with clips."
P. Chapter
23, Section 2305.1, shall be amended by adding thereto the following:
"All framing shall be two inches by four inches by 16 inches on center.
The first floor in two-story dwellings shall have a double top plate,
inside corners solid, and shall contain no drywall clips."
Q. Chapter
23, Section 2305.1, shall be amended by adding thereto the following:
"Such design and construction shall require double two-inch-by-four-inch
studs in bearing wall, if plates are cut both sides for heat duct
chase, or return-air bay."
R. Chapter
12, Section 1210.1, shall be amended by adding to the same the following: "Notwithstanding the foregoing, 50% of the required ventilating area must be through ridge vents or gable venting; 25% of the required ventilating area must be through eave or cornice vents on front, and 25% must be on the rear of the building."
S. Chapter
1, Section 113, is hereby amended by adding to Section 113.5 the following: "All requests for inspection shall require at least a forty-eight-hour notice."