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(c) Permit to the fullest extent feasible, the use of materials and technical <br />methods, devices and improvements, including the use of industrialized units <br />which tend to reduce the cost of construction and erection without affecting <br />minimum requirements for health, safety and security of the occupants or users <br />of buildings or industrialized units and without preferential treatment of types or <br />classes of materials or products or methods of construction. <br />(d) Encourage, so far as may be practicable, the standardization of <br />construction practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including <br />methods employed to produce hrdustrialized units. <br />1302.03 APPLICATION. <br />The Ohio Basic Building Code, as adopted in Section 1302.01, applies to all <br />buildings except as follows: <br />(a) Single-family, pvo-family and three-family dwelling houses which are <br />not constructed of industrialized units, except for the energy conservation <br />provisions required in "Chapter 13, Energy Conservation" of the OBBC (see <br />Ohio R.C. 3781.06, 3781.181 and 3781.182); <br />(b) Buildings owned by and used for a fwrction of the United States <br />government; <br />(c) Existing buildings where their location, parts, equipment and other <br />items do not constihrte a serious hazard, unless othertivise regulated by the <br />provisions of "Chapter 34, Existing Structures" of the OBBC; <br />(d) Buildings constructed in accordance with plans which have been <br />approved prior to the effective date of the OBBC <br />(e) Buildings or structures which are incident to the use for agricultural <br />purposes of the land on which said buildings or structures are located, provided <br />such buildings or structures are not used in the business of retail trade. For the <br />purposes of this section, a building or structure is not considered used in the <br />business of retail trade if fifty percent or more of the gross income received from <br />sales of products in the building or structure by the owner or operator is from <br />sales of products produced or raised in a normal crop year on farms owned or <br />operated by the seller (see Ohio R.C. 3781.06 and 3781.061) <br />(f) Agricultural labor camps as defined in Ohio R.C. 3733.41; <br />(g) Single-family, hvo-family and three-family detached dwelling houses <br />for which applications have been submitted to the Ohio Director of Hmnan <br />Services pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5104.03 for the purposes of operating type A <br />family day-care homes as defined in Ohio R.C. 5104.01; <br />(h) Buildings or structures which are designed, constructed and maintained <br />in accordance with Federal standards and regulations and are used primarily for <br />Federal and State military purposes where the U.S. Secretary of Defense, <br />pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2233(a)(1), (5) and (6) and 2237, has: <br />(1) Acquired, by purchase, lease or transfer, and constructs, expands, <br />rehabilitates or corrects and equips, such buildings or structures as he or she <br />determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes of Chapter 133 of the <br />U.S.C.; <br />