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1301.01 BUILDING CODE -4 1301.01 ADOPTION. There is hereby adopted by the Municipality, the Ohio Building Code (UBC) as adopted by the Ohio Board of Buildirig Standards, Department of Industrial Relations, effective January 1, 2002, and as published in Division 4101:1 et seq. of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC). 1301.02 PURPOSE. The purpose of the Ohio Building Code is to establish uniform minimum requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings, including construction of industrialized units. Such requirements shall reiate to the conseroation of energy, safety, and sanitation of buildings for their intended use and occupancy with consideration for the following: (a) Performance. Establish such requirements, in terms of performance objectives for the use intended. (b) Exrtent of Use. Permit to the fullest extent feasible, the use of materials and technical methods, devices, and improvements which tend to reduce the cost of construction without affecting minimum requirements for the health, safety, and security of the occupants of buildings without preferential treatment of types or classes of materials or products or methods of construction. (c) Standardization. To encourage, so far as may be practicable, the standardization of construction pracrices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including methods employed to produce industrialized units. The rules of the Board of Building Standards and proceedings shall be Iiberally construed in order to promote its purpose. When the Building Official finds that the proposed design is a reasonable interpretation of the provisions of this Code, it shall be approved. Materials, equipment and devices approved by the Building Official pursuant to Section 118 of the Ohio Building Code shall be constructed and installed in accordance with such approval. (OBC 101.3) 1301.03 SCOPE. The provisions of the Ohio Building Code shall apply to the construction, alteration, movement, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, removal and demolition of every building or structure or any appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures. No building or its equipment or accessories, to which the rules of the Board of Building Standards apply shall be erected, constructed, or installed, except in conformity with the rules of the Board. Exceptions: (a) Detached one-, and twa, and three-family dwellings and structures incidental to those dwellings which are not constructed as industrialized units shall comply with local residential codes, of any, adopted by the authority having jurisdiction. This exception does not include the energy provisions required in "Chapter 13, Energy Efficiency" af the OBC (see Sections 3781.06, 3781.181 and 3781.182 of the Ohio Revised Code); (b) Buildings owned by and iased for a function of the United States Government;