Chapter 15.39
CALIFORNIA EXISTING BUILDING CODE*

Sections:

15.39.010    Adoption.

15.39.020    Purpose.

15.39.030    Application.

15.39.040    Validity.

*Prior ordinance history: Ord. 630.

15.39.010 Adoption.

That certain document in book form entitled 2022 California Existing Building Code, California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 10, including Appendix A1, Referenced Standards, and Chapter A3 thereof, as approved and copyrighted by the California Building Standards Commission, 2525 Natomas Park Drive, Suite 130, Sacramento, California 95833 and published and copyrighted by the International Code Council, 500 New Jersey Avenue NW, 6th floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, one copy of which document is now on file in the office of the city clerk of the city of Patterson, except as portions thereof are herein specifically amended, deleted and added to, is hereby adopted by reference as the “California Existing Building Code of the City of Patterson,” and from the date on which the ordinance codified in this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the corporate limits of the city of Patterson. (Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017: Ord. 761 § 1, 2014).

15.39.020 Purpose.

The purposes of this chapter are to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property and the public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all buildings and structures within the city of Patterson, to encourage and instruct people to build safely and economically, rather than to discourage building; and to provide a minimum of restrictive enforcement and a maximum of good building information and encouragement. (Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017: Ord. 761 § 2, 2014).

15.39.030 Application.

Chapter A1, Section A100 of the California Existing Building Code is hereby amended and added to as follows:

SECTION A100 Application

A100.1 Administrative Requirements

Administrative provisions relating to existing building requirements, enforcement, permits, plans, violations, fees and penalties are specified in the California Building Code, Part 2, Volume 1, Chapter 1, Division II, as amended and adopted by the City of Patterson.

(Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017: Ord. 761 § 3, 2014).

15.39.040 Validity.

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter. The city council of the city of Patterson hereby declares that it would have passed the ordinance codified in this chapter and each section, subsection, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional. (Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017: Ord. 761 § 4, 2014).