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Sheffield Lake Overview
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
TITLE ONE - Building Standards
CHAPTER 1301 Ohio Building Code
CHAPTER 1303 Residential Code of Ohio
1303.01 ADOPTION
1303.02 SCOPE
1303.03 INTENT.
1303.04 COMPLIANCE.
1303.05 EXISTING STRUCTURES.
1303.06 VIOLATIONS.
1303.07 STOP WORK.
1303.08 CONFLICTS.
1303.09 ENFORCEMENT.
1303.99 PENALTIES.
CHAPTER 1307 National Electrical Code (Repealed)
CHAPTER 1309 OBOA One, Two and Three Family Dwelling Code (Repealed)
TITLE THREE - Local Provisions
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
1303.03 INTENT.
CHAPTER 1303 Residential Code of Ohio
CHAPTER 1303
Residential Code of Ohio
1303.01   Adoption.
1303.02   Scope.
1303.03   Intent.
1303.04   Compliance.
1303.05   Existing structures.
1303.06   Violations.
1303.07   Stop work.
1303.08   Conflicts.
1303.09   Enforcement.
1303.99   Penalties.
CROSS REFERENCES
Ohio Building Code - see BLDG. Ch. 1301
1303.01 ADOPTION
   The City of Sheffield Lake hereby adopts the Residential Code of Ohio as promulgated in the Ohio Administrative Code 4101:8 et seq. by the Ohio Board of Building Standards pursuant to Ohio R.C. 3781 and 3791 and said rules shall apply and be enforced in the city.
(Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.02 SCOPE
   The provisions of the "Residential Code of Ohio for One-, Two-, and Three-Family Dwellings" shall apply to the construction, alteration, movement, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, removal and demolition of every one-, two-, or three-family dwelling, any appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures, or any accessory structures. No building or its equipment or accessories, to which the rules of the board apply shall be erected, constructed, or installed, except in conformity with the rules of the board.
   This code also applies to such other residential occupancies as referenced and to the extent indicated in section 310 of the "OBC".
   Exceptions:
   (a)    Manufactured homes
   (b)    Multiple single-family dwelling structures more than three stories in height
   (c)   The structural requirements of the OBC or section 116.2 of this code shall apply to residential structures comprised of detached one,-two and three-family dwellings which are more than three stories in height.
   (d)   Residential buildings with attached occupancies that are within the scope of the OBC shall comply with the requirements of the OBC.
      (Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.03 INTENT.
   The purpose of this code is to establish uniform requirements for the erection, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of residential buildings, including construction of industrialized units. Such requirements shall relate to the conservation 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. Further, the rules shall consider the following:
      (1)   The impact that the state residential building code may have upon the health, safety, and welfare of the public;
      (2)   The economic reasonableness of the residential building code;
      (3)   The technical feasibility of the residential building code;
      (4)   The financial impact that the residential building code may have on the public's ability to purchase affordable housing.
   (b)   Extent 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 practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques, including methods employed to produce industrialized units.
   This code does not prevent a local governing authority from adopting additional regulations governing residential structures if the regulations comply with this section.
   (a)   A local governing authority shall, and any person may, notify the board of building standards of any regulation the local governing authority adopts related to content within the scope of this code and request that the board of building standards determine whether that regulation conflicts with the state residential building code.
      (1)   Not later than sixty days after receiving a notice to review local regulations for conflict, the board shall determine, based upon a recommendation from the advisory committee, whether the regulation conflicts with the state residential building code and shall notify any person who submitted the notice and the local governing authority that adopted the regulation of the board's determination.
      (2)   If the board determines that a conflict does not exist, the board shall take no further action with regard to the regulation. If the board determines a conflict exists and the regulation is not necessary to protect the health or safety of the persons within the local governing authority's jurisdiction, the regulation is not valid and the local governing authority may not enforce the regulation.
      (3)   If the board determines that a conflict exists and that the regulation is necessary to protect the health or safety of the persons within the local governing authority's jurisdiction, the board shall adopt a rule to incorporate the regulation into the state residential building code. Until the rule becomes a part of the state residential building code, the board shall grant a temporary variance to the local governing authority and any similarly situated local governing authority to which the board determines the temporary variance should apply.
         (Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.04 COMPLIANCE.
   (a)    No architect, engineer, builder, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman, or employee shall violate or assist in the violation of Chapters 3781 and 3791 of the Revised Code or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto or of any order issued thereunder.
   (b)    No owner shall proceed with the construction, erection, alteration, or equipment of any building until the plans or drawings, specifications, and data have been approved as this section requires, or the industrialized unit inspected at the point of origin. No plans or specifications shall be approved or inspection approval given unless the building represented would, if constructed, repaired, erected, or equipped, comply with Chapters 3781 and 3791 of the Revised Code and any rule made under those chapters.
(Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.05 EXISTING STRUCTURES.
   The provisions of section 115 shall control the alteration, repair, addition, and change of occupancy of any existing structure. The occupancy of any structure currently existing on the date of adoption of this code shall be permitted to continue without change provided the alleged occupancy can be shown to have existed and there are no orders of the building official pending, no evidence of fraud, or no serious safety or sanitation hazard. Buildings constructed in accordance with plans which have been approved prior to the effective date of this code are existing buildings.
(Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.06 VIOLATIONS.
   (a)     Adjudication Orders, Required Before Legal Proceedings. Before any department or any political subdivision attempts to enforce this code by any remedy, civil or criminal, it shall issue an adjudication order within the meaning of sections 119.06 to 119.13 of the Revised Code or a stop work order as provided in section 114. Every adjudication order shall:
      (1)   Cite the law or rules directly involved and shall specify what appliances, site preparations, additions, or alterations to structures, plans, materials, assemblages or procedures are necessary for the same to comply with this code.
      (2)   Include notice to the party of the procedure for appeal and right to a hearing if requested within thirty days of the mailing of the notice. The notice shall also inform the party that at the hearing, the party may be represented by counsel, present arguments or contentions orally or in writing, and present evidence and examine witnesses appearing for or against the party.
   (b)   Notice of Violation. The residential building official is authorized to serve a notice of violation or order on the person responsible for the erection, construction, alteration, extension, repair, moving, removal, demolition or occupancy of a residential building or structure. When the residential building official finds that work or equipment is contrary to approved residential construction documents and the rules of the board, the residential building official shall send a notice in writing to the owner of said residential building or the owner's agent which shall state where and in what respect the work or equipment does not conform to the approved plans for same and the rules of the board. The notice shall specify a reasonable period of time in which to conform to said plans or the rules of the board.
   Before any work may continue on the construction, erection, alteration, or equipment of any residential building for which the approval is invalid, the owner of the residential building shall resubmit the plans or drawings and specifications for approval as required under section 105.3.
   (c)    Prosecution of violation. Upon the issuance of any order provided for in this section or in section 114, the person receiving an order shall cease work upon the site preparations or structure to be constructed or shall cease using the appliance, materials, assemblages or manufactured product identified in the order until such time as the appeal provided for in accordance with the provisions of section 3781.19 of the Revised Code, and all appeals from such hearing have been completed, or the order has been released.
   (d)    Failure to File Construction Documents, Penalty. When an owner fails to file residential construction documents as required by this code and fails to comply with an adjudication order issued under section 113.1, said owner may be prosecuted and is subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars as provided for in section 3791.04 of the Revised Code.
   (e)    Failure to Comply with Order to Conform to Construction Documents, Remedy. If an owner fails to comply with an order issued by the residential building official, and fails to comply with an adjudication order issued under section 113.1 and the time of appeal has expired, then the residential construction documents required under section 3791.04 of the Revised Code are deemed not to have been filed and approved, and the conditions of section 113.4 apply.
(Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.07 STOP WORK.
   (a)    Authority. Whenever any work regulated by this code is being performed in a manner contrary to the provisions of this code or in a dangerous or unsafe manner, the residential building official is authorized to issue a stop work order whenever the building official finds, after inspection, that the site preparations, structure being constructed, the use of an appliance, materials, assemblage, or manufactured product does not comply with the provisions of Chapters 3781 and 3791 of the Revised Code or this code. The effect of such an order shall be limited to the matter specified in the order.
   (b)    Issuance. The stop work order shall be in writing and shall be given to the owner of the property involved, or to the owner's agent and the person doing the work. Upon issuance of a stop work order, the cited work shall immediately cease. The stop work order shall state the reason for the order, and the conditions under which the cited work will be permitted to resume.
   (c)   Unlawful Continuance. No person shall continue any work after having been served with a stop work order, except such work as that person is directed to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition. Failure to cease work after receipt of a stop work order is hereby declared a public nuisance.
(Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)
1303.08 CONFLICTS.
   (a)    General. Where, in any specific case, different sections of this code specify different materials, methods of construction or other requirements, the most restrictive shall govern. Where there is a conflict between a general requirement and a specific requirement, the specific requirement shall be applicable.
   (b)   Other Laws. The provisions of this code shall not be deemed to nullify any provisions of state or federal law. An approval by the board of building standards of any fixture, device, material, system, assembly or product of a manufacturing process, or method or manner of construction or installation shall constitute approval for their use anywhere in Ohio.
   (c)   Rules of the Board. The rules of the board of building standards shall supersede and govern any order, standard, or rule of the division of the fire marshal or industrial compliance in the department of commerce, and the department of health and of counties and townships, in all cases where such orders, standards or rules are in conflict with the rules of the board of building standards, except that rules adopted and orders issued by the fire marshal pursuant to Chapter 3743 of the Revised Code prevail in the event of a conflict.
   (d)    Application of References. References to chapter or section numbers, or to provisions not specifically identified by number, shall be construed to refer to such chapter, section or provision of this code.
   (e)   Referenced Codes and Standards. The codes and standards referenced in this code shall be considered part of the requirements of this code to the prescribed extent of each such reference. Unless specified otherwise in this code, reference in adopted sections to the term "International    Residential Code" shall be changed to "residential code"; reference to "International Fire Code" shall be changed to "fire prevention code"; and reference in design and construction provisions to "one-and two-family dwellings" shall be changed to "one-, two-, and three-family dwellings." Because the "International Code Council" has placed design and construction information throughout its model code documents, including into the fire prevention code, any referenced code requirements relating to the design, construction, alteration, movement, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, removal, and demolition of every building or structure within the scope of this code, shall be enforced by the residential building official. Where differences occur between provisions of this code and referenced standards listed in Chapter 43, the provisions of this code shall apply.
   (f)   Partial Invalidity. In the event any part or provision of this code is held to be illegal or void, this shall not have the effect of making void or illegal any of the other parts or provisions thereof, and it shall be presumed that this code would have been adopted without such illegal or invalid parts or provisions. (Ord. 30-10. Passed 6-22-10.)

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• Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
• ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
• ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
• ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
• Repealed)
• Ord. 30-10
• ordable housing
• adopted the regulation of the board's determination
• adopted pursuant thereto or of any order issued thereunder
• orders of the building official pending, no evidence of fraud, or no serious safety or sanitation hazard
• ordance with plans which have been approved prior to the effective date of this code are existing buildings
• Orders, Required Before Legal Proceedings
• order within the meaning of sections 119
• order as provided in section 114
• order shall:
• order on the person responsible for the erection, construction, alteration, extension, repair, moving, removal, demolition or occupancy of a residential building or structure
• order provided for in this section or in section 114, the person receiving an order shall cease work upon the site preparations or structure to be constructed or shall cease using the
• order until such time as the appeal provided for in accordance with the provisions of section 3781
• order has been released
• order issued under section 113
• Order to Conform to Construction Documents, Remedy
• order issued by the residential building official, and fails to comply with an adjudication order issued under section 113
• order whenever the building official finds, after inspection, that the site preparations, structure being constructed, the use of an appliance, materials, assemblage, or manufactured
• order shall be limited to the matter specified in the order
• order shall be in writing and shall be given to the owner of the property involved, or to the owner's agent and the person doing the work
• order, the cited work shall immediately cease
• order shall state the reason for the order, and the conditions under which the cited work will be permitted to resume
• order, except such work as that person is directed to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition
• order is hereby declared a public nuisance
• order, standard, or rule of the division of the fire marshal or industrial compliance in the department of commerce, and the department of health and of counties and townships, in all
• orders, standards or rules are in conflict with the rules of the board of building standards, except that rules adopted and orders issued by the fire marshal pursuant to Chapter 3743
• adopted sections to the term "International Residential Code" shall be changed to "residential code"; reference to "International Fire Code" shall be changed to "fire prevention code";
• adopted without such illegal or invalid parts or provisions
• Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
• Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
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