2004-23 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 67 - BUILDING CODE

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, ORDINANCE NO. 2004-23 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 67 - -BUILDING CODE - BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 67 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is hereby, amended and modified at Sections 2, 3, 6, and 7 thereof, so that said Sections 2, 3, 6, and 7, as amended, shall provide as follows: 2. BUILDING CODE. The same having been duly placed and remained on filed as required by law, and subject to the additions, modifications, changes or deletions set out in this Chapter, 2003 International Building Code the same being found and declared by the Council to be regulations as defined by applicable statute, is hereby adopted by reference and the same to be known, and which may be cited, as the "The Building Code" of the City, and which shall have the scope and applicability as therein set out, except as modified by the provisions of this Chapter. 3. SUBSTITUTIONS. (A) Whenever in said Code the words, "name of the jurisdiction" or "jurisdiction" appear in brackets, said code is modified by removal of said brackets and substitution of the words "the City of Decatur, Illinois," in lieu of the words contained therein, and said Code shall be taken and construed as if such were expressly so set out therein. (B) Whenever in said Building Code any of the other codes listed first in each of subsections (i) through (vi) hereof is mentioned, such code shall be deleted therefrom and the code listed immediately thereafter said subsection shall be substituted in lieu thereof, as indicated, and said Code shall be taken and construed as if such latter code were expressly so set out therein: (i) International Property Maintenance Code, to be replaced by BOCA National Property Maintenance Code/1993; (ri) International Electric Code, to be replaced by the National