2023-94 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 67.2 Residential Building Code

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ORDINANCE NO. �0a3_ q y ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE -CHAPTER 67.2- -RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CODE— BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 67.2 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois,be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amending Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8, so that Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8, as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 2. RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CODE. The same having been duly placed and remained on file as required by law and subject to the additions, modifications, changes or deletions set out in this Chapter, 2021 International Residential 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 Residential 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. 4. BUILDING INSPECTIONS. Whenever in said Code reference is made to the "code official", such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Building Official or his designee as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words; whenever reference is therein made to the Department of Building Inspections or similar reference, such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Building Inspections Division of the Economic & Community Development Department as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words. 6. REFERENCES. Whenever in said Building Code any of the other codes listed first in each of subsections (i) through(iii)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 Plumbing Code, to be replaced by the Plumbing Code of the State of Illinois Department of Public Health; (ii) International Private Sewage Disposal Code,to be replaced by the Illinois Private Sewage Code; and, (iii) International Energy Conservation Code, to be replaced by the Illinois Energy Conservation Code . 7. DELETIONS. The following numbered Chapters, Articles or Sections of said Code are deleted therefrom and the provisions thereof are not adopted hereby: Section Number(inclusive) R103.2 R105.2 Building: (item#2) R112 R302.1 Exceptions 2, 3 &4