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CITY OF MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA ORDINANCE NO. 2001-5 7/10/01 Agenda Item IV WHEREAS, the Virginia Board of Housing and Community Development by its order entered on May 22, 2000, adopted the present edition of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, which became effective on September 16, 2000, and, WHEREAS, Part 1II thereunder sets forth the scope, administration, and enforcement procedures for the local option enforcement of the maintenance provisions of the USBC, and, WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Martinsville City Council to enforce the property maintenance provisions of the USBC in their entirety, and to assign responsibility for the enforcement of same to its Inspection Division as the local enforcing agency and the building official as the building maintenance code official. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia in regular session held on July 10, 2001 that the Inspection Division be, and it hereby is, designated to act at the enforcing agency for the enforcement of the maintenance provisions of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (USBC) and the therein referenced BOCA National Property Maintenance Code (BNPMC) as duly amended and adopted by the Virginia Board of Housing and Community Development under authority of {}36-98, Code of Virginia. Enforcement shall be according to the USBC and the term of this ordinance. BE IT FURTHF-R ORDAINED that the enforcement procedure shall be instituted and administered by the building maintenance code official in accordance with the provisions of the USBC and that said building maintenance code official shall establish such procedures or requirements as may be necessary, but not in conflict with the USBC, for administration and enforcement of this ordinance. The procedures are to be approved by this Council. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the local board of building code appeals is hereby designated to hear appeals arising from the application of the maintenance provisions of the USBC. BE 1T FURTHER ORDAINED that should any provision of this ordinance be declared by the Courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole, or any part there of other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that ordinances numbered 95-10 and 97-13 heretofore adopted by Council be, and they hereby are, revoked and rescinded in their entirety. BE 1T FURTHER ORDAINED that an emergency exists and that this ordinance shall become effective on and after this date.