The International Existing Building Code 2021 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, is hereby adopted as the Existing Building Code of the City of Eudora, Kansas, regulating and governing energy conservation in the incorporated areas of the City of Eudora, Kansas, as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions, and terms of said Existing Building Code are hereby to, adopted, and made a part thereof, as if fully set out herein, with the additions, insertions, deletions, and changes hereinafter provided.

The regulations hereby adopted, as amended, shall be known as the Existing Building Code of the City of Eudora, Kansas, hereinafter interchangeably referred to as the “Code” or the “Existing Building Code.”

This Code shall not apply to the extent that the Residential Code adopted pursuant to Article 12 of this Chapter applies.

(Ord. 926; Code 2016; Ord. 1101; Ord. 1144)

Not less than one copy of the International Building Code, 2021 Edition, marked and stamped in the manner provided by K.S.A. 12-3304, shall be filed with the City Clerk and shall be open to inspection and available to the public at reasonable business hours. Subsequent references to the “Existing Building Code” shall mean the International Existing Building Code, 2021 Edition, as adopted and amended herein.

(Ord. 926; Code 2016; Ord. 1101; Ord. 1144)

The International Existing Building Code, 2021 Edition, is amended or supplemented as provided below.

4-1002.1 Chapter 1 of the Existing Building Code is deleted and replaced with the provisions of Article 1 of this Chapter 4.

(Ord. 926; Ord. 1101; Ord. 1144)

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase in this Article or in the Existing Building Code is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The Building Official declares that it would have passed this code and each section, subsection, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, and phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalid.

(Ord. 926; Ord. 1101; Ord. 1144)

Nothing herein or in the Existing Building Code hereby adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or resolution repealed in connection with the adoption of the Existing Building Code; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this legislation.

(Ord. 926; Ord. 1101; Ord. 1144)