Earlier editions: 2026-07
Title 15 — Buildings and Construction
Patterson Municipal Code Ch. 15.56 California Reference Standard Code
Patterson Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Patterson
Cite as: Patterson Municipal Code Chapter 15.56 · Text as of 2026-10-04
§ 15.56.010. Adoption.¶
That certain document in book form entitled California Reference Standard Code, California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 12, 2022 Edition, including the appendices thereof, as approved and copyrighted by the California Building Standards Commission, 2525 Natomas Park Drive, Suite 130, Sacramento, California, 95833, and International Code Council, 500 New Jersey Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, prescribing regulations governing installation, construction, maintenance, alteration, repair and inspection, one copy of which document is now on file in the office of the city clerk of the city, except as portions thereof are herein specifically amended, deleted and added to, is hereby adopted by reference as the California Reference Standard Code of the city, and from the date on which the ordinance codified in this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the corporate limits of the city.
(Ord. 637 § 1, 2003; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017; Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022)
§ 15.56.020. Purposes.¶
The purposes this chapter are to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and the public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all buildings and structures within the city; to encourage and instruct people to build safely and economically, rather than to discourage building; and to provide a minimum or restrictive enforcement and a maximum of good building information and encouragement.
(Ord. 637 § 2, 2003; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017; Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022)
§ 15.56.030. Penalties.¶
Repealed by Ord. 865.
(Ord. 637 § 3, 2003; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017)
§ 15.56.040. Board of appeals.¶
Repealed by Ord. 865.
(Ord. 637 § 4, 2003; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017)
§ 15.56.050. Validity.¶
The city council of the city hereby declares that should any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of the ordinance codified in this chapter or the code hereby adopted is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter. The city council of the city hereby declares that it would have passed the ordinance codified in this chapter, and each section, subsection, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared unconstitutional.
(Ord. 637 § 5, 2003; Ord. 798 Att. A (part), 2017; Ord. 865 § 5 (Att. A), 2022)
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