Santa Ana Municipal Code Art. VI Housing Code

There is adopted by the city that certain code known as the Uniform Housing Code, 1997 Edition, together with the appendices and code standards therein (hereinafter referred to in this article as the "Housing Code"), together with subsequent supplements, amendments, or editions, which shall become effective, adopted, and incorporated by reference into this Code on each new official publication date of the housing code. The housing code is adopted and incorporated by reference as though fully set forth at length herein as provided for in section 419 of the Charter of the city, except for the changes to the housing code set forth in this chapter of this Code that specifically amend the housing code. Any previously enacted, unrepealed provision of this Code that amended a pre-1997 edition of the "Housing Code" shall also be construed as amending the applicable provision of the 1997 or later edition of the housing code. The housing code as amended, together with all other provisions of this article, shall be known as the city housing code.

(Code 1952, § 8700; Ord. No. NS-793, § 3, 4-19-65; Ord. No. NS-1147, § 14, 11-6-72; Ord. No. NS-1215, § 1, 7-1-74; Ord. No. NS-1417, § 1, 4-17-78; Ord. No. NS-1580, § 1, 4-20-81; Ord. No. NS-1808, § 1, 11-18-85; Ord. No. NS-1904, § 1, 6-1-87; Ord. No. NS-2079, § 1, 9-17-90; Ord. No. NS-2182, § 28, 1-19-93; Ord. No. NS-2273, § 39, 12-18-95; Ord. No. NS-2522, § 62, 2-3-03)

Section 201.1 of the Uniform Housing Code is amended to read as follows:

Authority. The building official is hereby authorized and directed to administer and enforce all of the provisions of this code, and the health officer shall enforce those portions of the code as they apply to sanitation, maintenance, ventilation, use or occupancy.

(Ord. No. NS-1417, § 2, 4-17-78; Ord. No. NS-2273, § 40, 12-18-95)

Section 201.2 of the Uniform Housing Code is amended to read as follows:

Right of Entry. Whenever necessary to make an inspection to enforce any of the provisions of this code, or whenever the building official, the health officer or their authorized representatives have reasonable cause to believe that there exists in any building or upon any premises, any condition which makes such building or premises substandard as defined in Section 202 of this code, the building official, the health officer or their authorized representatives may enter such building or premises at all reasonable times to inspect the same or to perform any duty imposed upon the building official or the health officer by this code; provided that if such building or premises be occupied, they shall first present proper credentials and demand entry; and if such building or premises be unoccupied, they shall first make a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other persons having charge or control of the building or premises and demand entry. If such entry is refused, the building official, the health officer or their authorized representatives shall have recourse to every remedy provided by law to secure entry.

No owner or occupant or any other person having charge, care or control of any building or premises shall fail or neglect, after proper demand is made as herein provided, to properly permit entry therein by the building official, the health officer or their authorized representatives for the purpose of inspection and examination pursuant to this code. Any person violating this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. No. NS-1417, § 3, 4-17-78; Ord. No. NS-2273, § 41, 12-18-95)

Section 203 of the housing code is deleted.

(Ord. No. NS-1596, § 6, 9-8-81; Ord. No. NS-2079, § 2, 9-17-90)

Section 204 of the Uniform Housing Code is amended to read as follows:

Section 204. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, whether as owner, tenant, or subtenant, or as the agent of any of the foregoing, to erect, construct, enlarge, equip, use, occupy or maintain any substandard building or any other building or structure which is in violation of this code, or to cause or permit the same to be done.

(Ord. No. NS-1894, § 1, 4-6-87)

Section 1001 of the Uniform Housing Code is amended to read as follows:

Section 1001—Definition.

"Substandard building" shall mean that term as defined in Section 17920.3 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, as the same now exists and as it may hereafter be amended.

(Ord. No. NS-1894, § 2, 4-6-87; Ord. No. NS-2273, § 42, 12-18-95)