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 "url": "https://www.openshowerco.com/which-building-code-a-central-ohio-house-was-built-under.html",
 "title": "Which building code a Central Ohio house was built under, and what the record can say",
 "record": "kb-wave-thirteen-codes-wiring-floods-and-heating-2026-09",
 "generated": "2026-09-08",
 "how_to_read": "Every sentence on the page traces to one of these claims. status \"verified\" means two independent publishers state it; \"single\" means one named publisher, named in the page's sentence; \"conflict\" means the documents disagree and the page prints both.",
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "C1",
   "claim": "Ohio's residential code says which code a house was built to is decided by the plans: buildings constructed under plans approved before an edition took effect are existing buildings under it.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "constructed in accordance with plans which have been approved prior to the effective date",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C2",
   "claim": "The same code says a device or safeguard already installed is kept to the edition it was installed under, not to the current one.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "maintained in conformance with the code edition under which installed",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C3",
   "claim": "Work done now is judged by today's code, not the house's own era: additions and alterations to a house must meet the code's requirements for new construction, while the parts not altered need not.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Additions or alterations to residential buildings shall conform with the requirements",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C4",
   "claim": "Ohio's General Assembly passed the state's first building code act on May 31, 1911, and the governor approved it on June 14, 1911.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "Passed May 31, 1911. Approved, June 14, 1911.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Industrial Commission of Ohio (printed by The F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus; digitized by Google from the New York Public Library copy, at the Internet Archive)",
     "title": "Ohio State Building Code",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/ohiostatebuildi00ohiogoog",
     "published": "1914"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C5",
   "claim": "That 1911 act was titled as establishing a building code regulating the construction of, repair of, alteration on and additions to public and other buildings.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Establishing a building code, regulating the construction of, repair of, alteration on",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Industrial Commission of Ohio (printed by The F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus; digitized by Google from the New York Public Library copy, at the Internet Archive)",
     "title": "Ohio State Building Code",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/ohiostatebuildi00ohiogoog",
     "published": "1914"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C6",
   "claim": "The buildings the 1911 act named were public assembly buildings, not houses: its own list runs from opera houses and theaters through schoolhouses, hospitals, asylums, armories and assembly halls.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "opera house, hall, theater, church, school-house, college, academy, seminary, infirmary",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Industrial Commission of Ohio (printed by The F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus; digitized by Google from the New York Public Library copy, at the Internet Archive)",
     "title": "Ohio State Building Code",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/ohiostatebuildi00ohiogoog",
     "published": "1914"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C7",
   "claim": "The 1911 act said in its own words that it did not repeal any part of a building code a municipal corporation already had in force, which is where Ohio's rule about older city codes comes from.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "any building code adopted by a municipal corporation and now in force",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Industrial Commission of Ohio (printed by The F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus; digitized by Google from the New York Public Library copy, at the Internet Archive)",
     "title": "Ohio State Building Code",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/ohiostatebuildi00ohiogoog",
     "published": "1914"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.01 | Municipal corporation may make additional regulations",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.01",
     "published": "2005-05-27"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C8",
   "claim": "Ohio Revised Code 3781.01 still says the state's building chapters do not modify or repeal any part of a municipal building code that was in force on September 13, 1911 and is not in direct conflict with them.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "adopted by a municipal corporation and in force on September 13, 1911",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.01 | Municipal corporation may make additional regulations",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.01",
     "published": "2005-05-27"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C9",
   "claim": "Ohio's Department of Inspection of Workshops, Factories and Public Buildings had published a building code of its own by 1908, and it was about school buildings.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Department of Inspection of Workshops, Factories and Public Buildings (digitized by the Internet Archive from the Library of Congress copy)",
     "title": "The building code of the Department of Inspection of Workshops, Factories and Public Buildings of the State of Ohio relating to the construction of school buildings",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodeofde00ohio",
     "published": "1908"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C10",
   "claim": "The Board of Building Standards says the legislature authorized a state building code by administrative rule in 1955 and named the Board as the agency responsible.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "In 1955 the legislature authorized adoption of a state building code by administrative",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C11",
   "claim": "The Board's own history records that the 1955 state code left houses out: the legislature specifically exempted one-, two- and three-family dwellings and agricultural buildings.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The state legislature specifically exempted 1-, 2-, 3-family dwellings and agricultural buildings.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C12",
   "claim": "Ohio wrote and maintained its own state building code from the 1950s, developed with professors at Case Western University and the University of Akron, and had not updated it since 1971 when the state's building officials asked for a change in 1973.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "the Board had not continued to update the building code since 1971",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C13",
   "claim": "The Board adopted the model codes of the Building Officials and Code Administrators International as the Ohio Basic Building Codes on September 29, 1978, and set them to take effect July 1, 1979.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "the Board adopted the BOCA codes as the Ohio Basic Building Codes",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C14",
   "claim": "The Board's published timeline of what each Ohio Basic Building Code edition was based on runs from the 1978 BOCA seventh edition in 1979 to the 2006 International Building Code in 2007, and stops there.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "1978 BOCA - 7th Edition",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "About BBS",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-programs/industrial-compliance/boards/board-of-building-standards/about-bbs",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C15",
   "claim": "The state's own rule reaches further back than the Board's timeline: the administration rule of the Ohio Building Code carries prior effective dates beginning July 7, 1969.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "7/7/1969, 3/26/1971, 4/15/1974, 2/15/1975, 7/1/1977",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:1-1-01 | Administration (Ohio Building Code), rule page and supplemental information",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-4101:1-1-01",
     "published": "2025-10-15"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C16",
   "claim": "The Board says the BOCA model codes it had used were replaced by the International Code Council family of model codes from the mid 1990s into the early 2000s.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "replaced by the International Code Council (ICC) family of model codes",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C17",
   "claim": "Ohio had no statewide building code for houses until May 27, 2006: every chapter of the Residential Code of Ohio carries that date as its earliest prior effective date.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "5/27/2006, 7/1/2007, 1/1/2008, 1/1/2009, 1/1/2013, 1/1/2015, 1/1/2016, 1/1/2018",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 | Administration (Residential Code of Ohio), rule page and supplemental information",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-4101:8-1-01",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C18",
   "claim": "Ohio Revised Code 3781.10 directs the Board of Building Standards to write its building rules into separate residential and nonresidential building codes.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The board shall incorporate those rules into separate residential and nonresidential building codes.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.10 | Board of building standards - powers and duties",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.10",
     "published": "2025-09-30"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C19",
   "claim": "The statute defines the houses the residential code reaches: a residential building is a one-family, two-family or three-family dwelling house and any accessory structure incidental to it.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "\"Residential building\" means a one-family, two-family, or three-family dwelling house",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.06 | Buildings to be safe and sanitary - definitions",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.06",
     "published": "2025-01-01"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Worthington, Ohio, Division of Building Regulation",
     "title": "Applicable Codes",
     "url": "https://www.worthington.org/140/Applicable-Codes",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C20",
   "claim": "The Residential Code of Ohio in force today took effect July 1, 2019, and the Board adopted it at its meeting of December 14, 2018.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "These rule amendments were adopted with an effective date of July 1, 2019.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Code of Ohio effective July 1, 2019 (Amendments Group 97 adoption notice and rule text)",
     "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/edp/documents/bbst_residentialcodeofohioeffectivejuly12019.pdf",
     "published": "2018-12"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 | Administration (Residential Code of Ohio), rule page and supplemental information",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-4101:8-1-01",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C21",
   "claim": "That code is Ohio's edit of a national model: the Board says it rewrote the residential chapters to reflect the 2018 edition of the International Residential Code with Ohio amendments.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "update the current Residential Code of Ohio to reflect the 2018 edition",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Code of Ohio effective July 1, 2019 (Amendments Group 97 adoption notice and rule text)",
     "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/edp/documents/bbst_residentialcodeofohioeffectivejuly12019.pdf",
     "published": "2018-12"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C22",
   "claim": "The state's other building code is on a newer model year than the house code: the Ohio Building Code in force since October 15, 2025 incorporates the 2021 International Building Code.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "the International Building Code 2021 edition, Chapters 2 through 35 and appendix H",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:1-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Ohio Building Code, effective 10/15/2025",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/1/4101%241-1-01_eff_10_15_25.pdf",
     "published": "2025-10-15"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Worthington, Ohio, Division of Building Regulation",
     "title": "Applicable Codes",
     "url": "https://www.worthington.org/140/Applicable-Codes",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C23",
   "claim": "The two state codes do not overlap: the Ohio Building Code applies to every use group except one-, two- and three-family dwellings, and the residential code applies only to those.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "the 2019 Residential Code of Ohio applies only to 1-, 2-, and 3-family dwellings",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Worthington, Ohio, Division of Building Regulation",
     "title": "Applicable Codes",
     "url": "https://www.worthington.org/140/Applicable-Codes",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C24",
   "claim": "Columbus had a building code of its own long before the state did: the city council passed one on November 23, 1905 and the mayor approved it four days later.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Passed November 23, 1905.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C25",
   "claim": "That code took effect on January 1, 1906, and it repealed an earlier building ordinance the city had passed on November 14, 1904.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1, 1906",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C26",
   "claim": "The 1905 code says what it was for in its own title: to regulate the construction, erection, repair of, alterations in and additions to buildings and other structures in the City of Columbus.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "To regulate the construction, erection, repair of, alterations in and additions to, buildings",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C27",
   "claim": "A Columbus building permit and a city building inspector are both older than any state house code: the 1905 code makes it unlawful to build, repair or alter without first applying to and receiving a permit from the inspector of buildings.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "shall have made application to and received from the inspector of buildings",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C28",
   "claim": "The 1905 Columbus code reached ordinary houses, not just downtown blocks: it set the foundation material for dwelling houses and other wooden structures at brick, stone, vitrified hollow tile or concrete, not less than eight inches thick.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Foundations for dwelling houses and other wooden structures shall be of brick, stone",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C29",
   "claim": "The same code wrote a rule for the frame house specifically: a frame dwelling of not more than two stories could have eight-inch outside foundation walls of brick, Portland cement concrete or vitrified hollow tile where the basement floor sat no more than five and a half feet below the established grade, and four inches thicker where it sat lower.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Frame dwellings not over two stories high may have outside foundation walls of brick",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C30",
   "claim": "The 1905 code also set how deep to dig for a house: excavations for the foundation walls of a two-story frame dwelling had to go not less than twenty-four inches below the established grade line of the lot.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "shall be not less than twenty-four inches below the established grade line",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C31",
   "claim": "The building title of the Columbus City Code is Title 41, and the city's own legislative record calls the code it sits in the Columbus City Codes, 1959.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "the Columbus Building Code, Title 41, of the Columbus City Codes, 1959",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4103.03, Building Codes incorporated",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4103_sec4103.03",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C32",
   "claim": "Much of the shape Title 41 still has was set in 1986: the purpose section and the new-work section of its interpretation chapter both carry a single 1986 ordinance as their history note.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "(Ord. 2229-86.)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4103, Interpretation and Application, sections 4103.01, 4103.02, 4103.07 and 4103.08",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4103",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
     "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, September 27, 1986, pages 1524 and 1568: Ordinance No. 2229-86 as passed",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/95039",
     "published": "1986-09-27"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C33",
   "claim": "Columbus kept a chapter of its own for houses until 1999: Title 41 carried chapter 4177, One-, Two- and Three-Family Dwellings Code, which ran to section 4177.221 when it was repealed.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "consisting of Sections 4177.01 to 4177.221 was repealed by Ordinance No. 1404-99",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4177, One-, Two- and Three-Family Dwellings Code",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4177",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
     "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, September 27, 1986, pages 1524 and 1568: Ordinance No. 2229-86 as passed",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/95039",
     "published": "1986-09-27"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C34",
   "claim": "That chapter was repealed by city ordinance 1404-99, which the council passed on June 21, 1999 and the mayor approved the next day.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Passed June 21, 1999",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4177, One-, Two- and Three-Family Dwellings Code",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4177",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
     "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, June 26, 1999, page 1289 and following: Ordinance No. 1404-99 as passed",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/129148",
     "published": "1999-06-26"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C35",
   "claim": "The section that now carries Columbus's adoption of the state codes has four ordinances in its history note, from 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2006.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Ord. 480-98 § 1; Ord. 1404-99 § 1; Ord. 1349-01 § 1",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4103.03, Building Codes incorporated",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4103_sec4103.03",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C36",
   "claim": "Columbus now incorporates the state's house code by reference rather than writing its own: section 4103.03 declares the Residential Code of Ohio in full force and effect as adopted or republished by the Board of Building Standards.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The Residential Code of Ohio for one-, two- and three-family dwellings (RCO) as adopted",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4103.03, Building Codes incorporated",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4103_sec4103.03",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C37",
   "claim": "Columbus made the switch to the state house code in two ordinances in 2006: one passed May 3 adopting the newly promulgated statewide residential code, and one passed July 12 repealing the chapter that had held the city's own residential construction standards.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "to coincide with the adopted new statewide model Residential Code of Ohio (RCO)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4127.01, Residential Code of Ohio (RCO)",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4127_sec4127.01",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C38",
   "claim": "The Columbus chapter that now adopts the state house code has been amended three times since 2006, in 2007, 2010 and 2018.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Ord. No. 0165-2010, § 2, 5-17-2010",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4127.01, Residential Code of Ohio (RCO)",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4127_sec4127.01",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C39",
   "claim": "Columbus still writes rules of its own on top of the state house code, in a chapter of local supplements that applies to all one-, two- and three-family dwellings in the city.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "shall apply to all one-, two-, and three-family dwellings and all structures not covered",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4127.09, Columbus revision to the Residential Code of Ohio, Part VIII Electrical",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4127_sec4127.09",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C40",
   "claim": "Ohio's statute allows that: the state residential code does not prevent a local governing authority from adopting additional regulations that do not conflict with it.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "does not prevent a local governing authority from adopting additional regulations governing residential structures",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.01 | Municipal corporation may make additional regulations",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.01",
     "published": "2005-05-27"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.10 | Board of building standards - powers and duties",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.10",
     "published": "2025-09-30"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C41",
   "claim": "Outside that door the statute is closed: no local code or regulation may differ from the state residential building code for new construction or for repair and alteration of existing houses.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "shall any local code or regulation differ from the state residential building code",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.10 | Board of building standards - powers and duties",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.10",
     "published": "2025-09-30"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 307.37 | Local residential building regulations",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-307.37",
     "published": "2025-04-09"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C42",
   "claim": "The Columbus department that enforces the building code today was created in 2010: a city ordinance passed April 6, 2010 eliminated the Division of Building Services and created the Department of Building and Zoning Services.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "to create the new Department of Building and Zoning Services",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
     "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
     "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4105, Powers, Duties, and Enforcement, with editor's note",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4105",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C43",
   "claim": "Columbus keeps a building commission of seven voting members appointed by the mayor to rule on alternate materials and on how the building code should be read.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "there is hereby created a building commission, consisting of seven voting members",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4107.01, Building commission: organization; composition; term",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4107_sec4107.01",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C44",
   "claim": "Columbus requires a separate permit for each building before anyone erects, alters, repairs, moves or demolishes it, and says no permit is needed for maintenance work done in the same material the building was built of.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "without first obtaining a separate permit for each such building or structure",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Columbus City Code section 4113.37, Building permits",
     "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4113_sec4113.37",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C45",
   "claim": "In the unincorporated townships of Franklin County the county is the building department: it says it issues building permits for one-, two- and three-family residential structures, and that the State of Ohio issues commercial permits.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "responsible for issuing building permits for 1-, 2- and 3-family residential structures",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department",
     "title": "Building (Franklin County Building Department)",
     "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/Business-Development/Development-Planning/Building-Permits/Building",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
     "published": "2023-08-16"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C46",
   "claim": "Franklin County names the code it enforces on a house: it tells applicants to refer to the 2019 Residential Code of Ohio.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "For Franklin County Building Code, refer to the 2019 Residential Code of Ohio (RCO).",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department",
     "title": "Building (Franklin County Building Department)",
     "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/Business-Development/Development-Planning/Building-Permits/Building",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 | Administration (Residential Code of Ohio), rule page and supplemental information",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-4101:8-1-01",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C47",
   "claim": "The zoning half is separate from the building half in the county's own account: seven townships and six villages issue their own zoning compliance, ten townships get it from the county's planning department, and two villages issue both the zoning compliance and the building permit.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Groveport and Obetz will issue both the zoning compliance and the building permits",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department",
     "title": "Building (Franklin County Building Department)",
     "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/Business-Development/Development-Planning/Building-Permits/Building",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department",
     "title": "Building Permits",
     "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/Business-Development/Development-Planning/Building-Permits",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C48",
   "claim": "Ohio law lets a board of county commissioners adopt local residential building regulations for the unincorporated area, subject to the same no-difference rule that binds a city.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The board of county commissioners may adopt local residential building regulations governing residential buildings",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 307.37 | Local residential building regulations",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-307.37",
     "published": "2025-04-09"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 307.38 | County building inspector - contracts",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-307.38",
     "published": "2005-05-27"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C49",
   "claim": "No Ohio building department may enforce a code it is not certified for: the statute says departments have jurisdiction only for the types of buildings and subject matters for which they are certified.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "only with respect to the types of buildings and subject matters",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.10 | Board of building standards - powers and duties",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.10",
     "published": "2025-09-30"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
     "published": "2023-08-16"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C50",
   "claim": "The Board of Building Standards keeps a Residential Building Department Certification List naming the certified county and municipal departments and, under each, the smaller places it serves.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
     "published": "2023-08-16"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C51",
   "claim": "Six of the seven Central Ohio counties hold their own residential certification from the Board of Building Standards: Delaware, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Franklin County (#343)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
     "published": "2023-08-16"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce (jurisdiction map dataset, hosted on the State of Ohio's ArcGIS portal)",
     "title": "BBS_Jurisdictions feature service, layer 0 (Jurisdictions), behind the Board's interactive jurisdiction map",
     "url": "https://maps.ohio.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/BBS_Jurisdictions/FeatureServer/0",
     "published": "2025-09-18"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C52",
   "claim": "The same list carries separate certified departments for Columbus and for the suburbs a reader is most likely to live in, among them Bexley, Dublin, Gahanna, Grandview Heights, Grove City, Hilliard, New Albany, Pickerington, Powell, Reynoldsburg, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Whitehall and Worthington.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Columbus (#316)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
     "published": "2023-08-16"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce (jurisdiction map dataset, hosted on the State of Ohio's ArcGIS portal)",
     "title": "BBS_Jurisdictions feature service, layer 0 (Jurisdictions), behind the Board's interactive jurisdiction map",
     "url": "https://maps.ohio.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/BBS_Jurisdictions/FeatureServer/0",
     "published": "2025-09-18"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C53",
   "claim": "Who inspects the plumbing differs between neighboring suburbs: on the Board's current record Grove City, Powell and Worthington enforce locally, while Bexley, Dublin, Gahanna, Hilliard, Reynoldsburg, Upper Arlington, Westerville and Whitehall are served by the county health agency.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Plmg - Plumbing: Enforce Locally",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
     "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
     "published": "2023-08-16"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce (jurisdiction map dataset, hosted on the State of Ohio's ArcGIS portal)",
     "title": "BBS_Jurisdictions feature service, layer 0 (Jurisdictions), behind the Board's interactive jurisdiction map",
     "url": "https://maps.ohio.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/BBS_Jurisdictions/FeatureServer/0",
     "published": "2025-09-18"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C54",
   "claim": "Where no certified residential department has jurisdiction, Ohio law does not send the house to the state: the owner is simply not required to submit plans, which is not true of a commercial building.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "the owner is not required to make the submissions described in division (A)(1)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3791.04 | Submission of plans for approval",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3791.04",
     "published": "2012-09-10"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C55",
   "claim": "Under today's code an owner who intends to build, alter, repair or move a house, or to work on its electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing systems, applies first to the residential building official of a certified residential building department.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "first make application to the residential building official of a certified residential building department",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C56",
   "claim": "Westerville adopts the Board of Building Standards' codes by reference under its city charter, and its adopting section carries three ordinances: one passed May 16, 2006, one June 2, 2009 and one July 7, 2026.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "(Ord. 06-14. Passed 5-16-06; Ord. 09-24. Passed 6-2-09; Ord. 2026-13. Passed 7-7-26.)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Westerville, Ohio)",
     "title": "Westerville Codified Ordinances section 1301.01, Codes Adopted",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/westerville/latest/westerville_oh/0-0-0-14856",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C57",
   "claim": "Worthington gives the house code a chapter of its own, chapter 1305, adopted by an ordinance passed May 6, 2019, and adds Appendix G of the 2012 International Residential Code for swimming pools.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "(Ord. 15-2019. Passed 5-6-19.)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Worthington, Ohio)",
     "title": "Worthington Codified Ordinances section 1305.01, Adoption of Residential Code of Ohio",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/worthington/latest/worthington_oh/0-0-0-34790",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Worthington, Ohio, Division of Building Regulation",
     "title": "Applicable Codes",
     "url": "https://www.worthington.org/140/Applicable-Codes",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C58",
   "claim": "Upper Arlington's building code is Part 13 of its codified ordinances, and it adopts the Residential Code of Ohio by reference in its current edition, including Appendix G for pools, as controlling for one-, two- and three-family dwellings.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Residential Code of Ohio for One, Two and Three Family Dwellings, current Edition",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Upper Arlington Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Upper Arlington Codified Ordinances section 1300.01, Composition of the Code",
     "url": "https://upperarlington-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_pt13_ch1300_sec1300.01",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Upper Arlington, Ohio",
     "title": "Building",
     "url": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/237/Building",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C59",
   "claim": "Upper Arlington keeps a board of building standards of its own, which the city says makes recommendations to council on amendments to the residential building code and hears appeals.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "make recommendations to City Council on amendments to the Residential Building Code",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Upper Arlington, Ohio",
     "title": "Building",
     "url": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/237/Building",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C60",
   "claim": "Bexley files its building rules the other way around, giving each code its own chapter: chapter 1410 for the Residential Building Code of Ohio, 1412 for the Ohio Building Code, 1414 for the National Electrical Code and 1416 for the Ohio Plumbing Code.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Chap. 1410 . Residential Building Code of Ohio.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Bexley, Ohio)",
     "title": "Bexley Codified Ordinances, Part Fourteen, Building and Housing Code, and chapter 1410, Residential Building Code of Ohio",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/bexley/latest/bexley_oh/0-0-0-42458",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C61",
   "claim": "All four suburbs read for this page adopt the state house code in its current edition or as amended rather than by year, so their rules change when Ohio's do and no local ordinance marks the change.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "as may be amended from time to time",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Westerville, Ohio)",
     "title": "Westerville Codified Ordinances section 1301.01, Codes Adopted",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/westerville/latest/westerville_oh/0-0-0-14856",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Worthington, Ohio)",
     "title": "Worthington Codified Ordinances section 1305.01, Adoption of Residential Code of Ohio",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/worthington/latest/worthington_oh/0-0-0-34790",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "eLaws (Upper Arlington Code of Ordinances)",
     "title": "Upper Arlington Codified Ordinances section 1300.01, Composition of the Code",
     "url": "https://upperarlington-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_pt13_ch1300_sec1300.01",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Bexley, Ohio)",
     "title": "Bexley Codified Ordinances section 1410.01, Adoption by reference",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/bexley/latest/bexley_oh/0-0-0-42506",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C62",
   "claim": "A Columbus permit record is a city record, held by the Department of Building and Zoning Services, and the requests its records section names are violations, zoning text, certificates of occupancy, capacity cards and site plans.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "please allow 7 to 10 business days for an accurate request",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio, Department of Building and Zoning Services",
     "title": "Records Research",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Building-Zoning-Services/Records-Research",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C64",
   "claim": "The plans that decide which code a house was built to are not kept forever by the builder or the owner: under the 1905 Columbus code they stayed with the city inspector until the work was finished, and under today's state code the approval is issued by a certified department.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "shall remain in the custody of the inspector of buildings until the proposed work",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
     "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
     "published": "1905"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C65",
   "claim": "The sentence Ohio still uses about older city codes is the 1911 act's own: the act said it would not modify or repeal any part of a building code a municipal corporation had adopted and then had in force, and the Revised Code today says the same thing with the date fixed.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "modify or repeal any portions of any building code adopted by a municipal corporation",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Industrial Commission of Ohio (printed by The F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus; digitized by Google from the New York Public Library copy, at the Internet Archive)",
     "title": "Ohio State Building Code",
     "url": "https://archive.org/details/ohiostatebuildi00ohiogoog",
     "published": "1914"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
     "title": "Section 3781.01 | Municipal corporation may make additional regulations",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.01",
     "published": "2005-05-27"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C66",
   "claim": "Columbus rewrote its building title around the state's code in 1986: an ordinance the council passed on September 15, 1986 revised twenty-one chapters of Title 41 and seventeen of Title 43 and pointed the city's building code at the Ohio Basic Building Code, which the city's own text then identified as the 1984 BOCA ninth edition as amended by the state.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "The BOCA Basic/National Building Code 1984, ninth edition",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
     "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, September 27, 1986, pages 1524 and 1568: Ordinance No. 2229-86 as passed",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/95039",
     "published": "1986-09-27"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C67",
   "claim": "Columbus stopped naming a model-code edition in 1998: an ordinance passed February 23, 1998 replaced the specific references in the city's building code with a general reference to the Ohio Basic Building Code, so the city would not have to legislate every time the state changed edition.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "replace the specific references to the OBBC contained in the Columbus Building Code",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
     "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, February 28, 1998, page 446: Ordinance No. 480-98 as passed",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/125231",
     "published": "1998-02-28"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C68",
   "claim": "Between 1999 and 2006 the rules for a Columbus house were a model code the city adopted by reference: the 1999 ordinance put the Ohio Building Officials Association's One-, Two- and Three-Family Dwelling Code into the city code for every structure the state building code did not cover.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The \"OBOA One-, Two-, and Three-Family Dwelling Code,\" published by the Ohio",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
     "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, June 26, 1999, page 1289 and following: Ordinance No. 1404-99 as passed",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/129148",
     "published": "1999-06-26"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C69",
   "claim": "The Board of Building Standards says the 2013 edition of the Residential Code of Ohio was based on the 2009 model code of the International Code Council.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "the 2013 edition of the RCO based upon the 2009 ICC model code documents",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Commentary, RCO Chapter 1 - Administration",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/RCOChapter_1_Commentary.pdf",
     "published": "2019-06"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C70",
   "claim": "There is a document that answers the which-code question for a house, and it is not the year built: Ohio's residential code requires a certificate of occupancy to state the edition of the residential code under which the plan approval was issued.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The edition of the residential code under which the plan approval was",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
     "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
     "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
     "published": "2019-07-01"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
     "title": "Commentary, RCO Chapter 1 - Administration",
     "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/RCOChapter_1_Commentary.pdf",
     "published": "2019-06"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C71",
   "claim": "Bexley adopted the state house code by an ordinance passed December 11, 2007, and adopted it together with any and all amendments to it.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "(Ord. 111-07. Passed 12-11-07.)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Bexley, Ohio)",
     "title": "Bexley Codified Ordinances section 1410.01, Adoption by reference",
     "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/bexley/latest/bexley_oh/0-0-0-42506",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [
  {
   "claim_id": "C21",
   "a": "The 2018 edition of the International Residential Code is the basis of the Residential Code of Ohio",
   "a_source": "S11 and S14 (rule text section 101.1 and the Board's adoption notice)",
   "b": "The base code documents adopted are the 2009 International Residential Code and its errata",
   "b_source": "S38 (the Board's own Commentary, RCO Chapter 1, June 2019, in the paragraph directly under the quoted 101.1)",
   "printed": "print A because the rule is the code and the commentary quotes the 2018 text on the same page; the 2009 sentence is stale commentary carried forward from an earlier edition. Confirmed by the verifier, who also found the commentary's own explanation of the staleness forty pages later: it says the 2013 edition of the code was the one based on the 2009 model documents. The page does not print the 2009 figure against the current code; it prints it against the 2013 edition, as C69."
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C25",
   "a": "The 1905 Columbus code repeals Ordinance No. 23,073 passed November 14, 1904 (the ordinance's own title)",
   "a_source": "S26",
   "b": "The same code's section 115 repeals Ordinance No. 22073 passed November 14, 1904",
   "b_source": "S26",
   "printed": "print neither number; the date is the same in both places and is what prints. CORRECTED by the verifier: the researcher wrote that the difference might be the scan, and it is not. Both numbers are clean on the page images at 500 to 600 dots per inch. The internal evidence favors 22073: the same volume reprints Ordinance No. 22,110, passed November 28, 1904, and the city's 1917 plumbing code reprints Ordinance No. 23482, passed September 16, 1907, so a Columbus ordinance passed on November 14, 1904 belongs in the 22,000s and 23,073 is a misprint. That reasoning is recorded, not printed."
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C14",
   "a": "The Board's published adoption history runs to 1 July 2007 and stops",
   "a_source": "S07 and S15",
   "b": "The Ohio Building Code's own rule carries prior effective dates through 3/1/2024",
   "b_source": "S10",
   "printed": "print both, as two different records: the Board's narrative history ends in 2007, and the rule's own effective-date list is what carries the sequence after that. The page says which record each date comes from."
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C53",
   "a": "Bexley and Reynoldsburg enforce plumbing locally",
   "a_source": "S13, the Board's certification list as generated 8/16/2023",
   "b": "Bexley and Reynoldsburg are served by Franklin County Public Health",
   "b_source": "S44, the dataset behind the Board's own jurisdiction map, last edited 2025-09-18",
   "printed": "print B, the newer record, and say the date. Found by the verifier. Both are the Board of Building Standards; the map is the record the Board now points the public at, and the list it replaced is two and a half years older. The page dates the statement rather than presenting it as timeless."
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C47",
   "a": "Six villages in unincorporated Franklin County issue their own zoning compliance and apply to the county for the building permit",
   "a_source": "S29, Franklin County's Building page",
   "b": "Seven villages do, the seventh being Canal Winchester",
   "b_source": "S30, Franklin County's Building Permits page",
   "printed": "print the Building page's six and say the county's other page lists a seventh. Found by the verifier. One publisher, two pages, two lists; the page should name the county and the date read rather than choosing."
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C38",
   "a": "Ordinance 0165-2010 dates from 5-17-2010 and Ordinance 2647-2018 from 10-22-2018",
   "a_source": "S18, the history note in the codified ordinances",
   "b": "Ordinance 0165-2010 passed May 20, 2010 and Ordinance 2647-2018 passed October 24, 2018",
   "b_source": "S17, the city's own legislative record",
   "printed": "print the legislative record's passage dates. Found by the verifier. The codifier's dates are the agenda dates in the same record, which run three days and two days earlier; the same pattern shows on the editor's note to chapter 4105, which dates Ordinance 0455-2010 to April 5, 2010 where the record gives passage on April 6, 2010."
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "id": "S01",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 3781.01 | Municipal corporation may make additional regulations",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.01",
   "published": "2005-05-27"
  },
  {
   "id": "S02",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 3781.06 | Buildings to be safe and sanitary - definitions",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.06",
   "published": "2025-01-01"
  },
  {
   "id": "S03",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 3781.10 | Board of building standards - powers and duties",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.10",
   "published": "2025-09-30"
  },
  {
   "id": "S04",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 3781.11 | Rules of board of building standards",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.11",
   "published": "2023-10-03"
  },
  {
   "id": "S05",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 307.37 | Local residential building regulations",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-307.37",
   "published": "2025-04-09"
  },
  {
   "id": "S06",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 307.38 | County building inspector - contracts",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-307.38",
   "published": "2005-05-27"
  },
  {
   "id": "S07",
   "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
   "title": "History of BBS (bbst_BBSAbout.pdf)",
   "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/bbst_BBSAbout.pdf",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S08",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 3781.03 | Enforcement of building standards",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3781.03",
   "published": "2012-09-10"
  },
  {
   "id": "S09",
   "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
   "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 | Administration (Residential Code of Ohio), rule page and supplemental information",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-4101:8-1-01",
   "published": "2019-07-01"
  },
  {
   "id": "S10",
   "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
   "title": "Rule 4101:1-1-01 | Administration (Ohio Building Code), rule page and supplemental information",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-4101:1-1-01",
   "published": "2025-10-15"
  },
  {
   "id": "S11",
   "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
   "title": "Rule 4101:8-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Residential Code of Ohio, effective 7/1/2019",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/8/4101%248-1-01_eff_7_1_19.pdf",
   "published": "2019-07-01"
  },
  {
   "id": "S12",
   "publisher": "Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov)",
   "title": "Rule 4101:1-1-01 rule text, Chapter 1 Administration, Ohio Building Code, effective 10/15/2025",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/rules/4101/1/4101%241-1-01_eff_10_15_25.pdf",
   "published": "2025-10-15"
  },
  {
   "id": "S13",
   "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
   "title": "Residential Building Department Certification List",
   "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/61a8e259-f536-4d2e-a30e-02e492f4cc91/bbst_ResidentialBuildingDepartmentList.pdf?MOD=AJPERES",
   "published": "2023-08-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "S14",
   "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
   "title": "Residential Code of Ohio effective July 1, 2019 (Amendments Group 97 adoption notice and rule text)",
   "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/edp/documents/bbst_residentialcodeofohioeffectivejuly12019.pdf",
   "published": "2018-12"
  },
  {
   "id": "S15",
   "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
   "title": "About BBS",
   "url": "https://com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-programs/industrial-compliance/boards/board-of-building-standards/about-bbs",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S16",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code section 4103.03, Building Codes incorporated",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4103_sec4103.03",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S17",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus (Legistar legislative record)",
   "title": "City of Columbus legislation web API, matters by file number",
   "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/columbus/matters?$filter=MatterFile%20eq%20'1140-2006'",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S18",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code section 4127.01, Residential Code of Ohio (RCO)",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4127_sec4127.01",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S19",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4177, One-, Two- and Three-Family Dwellings Code",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4177",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S20",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code section 4125.01, Ohio Building Code (OBC)",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4125_sec4125.01",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S21",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4103, Interpretation and Application, sections 4103.01, 4103.02, 4103.07 and 4103.08",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4103",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S22",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code section 4113.37, Building permits",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4113_sec4113.37",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S23",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code section 4107.01, Building commission: organization; composition; term",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4107_sec4107.01",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S24",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code section 4127.09, Columbus revision to the Residential Code of Ohio, Part VIII Electrical",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4127_sec4127.09",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S25",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Columbus Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Columbus City Code chapter 4105, Powers, Duties, and Enforcement, with editor's note",
   "url": "http://columbus-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_title41_ch4105",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S26",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the Ohio State University Libraries copy)",
   "title": "Building code, Columbus, Ohio",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodecolu0000colu",
   "published": "1905"
  },
  {
   "id": "S27",
   "publisher": "Industrial Commission of Ohio (printed by The F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus; digitized by Google from the New York Public Library copy, at the Internet Archive)",
   "title": "Ohio State Building Code",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/ohiostatebuildi00ohiogoog",
   "published": "1914"
  },
  {
   "id": "S28",
   "publisher": "Ohio Department of Inspection of Workshops, Factories and Public Buildings (digitized by the Internet Archive from the Library of Congress copy)",
   "title": "The building code of the Department of Inspection of Workshops, Factories and Public Buildings of the State of Ohio relating to the construction of school buildings",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/buildingcodeofde00ohio",
   "published": "1908"
  },
  {
   "id": "S29",
   "publisher": "Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department",
   "title": "Building (Franklin County Building Department)",
   "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/Business-Development/Development-Planning/Building-Permits/Building",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S30",
   "publisher": "Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department",
   "title": "Building Permits",
   "url": "https://www.franklincountyohio.gov/Business-Development/Development-Planning/Building-Permits",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S31",
   "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Westerville, Ohio)",
   "title": "Westerville Codified Ordinances section 1301.01, Codes Adopted",
   "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/westerville/latest/westerville_oh/0-0-0-14856",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S32",
   "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Worthington, Ohio)",
   "title": "Worthington Codified Ordinances section 1305.01, Adoption of Residential Code of Ohio",
   "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/worthington/latest/worthington_oh/0-0-0-34790",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S33",
   "publisher": "City of Worthington, Ohio, Division of Building Regulation",
   "title": "Applicable Codes",
   "url": "https://www.worthington.org/140/Applicable-Codes",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S34",
   "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Bexley, Ohio)",
   "title": "Bexley Codified Ordinances, Part Fourteen, Building and Housing Code, and chapter 1410, Residential Building Code of Ohio",
   "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/bexley/latest/bexley_oh/0-0-0-42458",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S35",
   "publisher": "eLaws (Upper Arlington Code of Ordinances)",
   "title": "Upper Arlington Codified Ordinances section 1300.01, Composition of the Code",
   "url": "https://upperarlington-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_pt13_ch1300_sec1300.01",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S36",
   "publisher": "City of Upper Arlington, Ohio",
   "title": "Building",
   "url": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/237/Building",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S37",
   "publisher": "Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Laws (codes.ohio.gov), Legislative Service Commission",
   "title": "Section 3791.04 | Submission of plans for approval",
   "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3791.04",
   "published": "2012-09-10"
  },
  {
   "id": "S38",
   "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce",
   "title": "Commentary, RCO Chapter 1 - Administration",
   "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/documents/RCOChapter_1_Commentary.pdf",
   "published": "2019-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "S39",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio, Department of Building and Zoning Services",
   "title": "Records Research",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Building-Zoning-Services/Records-Research",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S40",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio, Department of Building and Zoning Services",
   "title": "Building and Zoning Services",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Building-Zoning-Services",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S41",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
   "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, September 27, 1986, pages 1524 and 1568: Ordinance No. 2229-86 as passed",
   "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/95039",
   "published": "1986-09-27"
  },
  {
   "id": "S42",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
   "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, February 28, 1998, page 446: Ordinance No. 480-98 as passed",
   "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/125231",
   "published": "1998-02-28"
  },
  {
   "id": "S43",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus City Bulletin), digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library",
   "title": "Columbus City Bulletin, June 26, 1999, page 1289 and following: Ordinance No. 1404-99 as passed",
   "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/129148",
   "published": "1999-06-26"
  },
  {
   "id": "S44",
   "publisher": "Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce (jurisdiction map dataset, hosted on the State of Ohio's ArcGIS portal)",
   "title": "BBS_Jurisdictions feature service, layer 0 (Jurisdictions), behind the Board's interactive jurisdiction map",
   "url": "https://maps.ohio.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/BBS_Jurisdictions/FeatureServer/0",
   "published": "2025-09-18"
  },
  {
   "id": "S45",
   "publisher": "American Legal Publishing (Codified Ordinances of the City of Bexley, Ohio)",
   "title": "Bexley Codified Ordinances section 1410.01, Adoption by reference",
   "url": "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/bexley/latest/bexley_oh/0-0-0-42506",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S46",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus, Ohio, Department of Buildings (printed ordinance, digitized by the Internet Archive from the University of Illinois copy)",
   "title": "Reinforced concrete code: an ordinance no. 27098, Department of Buildings, 1913",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/reinforcedconcre00colu",
   "published": "1913"
  }
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}