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Definition of Building code
1. Noun. Set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings.
Definition of Building code
1. Noun. A mandatory set of rules on building design, construction, testing, inspection, and maintenance to protect public health, safety, and welfare. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Building Code
Literary usage of Building code
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"You recognize the building code as having the same force on your Department ...
And you draw no distinction between the enforcement of the building code and ..."
2. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"The imminent revision of New York's building code hastens important improvements.
... WHATEVER the ultimate result of the agitation anent building code ..."
3. State and County School Administration by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, Edward Charles Elliott (1922)
"The following sections from the state building Code of Ohio ... PART 1 ADMINISTRATION
An Act Establishing a building code, regulating the construction of, ..."
4. A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States by William Bennett Munro (1915)
"building code of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, as passed May 10, 1909, and
including all ... Elizabeth, NJ building code with amendments to August 15, 1908. ..."
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