" Home Is My Castle " 

Think again -- your PROPERTY, your HOME, your HEALTH, your EVERYDAY LIVING, and yes your CIVIL RIGHTS are slowly being taken over by ALL of the governments issuing the vast array of new laws, ordinances, resolutions, PERSONAL RIGHTS laws to restrict YOU to their modern form of SOCIALISM !    You will NO LONGER have any of your CIVIL RIGHTS to rely upon, and who knows maybe the next step --

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The 'home is my castle' attitude is a problem..."  --Source, Page 16 (Labeled as Disaster Mitigation, United Nations and ICC Conference)

 

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"Land ... cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable ... "

--The preamble of land policy of the United Nations was first officially articulated at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I), held in Vancouver, May 31 - June 11, 1976. Agenda Item 10 of the Conference Report sets forth the UN's official policy on land.

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UNESCO controls Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List Cultural US Sites:

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Local Governments Implement Agenda 21:

Former FEMA director James Lee Witt has partnered with the International Code Council as CEO and serves as Chairman of the International Code Foundation. What are these International Codes and how will their implementation affect each and every American?

The International Code Council, established in 1994, is based in the United States and is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing a single set of national model construction codes. The ICC is ahead of the curve as we move further into the Free Trade Area of the Americas.  With more than 250 well-qualified super social scientists at 16 offices throughout the United States and Latin America, the International Code Council and their International Building Codes, may just be another rapidly expanding globalist monopoly.  

The International Codes published by the International Code Council (ICC), include:

  • International Building Code®
  • ICC Electrical Code®—Administrative Provisions
  • International Energy Conservation Code®
  • International Existing Building Code®
  • International Fire Code®
  • International Fuel Gas Code®
  • International Mechanical Code®
  • ICC Performance Code®
  • International Plumbing Code®
  • International Private Sewage Disposal Code®
  • International Residential Code®
  • International Wildland-Urban Interface Code®, and
  • International Zoning Code®

These comprehensive ICC codes are created following the model code development process and are performance and prescriptive code requirements. The codes are subject to and capable of revision.  A new edition is promulgated every three years. Model codes encourage international consistency in application.

The 1998 edition of the International Property Maintenance Code, begun in 1996, supercedes earlier property maintenance codes; for brevity, we will consider only the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC), which governs the maintenance of existing buildings.

Ostensibly, the International Property Maintenance Code seeks to protect public health, safety and welfare without unnecessarily increasing construction costs, restricting the use of new materials, products or methods of construction, and without giving preferential treatment to particular types or classes of materials, products, or methods of construction.

Neither the ICC, nor any of those participating in the development of their codes accept any liability (accountability) resulting from compliance or non-compliance because “ICC does not have the power or authority to police or enforce compliance” with the contents of the code.  “Only the governmental body that enacts the code into law has such authority.”

As with all ICC code products, the International Property Maintenance Code is available by adoption by jurisdictions internationally in accordance with proceedings establishing the jurisdictions laws.  Sample adoption ordinances written with fill-in-the-blank simplicity are included in the code booklet.

The adoption Ordinance reveals the broad range of the code which embraces existing structures and premises; regulates and governs the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures; provides standards for supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions that are essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; for the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use;  for the demolition of such existing structures; and provides for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore; together with, the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of such 2006 International Property Maintenance Code.

The ordinance is in full force and effect from and after the date of its final passage and adoption.  States, counties, municipalities and other forms of governance may adopt any or all of the ICC products in like manner, and many have already done so.

 

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THE INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE (IPMC)

THE IMPC AND THE UNITED NATIONS: ABOLITION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

INTERNATIONAL CODES ADOPTED BY STATE

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UNESCO revealed by William F. Jasper in The New American magazine: "... But government schools must stamp out love of country and the family must be viewed as the enemy: 'As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism.'"

 

 

 

 

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READING CODES OFFICE: IMPLEMENTING UNITED NATIONS SPONSORED CODES ORDINANCES OVER YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY...WORKING THROUGH THE ICC AND IPMC

     The United Nations, working through non-governmental organizations (NGO's), develops international code standards to diminish the rights of property owners.  They pretext the issue as crisis management, safety, and environment protection.  The Code officers of the City of Reading have no clue that they are actually part of a global plan to "revise property rights" and bring about a "communal sense" of ownership over your private property.  As far as they are concerned, they are just doing their job and following orders.  The United Nations, through UNESCO, controls the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall.  Your property is next through the adoption of "international codes" on a local level.  Welcome to the concept of "communal stakeholders" over your property.  The Codes Office is so wrapped up in their own politics and agenda, they are blind to whose program they are really pushing--that of the globalization agenda to undermine property rights everywhere within the United States.

     As Codes Officers hide behind the mantras of "I am just doing my job" and "give up your rights for public safety", the globalist agenda hits home to the City of Reading and Berks County.  The last laugh is that many Codes Officers also own private property.  As they dilute the property rights of City residents, they indirectly impact their own property rights and that of their children.  How's that for following orders and doing your job?

     The UN's purpose is to reduce your property rights through international entanglements and to make a standard for asset confiscation.  Part of the program is called AGENDA 21.

"...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-- involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable."

  -- Maurice Strong, Secretary General, UN Conference on Environment and Development, 1992. (Also known as the Rio Earth Summit, where Agenda 21 was unveiled.)

"7.28 The objective is to provide for the land requirements of human settlement development through environmentally sound physical planning and land use so as to ensure access to land to all households and, where appropriate, the encouragement of communally and collectively owned and managed land."

Chapter 7, Agenda 21: PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT

INTERNATIONAL CODES COUNCIL (ICC) & THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) PERSPECTIVE,  Source, Page 16

"The tools (Codes) and mechanisms (technology and code administration and enforcement) are in place to implement cement to implement disaster mitigation code provisions for the existing building stock.  Factors which makes it difficult to implement: disaster mitigation code provisions for the existing building stock. Factors which make it difficult to implement:

  • My 'home is my castle" attitude by the homeowner
  • Political pressures placed upon the city councils and mayors, particularly when their re-election is threatened.
  • Legal concerns

"Now, they have all united and become ICC and they have a staff, you know, that interpret the code in case and during company or a contractor or anybody else have some problem with a section of the code and, you know, I have seen many people that I have worked with they go directly to ICC for those interpretation." 

--Jatinder Khokhar, Chief Building Inspector for the District of Columbia.  Source, pp. 50-51, Building Code of the District of Columbia, Building Code Advisory Committee, 07.21.2004.

Jatinder Khokhar is now the Director of the Reading Codes Office.

THE INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE (IPMC)

CITY OF READING FAQ LISTED ON WEBSITE HERE:

UNITED NATIONS and ICC views "My home is my castle" as a problematic attitude by homeowners. Don't believe it? (Page 16)

LOOK AT THE UN'S PRESENTATION, page 16

Reading's use of the 2003 International Building Code Page 5-29 International Building Code (IBC) is a model building code developed by the International Code Council (ICC). It has been adopted throughout most of the United States.
Reading's use of the 2003 International Fire Code Page 5-49 International Fire Code
Reading's use of the 2003 International Residential Code Page 5-96, 5-102.6 International Residential Code

 

Reading's use of the International Existing Building Code. , Page 5-29, §5-121, Also Table of Contents International Existing Building Code

 

Reading's use of the International Property Maintenance Code Page 5-95

International Property Maintenance Code
2003 International Plumbing Code, 5-31, 5-102.10, 5-102.28, 5-102.29, 5-102.30

2003 International Mechanical Code, 5-91, 5-93, 5-102.10

2002 National Electric code, 5-71

1998 ICC/ANSI a117.1/Accessibility Code

All referenced standards applicable to the above International Building Code.

International Urban Wildland Interface Code

International Urban Wildland Interface Code

International Zoning Code

 

Standard for building construction in one issue; however, this international code delves into the actual enforcement of codes.  This means that their intent is to alter the legal standards of the jurisdiction under the pretext of "safety and security."  Where have we heard this before?
CITY OF READING CODE

Section 11-06 Penalty:

...Each day that compliance with the provisions of this Part has not been completed shall be deemed to be an entirely new and separate offense.

INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE

106.4 Violation penalties. Any person who shall violate a provision  of this code, or fail to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements thereof, shall be prosecuted within the limits provided by state or local laws. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense.

PM 106.5 Abatement of Violation. In addition to the imposition of the penalties herein prescribed, the Court with appropriate jurisdiction shall order correction and/or abatement of the violation within an appropriate period of time dependant upon the nature of the violation. If the violation is not corrected or abated in accord with the court's order, the appropriate legal authority shall institute the necessary legal proceedings including, but not limited to, a contempt proceeding or action in mandamus in the appropriate jurisdiction, to obtain compliance with the court order requiring correction and/or abatement of the violation. Performance of the above nor the imposition of penalties shall not preclude the legal officer of the jurisdiction from electing to institute appropriate action as an alternative to a contempt proceeding or action in mandamus to restrain, correct or abate a violation, or to prevent illegal occupancy of a building, structure or premises, or to stop an illegal act, conduct, business or utilization of the building, structure or premises.

INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE


106.5 Abatement of violation. The imposition of the penalties herein prescribed shall not preclude the legal officer of the jurisdiction from instituting appropriate action to restrain, correct or abate a violation, or to prevent illegal occupancy of a building, structure or premises, or to stop an illegal act, conduct, business or utilization of the building, structure or premises.

PM 107.5 Transfer of Ownership. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dwelling unit or structure who has received a compliance order or upon whom a notice of violation has been served to sell, transfer, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of such dwelling unit or structure to another until the provisions of the compliance order or notice of violation have been complied with, or until such owner shall first furnish the grantee, transferee, mortgagee or lessee a true copy of any compliance order or notice of violation issued by the Code Official and shall furnish to the Code Official a signed and notarized statement from the grantee, transferee, mortgagee or lessee, acknowledging the receipt of such compliance order or notice of violation and fully accepting the responsibility without condition for making the corrections or repairs required by such compliance order or  notice of violation.

 
107.5 Transfer of ownership. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dwelling unit or structure who has received a compliance order or upon whom a notice of violation has been served to sell, transfer, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of
such dwelling unit or structure to another until the provisions of the compliance order or notice of violation have been complied with, or until such owner shall first furnish the grantee, transferee, mortgagee or lessee a true copy of any compliance order or notice of violation issued by the code official and shall furnish to the code official a signed and notarized statement from the grantee, transferee, mortgagee or lessee, acknowledging the receipt of such compliance order or notice of violation and fully accepting the responsibility without condition for making the corrections or repairs required by such compliance order or notice of violation.
 

PLEASE NOTE:  THE INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE is setting the standard for all codes departments for asset confiscation by finding violations.  The property owner is then prevented from selling the property until all issues are resolved to the satisfaction of the inspector.


VIEW ON PROPERTY RIGHTS: NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE

THOMAS JEFFERSON, FIFTH STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 1806 UNITED NATIONS
... exert my best endeavors to administer faithfully the executive department, and will zealously cooperate with you in every measure which may tend to secure the liberty, property and personal safety of our fellow citizens. ... The land policy of the United Nations was first officially articulated at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I), held in Vancouver, May 31 - June 11, 1976. Agenda Item 10 of the Conference Report sets forth the UN's official policy on land. The Preamble states:

"Land ... cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable ... "

 

 

Source

REPORT OF HABITAT:

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

Vancouver, 31 May - 11 June 1976

Part One

Decisions of the Conference

Chapter I - Declaration of Principles

(b) Past patterns of ownership rights should be transformed to match the changing needs of society and be collectively beneficial.

New equitable distribution (b) Human settlements policies should aim to improve the condition of human settlements paticularly by promoting a more equitable distribution of the benefits of development among regions; and by making such benefits and public services

Control of land use changes (b) Change in the use of land, especially from agricultural to urban, should be subject to public control and regulation.

Recapturing plus value (b) The community must be subject to appropriate recapture by public bodies (the community), unless the situation calls for other additional measures such as new patterns of ownership, the general acquisition of land by public bodies.

 

Article 29 (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

--United Nations, Declaration of Human Rights, Adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.

Please note:  Your declared "human rights" cannot be exercised to question, criticize, challenge or contest the United Nations.  The U.N. focuses on peace, not liberty.   With the UN, your right to expression and free speech is exercised until it runs into the purposes of the UN itself.  Do you think that property rights are any safer in the hands of the United Nations?

  "To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification."

--Brock Chisholm, while director of UN World Health Organization

  11TH GOAL OF COMMUNISM

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

Source:

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35, January 10, 1963, Current Communist Goals, EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, January 10, 1963

 

How the United States is Implementing Agenda 21:

In Section 322 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act), 42 USC 5165, authority to create natural hazard mitigation plans exists.

In the past, federal legislation has provided funding for disaster relief, recovery, and some hazard mitigation planning.  The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000) is the latest legislation to improve this planning process and was put into motion on October 10, 2000, when the President signed the Act (Public Law 106-390).  The new legislation emphasizes planning for disasters before they occur.  The Act establishes a pre-disaster hazard mitigation program and new requirements for the national post-disaster Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

Under the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has produced several volumes of text that facilitates, and simplifies the process of promoting and implementing Sustainable Development through Hazard Mitigation Planning.

Each state has its Emergency Management Agency that receives its directives from FEMA. Most, if not all, states have established regional councils (soviets—regionalism) that exist as an extra-constitutional, quasi-public, quasi-governmental layer of governance.  Above county government and seemingly below state government, these regional councils are the pipelines through which the international community, and the federal government exercise their will over local governments.  Programmes of action and grants-in-aid flow through these regional non-profits.  They may be likened to drug pushers or pimps in the global “casino”, the “city of crime.”  We the people, and the governments instituted among men, have become hooked on OPM that is, “Other People’s Money.”

We have forsaken our founder’s advice, “A people willing to sacrifice their Liberty for security deserve neither security nor Liberty.”  Socialism demands that it be so.

Even a schoolboy knows that man, even a group of sincerely dedicated wealthy men, is powerless against the mighty energy of creation. “[T]o reduce through concerted international action, especially in developing countries, the loss of life, property damage and social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, grasshopper and locust infestations, drought and desertification and other calamities of natural origin”, is at best a humanitarian and altruistic pipe dream.  This is the stuff of the snake oil salesman, the shrill bark of the carney, the studied deception of change agents and propagandists.

The Department of Homeland Security, like Civil Defense before it, has as its primary objective: the continuation of government. Ensuring the continuity of government, and the preservation and protection of records and critical facilities, therefore, is at the apex of the mitigation plan.  Immediately below the preservation of government is the preservation of business and banking interests.

Stripped of its bluster, obfuscatory demographics and pseudo-science, the hazard mitigation plan may be reduced to one element: Floodplain Ordinance.  People have been either causing floods for irrigation and other purposes, or rebuilding after floods have occurred, from the beginning of recorded time.  FEMA understands and can respond to flooding.

FEMA is prepared to use the property owner’s fear of loss due to flooding, as the vehicle to relocate development out of the 100-year floodplains, which defined is any land area that has a one percent or greater chance on any day to be inundated, and other hazardous or sensitive environments.  The concept is known as “floodplain buyout”, but could also be labeled “Fear Motivation.”

FEMA publications state, “citizens are ultimately responsible for their own safety and for protecting their assets from damage by preparing for potential disasters that could occur within their community.”
 

FEMA says that, “a sustainable community is a disaster-resistant community.”  This is where Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, flood plain buyouts, relocation of human settlement development, and the International Code Council come to the fore.  Before Agenda 21, we knew much of this as Urban Renewal, but whatsoever cannot be bought out, demolished, relocated or retrofitted will soon have to be built to resist whatever the Almighty can cast upon it.

How Local Governments Implement Agenda 21:

Former FEMA director James Lee Witt has partnered with the International Code Council as CEO and serves as Chairman of the International Code Foundation. What are these International Codes and how will their implementation affect each and every American?

The International Code Council, established in 1994, is based in the United States and is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing a single set of national model construction codes. The ICC is ahead of the curve as we move further into the Free Trade Area of the Americas.  With more than 250 well-qualified super social scientists at 16 offices throughout the United States and Latin America, the International Code Council and their International Building Codes, may just be another rapidly expanding globalist monopoly.  

The International Codes published by the International Code Council (ICC), include:

  • International Building Code®
  • ICC Electrical Code®—Administrative Provisions
  • International Energy Conservation Code®
  • International Existing Building Code®
  • International Fire Code®
  • International Fuel Gas Code®
  • International Mechanical Code®
  • ICC Performance Code®
  • International Plumbing Code®
  • International Private Sewage Disposal Code®
  • International Residential Code®
  • International Wildland-Urban Interface Code®, and
  • International Zoning Code®

These comprehensive ICC codes are created following the model code development process and are performance and prescriptive code requirements. The codes are subject to and capable of revision.  A new edition is promulgated every three years. Model codes encourage international consistency in application.

The 1998 edition of the International Property Maintenance Code, begun in 1996, supercedes earlier property maintenance codes; for brevity, we will consider only the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC), which governs the maintenance of existing buildings.

Ostensibly, the International Property Maintenance Code seeks to protect public health, safety and welfare without unnecessarily increasing construction costs, restricting the use of new materials, products or methods of construction, and without giving preferential treatment to particular types or classes of materials, products, or methods of construction.

Neither the ICC, nor any of those participating in the development of their codes accept any liability (accountability) resulting from compliance or non-compliance because “ICC does not have the power or authority to police or enforce compliance” with the contents of the code.  “Only the governmental body that enacts the code into law has such authority.”

As with all ICC code products, the International Property Maintenance Code is available by adoption by jurisdictions internationally in accordance with proceedings establishing the jurisdictions laws.  Sample adoption ordinances written with fill-in-the-blank simplicity are included in the code booklet.

The adoption Ordinance reveals the broad range of the code which embraces existing structures and premises; regulates and governs the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures; provides standards for supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions that are essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; for the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use;  for the demolition of such existing structures; and provides for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore; together with, the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of such 2006 International Property Maintenance Code.

The ordinance is in full force and effect from and after the date of its final passage and adoption.  States, counties, municipalities and other forms of governance may adopt any or all of the ICC products in like manner, and many have already done so.

We will now examine several individual sections within the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code:

SECTION 101 GENERAL

In Section 101.2 Scope, the code shall “apply to all residential and nonresidential structures and all existing premises and constitute minimum requirements and standards for premises, structures, equipment and facilities for light, ventilation, space, heating, sanitation, protection from the elements, life safety, safety from fire and other hazards, and for safe and sanitary maintenance; the responsibility of owners, operators and occupants; the occupancy of existing structures and premises, and for administration, enforcement and penalties.”

Section 101.3 Intent, states that “existing structures and premises that do not comply with these provisions shall be altered or repaired to provide a minimum level of health and safety as required within.”

SECTION 102 APPLICABILITY

The universe of command and control expands in Section 102.1 General, where “the code shall apply to all matters affecting or relating to structures and premises,” as set forth in Section 101.  102.1 continues by stating that where “different sections of the code specify different requirements, the most restrictive shall apply.”

Section 102.2 Maintenance declares that the owner or the owner’s designated agent shall be responsible for the maintenance of buildings, structures and premises.

“None are so hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

One might add that anyone who actually believes that he owns real property is under a strong delusion, as our further study of the IPMC will demonstrate.

Section 102.8 Requirements not covered by code, states, “Requirements necessary for the strength, stability or proper operation of an existing fixture, structure or equipment, or for the public safety, health and general welfare, not specifically covered by this code shall be determined by the code official.”

SECTION 103 DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MAINTENANCE INSPECTION 

Government thrives upon bureaucracy.  Section 103.1 General creates upon adoption “the department of property maintenance inspection” and the appointed “executive official in charge thereof shall be known as the code official.”  “The code official shall not be removed from office except for cause” (103.2), and “shall have the authority to appoint a deputy code official, other related technical officers, inspectors and other employees.”

Section 103.4 Liability provides immunity from personal liability for all charged with the enforcement of the code.  The jurisdiction (adopting body) shall defend the enforcers against all claims.


SECTION 104 DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE CODE OFFICIAL 

Section 104.1 General “The code official shall enforce the provisions of this code.”  The code is made law; the code official is the law enforcement officer.  As with Conservation Department “Agents,” and Forest Service “Rangers,” who were initially unarmed and believed to be friendly—but are now armed, generally feared, or considered likely to be hostile—may one expect that code enforcement “deputies” shall one day holster a sidearm.

Recall that in many cities the Department of Public Safety is its police, and often, fire departments.  Section 104.2 Rule-making authority, grants the code official “authority as necessary in the interest of public health, safety and general welfare,” this is police, or executive power.  104.2 continues: “to adopt and promulgate rules and procedures,” this is legislative power.  And 104.2 continues: “to interpret and implement the provisions of this code; to secure the intent thereof,” this is judicial power.

Sections 104.3–104.7.  The code official shall make all of the required inspections, or shall accept inspections made by approved agencies or individuals, and keep written reports. The code official is authorized to enter structures or premises at reasonable times to inspect subject to constitutional restrictions on unreasonable searches and seizures, if any yet exist.  The code official shall carry proper identification (badge and a gun?).  And the code official shall issue all necessary notices or orders to ensure compliance with the code (ticket book?).

With the powers granted him, the opportunity and likelihood of arbitrary and capricious enforcement of the code is without question.  The potential for graft, corruption, bribery, and abuse of power inherent within a system without adequately defined oversight, checks and balances, or limitations is reason alone to reject the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code at first glance.

  • The code official may order the owner of any premises upon which is located any structure that is so old, dilapidated or has become so out of repair as to be dangerous, unsafe, insanitary or otherwise unfit for human habitation or occupancy, and such that it is unreasonable to repair the structure, to demolish and remove such structure (110.1).
  • All exterior property and premises shall be maintained in a clean, safe and sanitary condition (302.1).
  • All premises and exterior property shall be maintained free from weeds or plant growth in excess of (jurisdiction inserts height in inches).  All noxious weeds shall be prohibited (302.4).
  • No inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicle shall be parked, kept or stored on any premises, and no vehicle shall at any time be in a state of major disassembly, disrepair, or in the process of being stripped or dismantled.  Painting of vehicles is prohibited unless conducted in an approved spray booth (302.8).
  • Peeling, flaking and chipped paint shall be eliminated and surfaces repainted.
  • Roof drains, gutters and downspouts shall be maintained in good repair and free from obstructions (304.7).
  • All glazing materials (window glass) shall be maintained free from cracks and holes (304.13.1).
  • All exterior property and premises, and the interior of every structure, shall be free from any accumulation of rubbish or garbage.

Rubbish.  Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, excepting garbage; the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust, and other similar materials.

Garbage.  The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

-Definitions Chapter 2—Section 202

The above citations from the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code should be adequate to alert people and governments to the intentioned assault on private property ownership that is the heart of ICC’s Frankenstein creation.  We must recall that the International Property Maintenance Code is but “A Member of the International Code Family.”

The intention of this code package may be to so regulate, restrict, condition and invade individual self-determination, that the abolition of private property will be soon realized. Americans will retain all the expense, toil and responsibility of private property ownership without their customary and traditional right to and benefit from individual initiative that our forefathers enjoyed.

The surest pathway available to governments implementing the United Nations Agenda 21: Sustainable Development programme for action in their communities is via the Multi-Jurisdictional All-Hazard Mitigation Plan.  And the surest way for We the People to prevent the destruction of our unalienable right to Life, Liberty and Property is to become Vocal Local and say No! to Mitigation Planning, No! to Comprehensive Planning and Zoning, and again, No! to the International Code Council and their comprehensive model codes!

As globalism transitions from global to local (localism) we the people must be ever vigilant, well informed, and prepared to meet the globalists at the grassroots level, then become Vocal Local!

Are there any questions?

 

 

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