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Section 11: The 1997 Edition of the UFC is amended by the addition of the following section: It is expressly the purpose of this Code to provide for and promote the health, safety and welfare of the general public, and not to create or otherwise establish or designate any particular class or group of persons who will or should be especially protected or benefited by the terms of this Code. It is the specific intent of this Code to place the obligation of complying with its requirements upon the permit applicant and any person owning, operating or controlling any building or structure within the scope of this Code that no provision nor term used in this Code is intended to impose any duty whatsoever upon the City or any of its officers or employees for whom the implementation or enforcement of this Code shall be discretionary and not mandatory. Nothing contained in this Code is intended to be nor shall be construed to create or form the basis for any liability on the part of the City or its officer, employees or agents, for any injury or damage resulting from the failure of a building to comply with the provisions of this Code, or be reason or inconsequence of any inspector, notice, order, certificate,permission or approval authorized or issued or done in connection with the implementation or enforcement of this Code, or by reason of any action of the City related in any manner to the enforcement of this Code by its officers, employees or agents. Notwithstanding any language used in this Ordinance and/or the Codes enacted herein, it is not the intent of this Ordinance to create a duty and/or cause of action running to any individual or identifiable person but rather any duty is intended to run only to the general public. Section 12: The 1997 Edition of the UFC is amended by the addition of the following section: Violation Citation -Order Notwithstanding any language in this Code, in the event a time period is established in: (1) a violation citation issued by the Code Compliance Officer,the Fire Marshal or his designee, or(2) an order issued by the Violations Hearing Examiner, said time period shall supersede the time period provided by this Code. Section 13: The City of Everett hereby declares that should any section,paragraph, sentence or word of this Ordinance or of the UFC or UFCS hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the City of Everett that it would have passed all portions of this Ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. Section 14: SAVINGS. The enactments of this Ordinance shall not affect any case, proceeding, appeal or other matter currently pending in any court or in any way modify any right or liability, civil or criminal, which may be in existence on the effective date of this Ordinance. 6