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ORDINANCE NO. /6/(--f?' AN ORDINANCE providing for the adoption of the 1988 Edition of the Uniform Mechanical Code and repealing Ordinance No. 1252-86. THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: This ordinance shall be known as the "Everett Mechancial Code." Section 2: The Uniform Mechanical Code, together with Appendices A, B and C as published by the International Conference of Building Officials being particularly the 1988 Editions thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended are hereby adopted by reference and incorporated herein as fully as if set out at length herein. Section 3: Amendments Made In The Uniform Mechanical Code. A. Section 102 of the 1988 Edition of the Uniform Mechanical Code is hereby amended by deleting: Sec. 102. The purpose of this code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, installation, quality of materials, location, operation, and maintenance or use of heating, ventilating, cooling, refrigeration systems, incinerators and other miscellaneous heat-producing appliances within this jurisdiction. and inserting in its place: 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 these regulations to place the obligation of complying with these regulations upon the permit applicant and any person owning, operating or controlling any building or structure within its scope. 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 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 officers, employees or agents, for any injury or damage resulting from the failure of a building to comply with the provisions of this Code, or by reason or in consequence of any inspection, 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 Code, it is not the intent of this Code 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.