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the rulebook that stops your landlord's cost-cutting from becoming your obituary.
means a legally enforced set of minimum standards for how buildings must be designed and constructed to keep occupants alive and safe.
from traces back to the code of hammurabi, which threatened to kill a builder if his house collapsed and killed the owner — modern codes swapped execution for permits, but the logic is identical.
chicago fire1871 blaze rewrote america's fire codes overnight
triangle factory1911 deaths forced fire-exit and sprinkler laws
not federalus codes are set state by state, locally adopted
constantly updatedmodel codes revise every three years, roughly