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The purpose of this title is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property, and general public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location and placement, repair and maintenance of all buildings and structures within the city and of certain equipment specifically regulated herein and to safeguard to a reasonable degree life and property from the hazards of fire and explosion arising from the storage, handling, and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, and from conditions hazardous to life or property in the use or occupancy of buildings or premises. Enactment and enforcement of this title is intended to only protect the general public welfare and not specific persons or property. Nothing in this title nor the International Codes adopted by reference herein shall be construed to impose any legal duty, directly or indirectly, upon the city or its officials and employees to protect individual persons or property in individual circumstances. (Ord. 2032, § 1 (Exh. A), 2017; Ord. 1619, § 2, 2004.)