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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 these regulations upon the permit applicant and any person owning or controlling any building or structure within the scope of this code and 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 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 or inaction on the part of the city related in any manner to the enforcement of this code by its officers, employees or agents.

Notwithstanding any language 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. (Ord. 1251-86 § 8, 1986.)