§ 102.3. RULES.

(a)

The Director of the Bureau of Buildings shall promulgate rules as prescribed in this Code and consistent therewith. It being the intent of this requirement that the standards of federal and state bureaus, national technical organizations or fire underwriters, as the same may be amended from time to time, shall serve as a guide in establishing the minimum rules of practice under this Code.

(b)

For the purpose of insuring public safety, materials, equipment, appliances, or systems intended for the use in the City of Atlanta for which conditions of use are not provided for in this code, the Director or duly authorized representatives shall make or cause to be made investigations, or may accept duly authenticated reports from recognized sources, from which rules will be set forth by the Director.

(c)

No rule of the Director of the Bureau of Buildings shall become effective until four weeks after notice of intention to enforce it shall have been given through the publication in a newspaper in general circulation in the City of Atlanta and until a public hearing on the same shall have been held, provided that said public hearing shall not be necessary unless a request shall have been made for such hearing during the said period of publication, by notice to the Director of the Bureau of Buildings. Such rule must be drawn in its proposed form and open to public inspection at the time the notice to enforce is published.