Section 41-9-162
Applicability of building code.
(a) The code of minimum building standards promulgated and enforced by the Building Commission shall be applicable only to all state buildings and construction, schoolhouses, hotels and moving picture theatres in Alabama.
(b) The effect of the building code shall be limited, in the cases of state building and construction and public schoolhouses, to buildings and structures erected or acquired after the operative date thereof. As to private schoolhouses, hotels and moving picture theatres, the code shall apply to the place of conduct of each such business activity not employed or in the process of erection for that purpose prior to the effective date thereof.
(Acts 1945, No. 290, p. 480, §§2, 3.)