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Dwelling codes provide minimum requirements to safeguard life, health and public welfare and property by regulating and controlling the design, construction and occupancy of one- and two-family dwellings not more than three stories.

• International residential code for one- and two-family dwellings. Falls Church, Va.: International Code Council, 2003- Mechanical, plumbing and electrical requirements are included with these construction and occupancy provisions. This replaces the "CABO one & two family dwelling code".
• CABO one & two family dwelling code / Council of American Building Officials. Homewood, Ill.: Building Officials and Code Administrators International, 1975-1995. Continued by: International one- and two- family dwelling code (1998) and International residential code for one-and two-family dwellings (2000).

• California electrical code. Los Angeles, CA : BNI Books..
• IICC electrical code. Administrative provisions/ International Code Council. Falls Church, VA. c2000-2006.
• National electrical code handbook/ Boston, Mass.: National Fire Protection Association, c1978-.

• California energy code / Whittier, Calif.: International Conference of Building Officials. Contains California code of regulations, Title 24, part 6.
• International energy conservation code.Falls Church, Va. : International Code Council, 1998- .Continues: Model energy code. Falls Church, Va.: CABO, c1983.
• California Energy Commission - California's primary energy policy and planning agency.
• U. S. Department of Energy - Building Energy Codes Program - resource on national model energy codes.

• California fire code / California Building Standards Commission. Whittier, Calif.: International Conference of Building Officials; Sacramento, Calif.: California Building Standards Commission, 1998 - Continues: California Uniform fire code. California fire code.
• California fire laws : with building code statutes / Charlottesville, VA : LexisNexis 2007.
• International fire code. Falls Church, Va.: International Code Council, 1999. Formed by the union of BOCA national fire prevention code and International Fire Code Institute. Uniform fire code and Standard fire prevention code.
• International wildland-urban interface code. Country Club Hills, Ill.: International Code Council, 2006-.
• Life safety code handbook : with the complete text of the 2009 edition of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code / edited by Ron Coté.. 11th ed. Quincy, Mass.: National Fire Protection Association, 2009.
• NFPA 909, code for the protection of cultural resources. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association.
• NFPA fire prevention code. 2000 ed. Quincy, Mass.: National Fire Protection Association, 2000.
• NFPA fire prevention code handbook /edited by Steven F. Sawyer, Martha H.Curtis. 2nd ed. Quincy, Mass.: National Fire Protection Association, 2000.
• NFPA - The National Fire Protection Association
• High-rise security and fire life safety / Geoff Craighead. 2nd ed. Amsterdam; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003. 3rd edition available online, UC only.

• California building code. Whittier, Calif.: International Conference of Building Officials. 

• California building standards code. Parts 1, 7, 8, 10, 12. Sacramento, Calif.: California Building Standards Commission Contains all of the additions, amendments and repeals affecting Title 24, part 1, 7, 8, 10, 12, California code of regulations.

• Uniform building code (UBC). Los Angeles etc. International Conference of Building Officials. 1973- Merged: BOCA national building code, Standard building code to form: International building codes..

• The BOCA national building code. Country Club Hills, Ill.: Building Officials & Code Administrators International, c1986. Basic Building Code (1950-1965) continued by BOCA basic building code (1975-1981) continued by BOCA basic/national building code (1984-1989).

• California state law and historic preservation: statutes, regulations and administrative policies regarding historical resources. Sacramento, CA: California Office of Historic Preservation, [1999?] Technical assistance series. California. Office of Historic Preservation. Online PDF
• Building code issues in historic preservation: selected case studies / prepared by the California Preservation Foundation in cooperation with the State Historical Building Safety Board. Oakland, Calif.: The Foundation, 2001.
• Guidelines for the rehabilitation of existing buildings. Whittier, CA: International Conference of Building Officials, 2000.
• Historic preservation for designers. Peter B. Dedek. New York : Fairchild Books. 2015.
• How to use the state historical building code: a one-day technical workshop / sponsored by the California Preservation. Oakland : The Foundation, [1994] .
• International existing building code / International Code Council. [Falls Church, VA] : International Code Council, 2003-.
• Rehabilitating older and historic buildings: law, taxation, strategies / Stephen L. Kass, Judith M. LaBelle, David A. Hansell. 2nd ed. New York: J. Wiley, c1993.
• Smart Codes in your Community: a guide to building Rehabilitation Codes - HUD User Publication, 8/2001. Overview of regulatory environment governing the use and reuse of existing buildings. (PDF file)
• State historical building code: State of California, Title 24, Building standards, part 8. Sacramento : State Historical Building Safety Board, 2022.

• California mechanical code / California Building Standards Commission. Whittier, Calif.: ICBO; Sacramento, Calif.: California Building Standards Commission, c1998-
• Code check HVAC : a field guide to heating and cooling/ Michael Casey, Redwood Kardon, and Douglas Hansen; illustrated by Paddy Morrissey. Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, 2005.
• Handbook to the Uniform mechanical code : an illustrative commentary. Whittier, Calif.: International Conference of Building Officials, c1995.
• International mechanical code.: International Code Council, 2000-
• Uniform mechanical code. Whittier, Calif.: ICBO; Los Angeles : IAPMO. 1976-2000.

• California plumbing code. Sacramento, Calif.: California Building Standards Commission, 1995-
• Code check plumbing : an illustrated guide to the plumbing codes/ Michael Casey, Douglas Hansen, and Redwood Kardon ; illustrations and layout by Paddy Morrissey. 3rd edition. Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, 2006.
• International fuel gas code / Arlington, Va. : American Gas Association : International Code Council., 1997-
• International plumbing code / Country Club Hills, IL: BOCA Intl Inc., 1995-
• International and uniform plumbing codes handbook / R. Dodge Woodson. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2000.
• Significant changes to the International plumbing code, International mechanical code, and International fuel gas code / Bob Konyndyk, Jay Woodward and Scott Stookey. Clifton Park, NJ : Delmar Cengage Learning : Washington, D.C. : International Code Council, c2009.
• Uniform plumbing code / International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Association.