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The government - that supplies that building permit - does also literally send an inspector to my property to enforce the code, yes.

>>germin+(OP)
And the same government makes sure that the code, in addition to including things that are actually necessary for your safety, also includes a lot of other things that aren't, but that are beneficial for the friends and relatives of government officials who run construction companies and don't want to have to innovate. As Robert Heinlein once said, "We have never seen a modern house."