Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 10-4-2016
To: Mayor and City Council Members
From: Development Services Department
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Consideration, discussion, and possible adoption of Ordinance No. 3454, an ordinance amending the Broken Arrow Code of Ordinances Chapter 6, Buildings and Building Regulations, Article III.5 - International Residential Code (IRC), Section 6-36, Adopted; conflict with other regulations; Section 6-37, Amendments, specifically amending to become in compliance with the 2015 ICC International Residential Code, repealing all ordinances to the contrary
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Background:
The Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission, (OUBCC) chose not to adopt the 2012 International Code Council, (ICC) Residential Code as the states minimum code and elected to wait until the 2015 ICC Residential Code was published to do code updates. In February of 2015 the OUBCC Technical committees were formed to review each section of the ICC 2015 International Residential Code. The Chief Building Inspector was involved in these committee code reviews. The committee's recommendations were reviewed and approved by the OUBCC Board and the Board set out for adoption of the 2015 ICC International Residential Code with various modifications. The adoption of this code was approved by legislative action, signed by Governor Mary Fallin and will be effective state-wide on November 1, 2016. The requirements for residential sprinklers to be installed in one and two family dwellings was again taken out of the body of the code and placed in Appendix V and is not considered part of the code unless Appendix V is adopted. City staff recommends approval of the adoption of the 2015 ICC Residential Code (noted above) as adopted and amended by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission with various local amendments.
The Broken Arrow City Council, approved Ordnance 3366 adopting the 2015 International Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Fuel Gas Codes and the 2014 National Electric...
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