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§23-29.1-3  Content, adoption, and administration of the rehabilitation building code for existing buildings and structures. –


Published: 2015

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TITLE 23

Health and Safety

CHAPTER 23-29.1

Rehabilitation Building And Fire Code For Existing Buildings And Structures

SECTION 23-29.1-3



   § 23-29.1-3  Content, adoption, and

administration of the rehabilitation building code for existing buildings and

structures. –

(a) Content. The rehabilitation building and fire code for existing

buildings and structures shall have a building code element and a fire safety

code element and shall make provisions for the repair, renovation, alteration,

reconstruction, and change of use of and additions to existing buildings and

structures. The code shall set forth standards for different types of uses; and

for mixed-use buildings and structures, each portion of the building or

structure shall be separately classified as to use. The standards shall

include, but not be limited to, standards for building; for load bearing and

structural elements; for plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems; for fire

resistant walls and for fire suppression, fire alarm, and fire detection

systems; for accessibility, including accessibility for persons with

disabilities, means of egress, elevators, escalators, stairways, doors, ramps,

fire alarms, floor surfaces, restrooms and corridors; for vents and ventilation

systems; and for historic buildings; provided however that such standards shall

not affect minimum standards for habitancy.



   (b) Committee on drafting. There shall be a sixteen

(16) member committee on drafting the rehabilitation building and fire code for

existing buildings and structures which shall have as its members the ten (10)

voting members of the joint committee, the state fire marshal, the state

building code commissioner, a representative of grow smart RI appointed by the

chairperson of grow smart RI, a representative of the Rhode Island builders

association appointed by the president of the Rhode Island builders

association, a representative of the governor's commission on disabilities,

appointed by the chairperson of the governor's commission on disabilities, and

an historical preservation architect appointed by the executive director of the

Rhode Island historical preservation and heritage commission. The executive

secretary of the joint committee shall serve as secretary of the committee on

drafting and be a nonvoting member of the committee. It shall be the duty of

the joint committee to develop a rehabilitation building and fire code for

existing buildings and structures, which shall have an element pertaining to

fire safety and an element pertaining to building standards, and to recommend

said rehabilitation building and fire code for consideration by the joint

committee. The committee on drafting shall terminate upon an affirmative vote

of the joint committee to recommend the rehabilitation building and fire code

for existing buildings and structures for adoption by the building code

standards committee and the fire safety code board of appeal and review.



   (c) Adoption. The building code element shall be

effective upon adoption by the building code standards committee pursuant to

§ 23-27.3-100.1.3 and the fire safety code element shall be effective upon

adoption by the fire safety code board of appeal and review pursuant to §

23-28.3-3. Public hearings required by chapter 35 of title 42 for the adoption,

amendment, or revision of the rehabilitation building and fire code for

existing buildings and structures and each of the elements thereof shall be

conducted by the joint committee.



   (d) Administration. Except as set forth in this

chapter, the building code element shall be administered as a building code in

accordance with the provisions of chapter 27.3 of this title, the fire safety

code element shall be administered as a fire safety code by the division of

fire safety in accordance with the provisions of chapter 28.2 of this title.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2000, ch. 185, § 6; P.L. 2000, ch. 290, § 6.)