TITLE 23

Health and Safety

CHAPTER 23-29.1

Rehabilitation Building And Fire Code For Existing Buildings And Structures

SECTION 23-29.1-2



   § 23-29.1-2  Joint Committee on the

rehabilitation building code for existing buildings and structures. –

(a) Creation and membership. There is created a joint committee on the

rehabilitation building and fire code for existing buildings and structures

consisting of eleven (11) members: five (5) of whom shall be the chairperson of

the building code standards committee established by § 23-27.3-100.1.3 and

four (4) members of the building code standards committee appointed by the

building code standards committee; five (5) of whom shall be the chairpersons

of the fire safety code board of appeal and review, established by §

23-28.3-2, and four (4) members of the fire safety code board of appeal and

review appointed by the fire safety code board of appeal and review, and one of

whom shall be the executive director of the fire safety code board of appeal

and review, who shall be an ex-officio, nonvoting member of the joint

committee, and shall act as the executive secretary of the joint committee.

From the voting members of the joint committee, the governor shall appoint one

member to serve as chairperson and one member to serve as vice-chairperson. The

terms of chairperson and vice-chairperson shall be for three (3) years, or

until their successors are appointed.



   (b) Powers and duties. The joint committee has the

power and duty to:



   (1) Approve, with any revisions it may deem necessary, the

rehabilitation building code for existing buildings and structures following an

affirmative vote by the committee on drafting and to recommend building code

element of the rehabilitation building code for adoption by the building code

standards committee and to recommend the fire safety code element of the

rehabilitation building code for adoption by the fire safety code board of

appeal and review;



   (2) Draft and develop such amendments and revisions to the

building code element and to the fire safety code element of the rehabilitation

building code for existing buildings and structures as may be necessary or

desirable to recommend of those amendments and revisions to the building code

standards committee and the fire safety code board of appeal and review, as

appropriate;



   (3) Serve as the appeal board to hear and decide requests for

variances from the rehabilitation building and fire code for existing buildings

and structures; and



   (4) Study and make recommendations with regard to

coordinated, consistent, efficient, and effective administration of fire safety

codes, building codes, and the rehabilitation building and fire code.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2000, ch. 185, § 6; P.L. 2000, ch. 290, § 6; P.L. 2005, ch.

151, § 7; P.L. 2005, ch. 155, § 7.)