HB 1315 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 1315
AN ACT relative to the effective date of revisions to the state building code.
SPONSORS: Rep. Infantine, Hills 13
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill provides that rules to update or change the state building code shall not take effect until one year following the rules' adoption by the state building code review board.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2680
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the effective date of revisions to the state building code.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 State Building Code Review Board; Effective Date of Amendments to the State Building Code. Amend RSA 155-A:10, V to read as follows:
V. The board may adopt rules to update or change the state building code for the codes described in RSA 155-A:1, IV, to the extent the board deems that such updates or changes are necessary, provided that no rules to update or change the state building code shall take effect until 12 months following the date such rules are adopted by the board and provided further that any such updates or changes are ratified by the adoption of appropriate legislation within 2 years of their adoption. If such updates or changes are not ratified, then the rules shall expire, notwithstanding RSA 541-A:17, I, at the end of the 2-year period. With the approval of the commissioner of safety, the board shall be authorized, pursuant to RSA 541-A, to adopt rules relative to procedures of its operation and appeals to the board.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.