Posted: | September 22, 2015 02:14 PM |
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From: | Representative Kate Harper |
To: | All House members |
Subject: | Updating Pennsylvania’s Uniform Construction Code (UCC) |
After several years of a statewide building code and an inability to deal with updates when new international building codes are issued, I am introducing legislation to address that issue of updating Pennsylvania’s Uniform Construction Code (UCC). The current process, in the words of the UCC Review and Advisory Council (RAC) itself, “if the RAC reviews and adopts code provisions in accordance with the current UCC, it would result in a construction code which is impossible to comply with or enforce.” Pennsylvania cannot go on without a functioning mechanism to update its building codes without harm to the safety, economy and environment of Pennsylvania. My bill will:
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Introduced as HB1645