House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda

House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014 Regular Session

Posted:	June 4, 2013 02:57 PM
From:	Representative Susan C. Helm
To:	All House members
Subject:	Exempting pre-engineered hangers from the Uniform Construction Code

Please find attached a copy of legislation I am introducing in the near future to exempt pre-engineered hangars at privately owned public-use airports from the Uniform Construction Code (UCC). I am introducing this legislation to address the concerns of some owners of these airports about what they believe to be the over-regulation by the UCC of simple pre-engineered structures used to store aircraft. There are 60 privately owned public-use airports in Pennsylvania. These airports are not able to accommodate large aircraft and are mostly small “mom and pop” operations. Many of these small airports are closing because they cannot be operated without a revenue loss; much of the income these airports derive is from aircraft owners that lease ground on which to install hangars. It has been brought to my attention that aircraft owners seeking to install hangars at some of these airports run into the bureaucracy and added costs of the UCC (architectural drawings, added building requirements such as concrete type, etc…), and subsequently give up trying to build a hangar. I believe that such bureaucracy is unnecessary when they are installing pre-engineered structures designed, and built in modular fashion at factories, and then installed on-site. My legislation will help these small airports survive by assisting them in growing their customer base.
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Introduced as HB1601