Bill Text: CT HB05107 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

---

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Revisions To The State Building Code Concerning Residential Solar Photovoltaic Installations.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-08 - Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations [HB05107 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB05107-Comm_Sub.html

---

General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 5107
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 5064
		*_____HB05107PS____031615____*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE CONCERNING RESIDENTIAL SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 29-252 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

(a) As used in this subsection, "geotechnical" means any geological condition, such as soil and subsurface soil condition, which may affect the structural characteristics of a building or structure. The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall, jointly, with the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services, adopt and administer a State Building Code based on a nationally recognized model building code for the purpose of regulating the design, construction and use of buildings or structures to be erected and the alteration of buildings or structures already erected and make such amendments thereto as they, from time to time, deem necessary or desirable. Such amendments shall be limited to administrative matters, geotechnical and weather-related portions of said code, amendments to said code necessitated by a provision of the general statutes and any other matter which, based on substantial evidence, necessitates an amendment to said code. The code shall be revised (1) not later than January 1, 2005, and thereafter as deemed necessary to incorporate any subsequent revisions to the code not later than eighteen months following the date of first publication of such subsequent revisions to the code, and (2) not later than January 1, 2016, to incorporate revisions to the National Electrical Code adopted by the National Fire Protection Association in 2014, and thereafter as deemed necessary to incorporate any subsequent revisions, but in no event later than one year following the date of first publication of any subsequent revisions to the National Electrical Code. The purpose of [said] the State Building Code shall also include, but not be limited to, promoting and ensuring that such buildings and structures are designed and constructed in such a manner as to conserve energy and, wherever practicable, facilitate the use of renewable energy resources, including provisions for electric circuits capable of supporting electric vehicle charging in any newly constructed residential garage in any code adopted after July 8, 2013. [Said] The State Building Code includes any code, rule or regulation incorporated therein by reference.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2015	29-252(a)

PS

Joint Favorable