Bill Text: MO HB1660 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows third and fourth classification counties to adopt building codes upon voter approval and exempts agricultural structures from building codes in those counties
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-27 - Voted Do Pass (H) [HB1660 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1660-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LAUER (Sponsor), HIGDON AND RIZZO (Co-sponsors).
5711H.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 64.170 and 64.205, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to county building codes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 64.170 and 64.205, RSMo, are repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 64.170, to read as follows:
64.170. 1. For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health and general welfare, to protect life and property and to prevent the construction of fire hazardous buildings, the county commission in all counties [of the first and second classification], as provided by law, is for this purpose empowered, subject to the provisions of subsections 2 and 3 of this section, to adopt by order or ordinance regulations to control the construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair of any building or structure and any electrical wiring or electrical installation, plumbing or drain laying therein, and provide for the issuance of building permits and adopt regulations licensing persons, firms or corporations other than federal, state or local governments, public utilities and their contractors engaged in the business of electrical wiring or installations and provide for the inspection thereof and establish a schedule of permit, license and inspection fees and appoint a building commission to prepare the regulations, as herein provided.
2. Any county which has not adopted a building code prior to August 28, 2001, pursuant to sections 64.170 to 64.200, shall not have the authority to adopt a building code pursuant to such sections unless the authority is approved by voters, subject to the provisions of subsection 3 of this section. The ballot of submission for authority pursuant to this subsection shall be in substantially the following form:
Shall ......................................... (insert name of county) have authority to create, adopt and impose a county building code?
□ YES □ NO
3. The proposal of the authority to adopt a building code shall be voted on only by voters in the area affected by the proposed code, such that a code affecting a county shall not be voted upon by citizens of any incorporated territory.
4. Except in counties of the first and second classification, no structure used solely for agricultural purposes in which the use is exclusively in connection with the production, harvesting, storage, drying, or raising of agricultural commodities, including the raising of livestock, shall be subject to any code adopted under this section.
[64.205. Sections 64.170 to 64.200 shall apply to all counties of the first and second class.]
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