‘An Act To Modify the Municipal Mandate To Enforce the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code’
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Session - 127th Maine Legislature C "A", Filing Number S-161, Sponsored by
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LR 1037 Item 2 |
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Modify the Municipal Mandate To Enforce the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2011, c. 408, §4, is further amended to read:
Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§1-B, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 505, §1, is amended to read:
Sec. 3. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§1-C is enacted to read:
Sec. 4. 25 MRSA §2373, first ¶, as amended by PL 2011, c. 408, §6, is further amended to read:
The Except as provided in Title 10, section 9724, subsection 1-C, the code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. Beginning July 1, 2012 Except as provided in Title 10, section 9724, subsection 1-C, the code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has not adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. The code must be enforced through inspections that comply with the code through any of the following means:’
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This amendment is the majority report of the committee and strikes and replaces the bill. Beginning on November 1, 2015, it authorizes a municipality that has more than 4,000 but less than 10,000 residents to vote under its home rule authority to exempt the municipality from the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code enforcement requirements pursuant to the municipal voting requirements under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, chapter 121.