Article 11. Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code

17.11.1.     Adopting selected portions of Unified Building and Trade Code.

All amendments to the International Residential Code, National Electrical Code, and International Mechanical Code, as set forth in that Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, of November, 21, 2012, adopting The Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code, to be made effective January 1, 2013, are hereby adopted, unless otherwise noted within this Chapter, and all fee schedules included within the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code, unless otherwise set forth within the City’s adopted fee schedule, are hereby adopted and by reference incorporated herein and made a part of this Code as though set forth at length herein, and shall be referred to herein as the “amendments” to the above standardized codes adopted within this Chapter. Subsequent amendments to the Residential Code, Commercial Code, Electrical Code, Plumbing and Gas Fitting Code, and Mechanical Code within the Unified Building and Trade Code adopted by Resolution of the Board of County Commission, are hereby incorporated herein. For purposes of application within the City of Bel Aire, all references within the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code to the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department, or the MABCD, as a contact agency/agent, or enforcement agency/agent shall be understood to be referring to the Code Enforcement official designated by the City of Bel Aire.

17.11.2.     Availability of copies.

One copy of said standard code, along with the amendments set forth in that Resolution of the Sedgwick County Commission as described in 17.6.1 above, as currently incorporated into the Unified Building and Trade Code which is adopted through Article 11 of this Chapter, have been and are now filed in the office of the City Clerk, and the said code is adopted and incorporated as if fully set out herein at length as authorized in the manner provided by K.S.A. 12-3009, et seq.

17.11.3.     Effective date.

The above adopted code shall be phased in from the date of its adoption until July 1, 2016, to allow for conclusion of projects being completed in conformance with the previously adopted standardized code. New projects may be licensed and permitted using either the above described code or the formally applicable code, whichever is most appropriate to the project and the stage of the development of the project in the discretion of the Code Enforcement Officer. On and after July 1, 2016, no project shall be approved except in conformance with the above described code.