Article 3. Residential Construction Code
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17.3.1. Adoption of the International Residential Code, 2012 Edition, as the One And Two Family Dwelling code, with certain additions and deletions.
There is hereby adopted by reference by the City of Bel Aire, Kansas, for the purpose of establishing standards for the safety, health, and public welfare, the International Residential Code, for One and Two Family Dwellings, 2012 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, 5203 Leesburg Pike, Suite 708 Falls Church, Virginia, 22041, and such amendments as set forth in that Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, of May 20, 2015, (Res. No. 106-2015), effective July 1, 2015, including all fee schedules unless otherwise set forth within the City’s adopted fee schedule, and such Resolution is incorporated by reference herein. Any reference to the International Residential Code and all amendments, shall hereafter, including those amendments provided for within the Unified Building and Trade Code, as provided for below, shall be understood to reference the Residential Building Code of the City of Bel Aire, Kansas, as described herein.
17.3.2. 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 17.3.1 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.
17.3.3. 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.
Nothing as set forth herein shall modify the International Residential Code, 2000 Edition, with Appendices E, G, H and J, as previously adopted, and superseded by the adoption of the International Residential Code, for One and Two Family Dwellings, to make it applicable to the Commercial Construction Code of this City.