Article 4. Commercial Construction Code

17.4.1.     Adoption of the International Building Code, 2006 Edition, as the Commercial Building Code of the City of Bel Aire, 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 Building Code, 2006 Edition, as the Commercial Building Code, as published by the International Code Council, 5203 Leesburg Pike, Suite 708 Falls Church, Virginia, 22041, and such amendments as contained 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, (Res. No. 175-2012) to be made effective January 1, 2013, including all fee schedules unless otherwise set forth within the City’s adopted fee schedule, and such document is incorporated by reference herein. This International Building Code and all amendments as adopted herein shall be known as the Commercial Building Code of the City of Bel Aire, Kansas.

17.4.2.     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 17.4.1 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.

17.4.3.     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.