Jackson County Missouri - File #: 3170

• File #: 3170
• Version: 1
• Name: Building Code - Jackson County Code.
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/13/2001
• In control: Public Works Committee
• On agenda: 8/13/2001
• Final action: 8/20/2001
• Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 5400. and 5401. Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the building code, and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new section relating to the same subject, with an effective date.
• Sponsors: Victor E. Callahan
• Indexes: JACKSON COUNTY CODE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/20/2001	0	Public Works Committee
8/20/2001	1	County Legislature	amend	Pass
8/20/2001	1	County Legislature	Consent Agenda
8/20/2001	1	County Legislature	perfect as amended	Pass
8/20/2001	1	County Legislature	suspend the rules to consider final passage	Pass
8/20/2001	1	County Legislature	adopt	Pass
8/14/2001	0	County Legislature	Go To 1st Perfection	Pass
8/13/2001	0	County Legislature	assign to committee

Public Works Committee
Amendment
August 20, 2001

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 5400. and 5401. Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the building code, and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new section relating to the same subject, with an effective date.


Intro
ORDINANCE #3170, August 13, 2001

INTRODUCED BY Victor E. Callahan, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, since the 1992 adoption of the County's building code, found in chapter 54 of the Jackson County Code, several of the uniform or national codes adopted by reference as the County's code have been supplemented or updated; and,

WHEREAS, it is appropriate that the County's building code be updated to reference the most current editions of these uniform and national codes; and,

WHEREAS, the revision of the building code to this effect is in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Enacting Clause. Sections 5400. and 5401., Jackson County Code, 1984, are hereby repealed, and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as §5400., to read as follows:


5400. Building Code.
Certain documents, copies of which are on file and are open for inspection by the public in the offices of the director of public works and clerk of the county legislature, being marked and designated as:

Uniform Building Code, [1991] 1997 edition, published by the International Conference of Building Officials, [including the generic fire_resistive assemblies listed in the Fire Resistance Design Manual, Twelfth Edition, dated August, 1988, published by the Gypsum Association as referenced in Tables Nos. 43_A, 43_B, and 43_C of the specified Uniform Building Code, including Appendix Chapters as follows:

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