House of Representatives State of Utah


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                                February 10, 2012

Madam Speaker:

    The House Rules Committee recommends, with written request of the sponsor, that H.B. 262, Building Code Amendments (Rep. F. Cox), be amended as follows and further recommends it be assigned to the House Political Subdivisions Standing Committee:


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             12          .    updates the version of the National Electrical Code

  and the Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code       adopted by the state;


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             15      chapter;
{   and   }

    
  . prohibits the state and political subdivisions of the state from adopting any version of the International Green Construction Code; and      


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             22      Other Special Clauses:
             23          
{   None   }        This bill provides effective dates.

    This bill provides revisor instructions.  


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             59      Control, the Legislature adopts the
{   2006   }        2009       edition of the Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code,


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             63      this section.
    
  (3) The state and a county, city, town, or other political subdivision of the state may not adopt any version of the International Green Construction Code.      


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             91      controlling thermal expansion can be ensured as required in the IPC Section 607.3."
    
  Section 4. Effective date.

    (1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), this bill takes effect July 1, 2012.
    (2) Section 15A-3-203 and Subsection 15A-3-701(2) take effect January 1, 2013.
    Section 5. Revisor instructions.  

    
  Due to the delayed effective date of Subsection 15A-3-701 (2), the Legislature intends that the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, in preparing the Utah Code database for publication, modify Section 15A-3-701 to read as follows until January 1, 2013:      

     " 15A-3-701 .   General provision.
     The following [ is ] are adopted as [ an amendment ] amendments to the IECC to be applicable statewide [ , in ] :
     (1) in IECC, Section 303.1.3:
     (a) the following is added at the end of the second sentence before the period: "or, for a site-built fenestration product, shall be assigned the system U-factor stated in the manufacturer's documentation, if the manufacturer has produced documentation of the applicable system U-factor"; and
     (b) the following is added at the end of the fourth sentence before the period: "or, for a site-built fenestration product, shall be assigned the system SHGC stated in the manufacturer's documentation, if the manufacturer has produced documentation of the applicable system SHGC"; and
     (2) in IECC, Section 504.4, a new exception is added as follows: "Exception: Heat traps, other than the arrangement of piping and fittings, shall be prohibited unless a means of controlling thermal expansion can be ensured as required in the IPC Section 607.3." "


                    Respectfully,

                    Rep. Wayne A. Harper, Chair