SB471: allowing local building codes to add requirements for installation and inspection of heating and ventilation systems.

SB 471 – AS INTRODUCED

2008 SESSION

08-2723

10/09

SENATE BILL 471

AN ACT allowing local building codes to add requirements for installation and inspection of heating and ventilation systems.

SPONSORS: Sen. Barnes, Dist 17

COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill allows municipalities to adopt local amendments to the state building code concerning the installation and inspection of heating and ventilation system duct and vent work.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

08-2723

10/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

AN ACT allowing local building codes to add requirements for installation and inspection of heating and ventilation systems.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Local Amendments to State Building Code. Amend RSA 674:51 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. The regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph I may include requirements for the installation and inspection of heating and ventilation system duct and vent work as a requirement for issuance of a certificate of occupancy of any building or structure that is erected or remodeled, or undergoes a change or expansion of use, subsequent to the effective date of such requirement.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.