71-6405 State building code; compliance required; amendment by state agency.
71-6405. State buildingcode; compliance required; amendment by state agency.Allstate agencies, including all state constitutional offices, state administrativedepartments, and state boards and commissions, the University of Nebraska,and the Nebraska state colleges, shall comply with the state building code.No state agency may adopt, promulgate, or enforce any rule or regulation inconflict with the state building code unless otherwise specifically authorizedby statute to adopt or enforce a building or construction code other thanthe state building code. Nothing in the Building Construction Act shall authorizeany state agency to apply such act to manufactured homes or recreational vehiclesregulated by the Uniform Standard Code for Manufactured Homes and RecreationalVehicles or to modular housing units regulated by the Nebraska Uniform Standardsfor Modular Housing Units Act. A state agency may, by rule or regulation,amend the state building code by adopting any supplement, new edition, orappendix of the International Building Code (IBC), 2000 edition, InternationalResidential Code (IRC), 2000 edition, or the International Existing Building Code,2009 Edition, referred to in section 71-6403, except that allamendments shall be approved in advance by the Director of AdministrativeServices. Amendments to the state building code may also include variationsfrom the code which will reduce unnecessary costs of construction, increasesafety, durability, or efficiency, or address special local conditions withinthe state. SourceLaws 1987, LB 227, § 5; Laws 1993, LB 319, § 3; Laws 1996, LB 1304, § 5; Laws 2003, LB 643, § 2; Laws 2010, LB799, § 3.Effective Date: July 15, 2010 Cross ReferencesNebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act, see section 71-1555.Uniform Standard Code for Manufactured Homes and Recreational Vehicles, see section 71-4601.