An Act To Remove the Municipal Mandate To Enforce the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 1191
Committee Amendment CA_A_S161 (Senate)
Amends: 10 MRSA §9724, 25 MRSA §2373

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" ft" to S.P. 418, L.D. 1191, Bill, "An Act To 
Remove the Municipal Mandate To Enforce the Maine Uniform Building and Energy 
Code" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Modify the Municipal Mandate To Enforce the Maine Uniform Building 
and Energy Code' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2011, c. 408, §4, is further 
amended to read: 
1. Limitations on home rule authority. This chapter provides express limitations 
on municipal home rule authority. +he Except as provided in subsection 1-C, the Maine 
Uniform Building and Energy Code must be enforced in a municipality that has more 
than 4,000 residents and that has adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. 
Beginning July 1, 2012 Except as provided in subsection 1-C, the Maine Uniform 
Building and Energy Code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 
residents and that has not adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. The Maine 
Uniform Building and Energy Code must be enforced through inspections that comply 
with Title 25, section 2373. 
Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§1-B, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 505, §l, is 
amended to read: 
1-B. Residents. For the purposes of subsections 1 arui.1 I-A and 1-C, "residents" 
does not include persons held at a correctional facility, as defmed in Title 34-A, section 
1001, subsection 6, within the municipality. 
Sec. 3. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§l-C is enacted to read: 
1-C. Municipalities between 4,000 and 10,000 residents. Beginning November 1, 
2015, a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents but less than 10,000 residents 
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may vote under its home rule authority to exempt the municipality from the Maine 
Uniform Building and Energy Code enforcement requirements specified under subsection 
in the manner provided for in Title 30-A, chapter 121. 
Sec. 4. 25 MRSA §2373, first ~, as amended by PL 2011, c. 408, §6, is further 
amended to read: 
The Except as provided in Title 10, section 9724, subsection l-C, the code must be 
enforced in a mlU1icipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has adopted any 
building code by August 1, 2008. Beginning July 1, 2012 Except as provided in Title 10, 
section 9724, subsection 1-C, the code must be enforced in a municipality that has more 
than 4,000 residents and that has not adopted any building code by August 1,2008. The 
code must be enforced through illspections that comply with the code through any of the 
following means:' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the majority report of the committee and strikes and replaces the 
bill. Beginning on November 1, 2015, it authorizes a mlU1icipality that has more than 
4,000 but less than 10,000 residents to vote lU1der its home rule authority to exempt the 
mlU1icipality from the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code enforcement 
requirements pursuant to the municipal votillg requirements under the Maille Revised 
Statutes, Title 30-A, chapter 121. 
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