Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4101:7 - Certification of Building Departments, Building Department Personnel, Local Boards of Building Appeals, and Fire Protection System Designers › Chapter 4101:7-2 - Building Departments › Section 4101:7-2-01 - Building department certification

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Municipalities, townships, and counties may seek certification
				by the board of building standards as described in division (E) of section
				 3781.10 
				of the Revised Code to exercise enforcement authority, to accept and approve
				construction documents, and to make inspections.
(A) Certification types. A political
			 subdivision may seek to enforce the rules of the board by requesting either a
			 certification as a building department or a sub-building department as required
			 in paragraph (A)(1) or (A)(2) of this rule. References in this rule to
			 "department" or "building department", unless specified, shall mean "certified
			 building department" or "certified sub-building department."
(1) Certification as a building department.
			 Municipalities, townships, and counties shall enforce the rules of the board in
			 conformity with the law and as described in paragraphs (A)(1)(a) and (A)(1)(b)
			 of this rule.
(a) Municipalities.
			 Municipalities, in submitting the application described in paragraph (C) of
			 this rule, must specify whether the department is to be certified to enforce
			 the rules of the board for plumbing and will employ a plumbing inspector,
			 certified as required in rule 4101:7-3-01 of  the Administrative Code. If a department is not to be certified for plumbing, the enforcement shall be done by the local board of health or the division of industrial compliance plumbing section in the department of commerce.
Municipalities, in submitting the application described in
				paragraph (C) of this rule, must also specify whether the department is to be
				certified to enforce medical gas piping system provisions and will employ a
				medical gas piping inspector, certified as required in paragraph (E)(12) of
				rule 4101:7-3-01 of  the Administrative Code. If the department is not to be certified to enforce medical gas piping system provisions, then the enforcement shall be done by the local board of health or the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce.
Municipalities may, at any time, make application to the board
				of building standards to be approved to have the building department
				certification modified or to include, or exclude, plumbing and medical gas
				piping system enforcement duties in accordance with paragraph (H) of this
				rule.
(b) Counties and
			 townships. Counties and townships, in submitting the application described in
			 paragraph (C) of this rule for certification of a building department, are not
			 certified to enforce plumbing provisions or employ plumbing inspectors required
			 in paragraph (B)(2) of this rule. As permitted in section
			  3703.01 
			 of the Revised Code, county building departments may enforce plumbing
			 provisions if the county board of health has entered into an agreement with the
			 board of county commissioners to provide plumbing code enforcement and employs
			 a plumbing inspector, certified as required in division (D) of section
			  3703.01 
			 of the Revised Code. The county shall specify on its application whether the
			 county department will enforce the rules of the board for plumbing and will
			 employ a properly certified plumbing inspector. If, after certification, a
			 county building department assumes plumbing code enforcement as required in
			 section
			  3703.01 
			 of the Revised Code, it shall notify the board.
Counties and townships, in submitting the application described
				in paragraph (C) of this rule, must also specify whether the jurisdiction
				desires the department to be certified to enforce medical gas piping system
				provisions and will employ a medical gas piping inspector, certified as
				required in paragraph (E)(12) of rule 4101:7-3-01 of  the Administrative Code. If the county or township chooses not have its department certified to enforce medical gas piping system provisions, then the enforcement shall be done by the local board of health or the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce.
Counties and townships may, at any time, make application to
				the board of building standards to be approved to have the building department
				certification modified or to include, or exclude, medical gas piping system
				enforcement duties in accordance with paragraph (H) of this rule.