Texas Administrative Code › Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION › Part 4 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION › Chapter 70 - INDUSTRIALIZED HOUSING AND BUILDINGS › Section 70.101 - Amendments to Mandatory Building Code

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) The council shall consider and review all
				amendments to these codes which are approved and recommended by ICC, and if
				they are determined to be in the public interest, the amendments shall be
				effective 180 days following the date of the council's determination or at a
				later date as set by the council.
(b) Any amendment proposed by a local
building official,
and determined by the council following a
				public hearing to be essential to the health and safety of the public on a
				statewide basis, shall become effective 180 days following the date of the
				council's determination or at a later date as set by the council.
(c) The
2021 International Building
				Code
shall be amended as follows.
(1)
				Amend
Section 101 Scope and General Requirement
as follows.
(A) Amend
Section 101.1
				Title
to read as follows: "These regulations shall be known as the
				Building Code of the Texas Industrialized Housing and Buildings Program,
				hereinafter referred to as 'this code.'"
(B) Amend
Section 101.2
				Scope
by adding the following: "Where conflicts occur between the
				provisions of this code and the provisions of Texas Occupations Code, Chapter
				1202, Industrialized Housing and Buildings, or the provisions of 16 Texas
				Administrative Code, Chapter 70, rules governing the Texas Industrialized
				Housing and Buildings Program, the provisions of Texas Occupations Code,
				Chapter 1202 and 16 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 70 shall
				control."
(C) Amend
Section
				101.2.1 Appendices
by adding the following: "Appendices C, F, and K
				shall be considered part of this code."
(D) Amend
Section 101.4 Referenced
				codes
to read as follows: "The other codes listed in Sections 101.4.1
				through 101.4.9 and referenced elsewhere in this code shall be considered part
				of the requirements of this code to the prescribed extent of each such
				reference. Whenever amendments to the referenced codes have been adopted, each
				reference to said code shall be considered to reference the amendment as
				well."
(E) Amend
Section
				101.4.7 Existing buildings
to add the following sentence: "Moved
				industrialized buildings that bear approved certification decals or insignia,
				and that may also bear an alteration decal, in accordance with the requirements
				of Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 1202 and 16 Texas Administrative Code,
				Chapter 70, and that have not been altered or modified since the decal,
				insignia, or alteration decal was attached, shall be considered to be in
				compliance with the current mandatory building codes adopted by the Texas
				Industrialized Building Code Council."
(F) Add new
Section 101.4.8
				Electrical
to read as follows: "The provisions of Appendix K shall
				apply to the installation of electrical systems, including alterations,
				repairs, replacements, equipment, appliances, fixtures, fittings and
				appurtenances thereto. Any reference to NFPA 70 or the Electrical Code shall
				mean the Electrical Code as adopted."
(G) Add new
Section 101.4.9
				Accessibility
to read as follows: "Buildings and facilities shall be
				designed and constructed to be accessible in accordance with this code and the
Texas Accessibility Standards
(TAS). Wherever reference
				elsewhere in this code is made to ICC A117.1, the TAS of Texas Government Code,
				Chapter 469, Elimination of Architectural Barriers shall be substituted.
				Buildings subject to the requirements of the
Texas Accessibility
				Standards
are described in Administrative Rules of the Texas
				Department of Licensing and Regulation, 16 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter
				68."