File #: O-1-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reader
File created: 1/2/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/11/2024 Final action: 3/11/2024
Title: City Building Code Updates - For the purpose of adapting the City building codes to Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), Maryland statutes, and Maryland state building requirements and recommendations; integrating the model codes into City Code; modifying state and national recommendations to best fit the local needs of Annapolis; and generally dealing with City Code updates for building and construction.
Sponsors: Brooks Schandelmeier
Indexes: Economic Matters Committee
Attachments: 1. O-1-24 First Reader, 2. O-1-24 Legislative Summary, 3. O-1-24 Staff Report, 4. O-1-24 Fiscal Impact Note, 5. O-1-24 Signed (color), 6. O-1-24 Signed (b&w)
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City Building Code Updates - For the purpose of adapting the City building codes to Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), Maryland statutes, and Maryland state building requirements and recommendations; integrating the model codes into City Code; modifying state and national recommendations to best fit the local needs of Annapolis; and generally dealing with City Code updates for building and construction.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 1-24

Introduced by: Alderman Schandelmeier
Co-sponsored by:

Referred to:
Economic Matters Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning
City Building Code Updates
FOR the purpose of adapting the City building codes to Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), Maryland statutes, and Maryland state building requirements and recommendations; integrating the model codes into City Code; modifying state and national recommendations to best fit the local needs of Annapolis; and generally dealing with City Code updates for building and construction.
BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2023 Edition:
17.12.010
17.12.018
17.12.021
17.12.024
17.12.040
17.18.020
17.24.040
17.24.250
17.28.020
17.28.040
17.40.265

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Title 17 - BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 17.12 - Additional Building Codes
17.12.010 International Building Code adopted.
A. The International Building Code, 2018 2021 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, Inc., is adopted as the Building Code of the City of Annapolis with the following amendments:
1. Section 101.1 of the International Building Code is amended to insert "City of Annapolis" in the space indicated.
2. Sections 103.1, 103.2, 103.3 of the International Building Code adopted in Section 17.12.010 are deleted and the following is substituted:
Section 103...

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