What options do local governments have, if they chose to administer and enforce the Uniform Construction Code?
• use its own employees retain one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies to act on its behalf enter into a contract with another municipality jointly administer the code with one or more other municipalities enter into an agreement with the Department of Labor and Industry for plan reviews, inspections and other aspects of code enforcement for non-residential structures. A municipality can utilize these options in a wide variety of ways, to best suit its needs. For example, it could choose to handle all residential code work through its own employees, and contract for all or part of non-residential plan approvals and inspections. Or, it could perform certain aspects of both residential and non-residential plan approvals and inspections, and contract for other aspects. Any opt-in municipality that expects that it will contract with the Department for commercial code enforcement services should be aware of the following. Act 45 does provide that opt-in municipalitie
