Sec. 29-251. (Formerly Sec. 19-395f). Codes and Standards Committee; duties; membership.
Sec. 29-251. (Formerly Sec. 19-395f). Codes and Standards Committee; duties; membership. There shall be within the Department of Public Safety a Codes and
Standards Committee whose duty it shall be to work with the State Building Inspector
in the enforcement of part Ia and the State Fire Marshal in the enforcement of part II of
this chapter as set forth herein. The committee shall be composed of seventeen members,
residents of the state, appointed by the Commissioner of Public Safety as follows: Two
members shall be architects licensed in the state of Connecticut; three shall be professional engineers licensed in the state of Connecticut, two of whom shall practice either
structural, mechanical or electrical engineering but in no event shall both of such members represent the same specialty and one of whom shall be a practicing fire protection
engineer or mechanical engineer with extensive experience in fire protection; two shall
be builders or superintendents of construction, one of whom shall have expertise in
residential construction and one of whom shall have expertise in nonresidential construction; one shall be a public health official; two shall be building officials; two shall be
local fire marshals; one shall be a Connecticut member of a national building trades
labor organization; and four shall be public members, one of whom shall have expertise
in matters relating to accessibility and use of facilities by the physically disabled and
who shall be selected from a list of names submitted by the Office of Protection and
Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities. Each member, other than the public members,
shall have had not less than ten years' practical experience in his profession or business.
The committee shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54
governing the procedure of the committee. Members who fail to attend three consecutive
meetings or fifty per cent of all meetings during a calendar year shall be deemed to have
resigned. It shall have power, within the limits of appropriations provided therefor, to
employ such assistants as may be necessary to conduct its business.
(1969, P.A. 443, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 496, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 17, 136; P.A. 79-560, S. 6, 39; P.A. 80-483, S. 81,
186; P.A. 82-432, S. 5, 19; P.A. 87-51; 87-108; P.A. 88-137; P.A. 89-144, S. 12; P.A. 97-308, S. 4; June Sp. Sess. P.A.
98-1, S. 58, 121.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department and commissioner of public works with department and commissioner of
public safety, deleted provision re appointment for three-year terms, reduced architect, engineer and builder membership
by one representative in each category and held these memberships for public members and deleted provision re committee's
election of chairman, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 replaced department and commissioner of public works with
department and commissioner of administrative services for period between June 6, 1978 and January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-560 cleared confusion re power to appoint members by deleting reference to appointments by state fire marshal and specified
that engineer members practice one of listed specialties but prohibited both from practicing same specialty; P.A. 80-483
made technical changes; P.A. 82-432 changed committee name from "state building code standards" to "codes and standards" committee, increased membership from 9 to 14, adding one professional engineer, one building official, one public
member and two local fire marshals, required that one engineer member be a practicing fire protection engineer and
specified when failure to attend meeting is deemed to be resignation; Sec. 19-395f transferred to Sec. 29-251 in 1983; P.A.
87-51 required the committee to work with the state fire marshal in enforcing part II of this chapter and permitted the
appointment of a mechanical engineer with experience in fire protection; P.A. 87-108 increased membership of codes and
standards committee from 14 to 15, adding one public member who shall have expertise in handicapped accessibility
matters; P.A. 88-137 increased membership from 15 to 17, adding another licensed architect and a laborer in building
construction; P.A. 89-144 substituted the office of protection and advocacy for persons with disabilities for the office of
protection and advocacy for handicapped and developmentally disabled persons; P.A. 97-308 increased membership of
builders or superintendents by one and specified their expertise in type of construction, substituted member of a national
building trades labor organization for a laborer and reduced public members from five to four; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1
specified that regulations re committee procedures shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54,
effective June 24, 1998.
See title 2c re termination under "Sunset Law".
See Sec. 4-9a for definition of "public member".
Cited. 18 CA 40.