103A.7 - STATE BUILDING CODE.
103A.7 STATE BUILDING CODE.
1. The state building code commissioner with the approval of the
advisory council is hereby empowered and directed to formulate and
adopt and from time to time amend or revise and to promulgate, in
conformity with and subject to the conditions set forth in this
chapter, reasonable rules designed to establish minimum safeguards in
the erection and construction of buildings and structures, to protect
the human beings who live and work in them from fire and other
hazards, and to establish regulations to further protect the health,
safety, and welfare of the public.
2. The rules shall include reasonable provisions for the
following:
a. The installation of equipment.
b. The standards or requirements for materials to be used in
construction.
c. The manufacture and installation of factory-built
structures.
d. Protection of the health, safety, and welfare of occupants
and users.
e. The accessibility and use by persons with disabilities and
elderly persons, of buildings, structures, and facilities which are
constructed and intended for use by the general public. The rules
shall be consistent with federal standards for building accessibility
and shall only apply to those buildings, structures, and facilities
subject to chapter 104A.
f. The conservation of energy through thermal efficiency
standards for buildings intended for human occupancy and which are
heated or cooled and lighting efficiency standards for buildings
intended for human occupancy which are lighted.
g. Standards for sustainable design, also known and referred
to as green building standards.
h. Standards for safe rooms and storm shelters.
3. These rules shall comprise and be known as the state building
code. Section History: Early Form
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 103A.7] Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 95, §1; 99 Acts, ch 49, §1, 3; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §
201; 2008 Acts, ch 1126, § 4, 5, 33; 2008 Acts, ch 1173, § 6; 2009
Acts, ch 142, §1
Referred to in § 100.35, 100.38, 100.39, 103A.3, 103A.8B, 103A.8C,
103A.14, 103A.25, 103A.51, 104A.6, 135.18, 135B.17, 135C.2, 135C.28,
137C.31, 137D.6, 137F.16, 167.11, 231B.4, 423E.6, 435.1, 455B.172,
499B.3, 499B.20, 504C.1, 544A.28