SECTIONS 16600-16604 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 16600-16604

16600. (a) The State Architect and the State Building Standards
Commission, in consultation with, and with the concurrence of, the
University of California, the California State University, the
Structural Engineers Association of California, and the Seismic
Safety Commission, shall develop and adopt building seismic retrofit
guidelines for state buildings, including those owned by the
University of California and by the California State University, by
January 1, 1993.
(b) Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall include provisions
for the abatement of falling hazards that are structural or
nonstructural components of buildings and that pose serious threats
to life, including, but not limited to, parapets, appendages,
cornices, hanging objects, and building cladding.
(c) Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall include provisions
for the strengthening of structures of buildings, or the means
necessary to reduce the response of a building to ground shaking
during an earthquake, so as to significantly reduce the hazards to
life, while concomitantly providing for safe egress of occupants
during and immediately after an earthquake.
(d) Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall be consistent with
the state Historical Building Code (Part 2.7 (commencing with Section
18950), Division 13) and shall include provisions for the
preservation of historical buildings.
(e) Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall incorporate
building seismic retrofit standards developed pursuant to Sections
8875.5 and 8879.5 of the Government Code.
(f) The State Architect and the State Building Standards
Commission, in cooperation with the University of California, the
California State University, the Structural Engineers Association of
California, and the Seismic Safety Commission, shall develop and
adopt seismic retrofit building standards for state buildings,
including those owned by the University of California and by the
California State University by July 1, 1996. The standards for state
buildings owned by the University of California and the California
State University shall not be more stringent than the standards for
other state buildings.
(g) The State Architect and the State Building Standards
Commission, in cooperation with the Structural Engineers Association
of California, shall submit the regulations, findings, and data
developed according to this chapter to model code writing agencies
and organizations for review and development into code format for
consideration and adoption into future model codes, as defined in
Section 18916, by August 1, 1997.

16601. (a) The State Building Standards Commission shall review and
approve the guidelines adopted by the State Architect and the State
Building Standards Commission pursuant to Section 16600 by January 1,
1994, and take administrative actions to make the guidelines
applicable to all state buildings, including those owned by the
University of California or the California State University.
(b) The State Building Standards Commission shall review and
approve the seismic retrofit building standards as developed by the
State Architect and the State Building Standards Commission pursuant
to Section 16600 by July 1, 1997, and take administrative actions to
make the standards applicable to all state buildings, including those
owned by the University of California or the California State
University.

16603. No provision of this chapter shall apply to the University
of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University
of California, by resolution, make that provision applicable.

16604. It is the intent of the Legislature that funds to carry out
the provisions of this chapter in the amount of thirty thousand
dollars ($30,000) be provided as follows:
(a) The sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) from the June
1990 Higher Education Capital Outlay Bond Fund pursuant to Chapter
14.4 (commencing with Section 67345) of Part 40 of the Education
Code, known as the Higher Education Bond Act of June 1990.
(b) The sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) from the
Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990
pursuant to Chapter 12.47 (commencing with Section 8878.50) of
Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, known as the Earthquake
Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1990.