25 §2373. Municipal inspection options - Maine Statutes

Title 25: INTERNAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Part 6: FIRE PREVENTION AND FIRE PROTECTION

Chapter 314: BUILDING CODES AND STANDARDS

§2373. Municipal inspection options

Beginning December 1, 2010, the code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 2,000 residents and that has adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. Beginning July 1, 2012, the code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 2,000 residents and that has not adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. The code must be enforced through inspections that comply with the code through any of the following means: [2009, c. 261, Pt. A, §12 (AMD).]

1. Building officials. Building officials and local code enforcement officers;

[ 2007, c. 699, §11 (NEW) .]

2. Interlocal agreements. Interlocal agreements with other municipalities that share the use of building officials certified in building standards pursuant to Title 10, section 9723;

[ 2007, c. 699, §11 (NEW) .]

3. Contractual agreements. Contractual agreements with county or regional authorities that share the use of building officials certified in building standards pursuant to Title 10, section 9723; and

[ 2007, c. 699, §11 (NEW) .]

4. Third-party inspectors. Reports from 3rd-party inspectors certified pursuant to Title 10, section 9723 submitted to the building official prior to obtaining a certificate of occupancy in section 2357 that are obtained pursuant to independent contractual arrangements between the building owner and 3rd-party inspector or the municipality and 3rd-party inspector.

[ 2007, c. 699, §11 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

2007, c. 699, §11 (NEW). 2009, c. 261, Pt. A, §12 (AMD).