As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context:

(1) "Addition" means the extension or increase in floor area or height of a building.

(2) "Building" means any combination of materials, which comprises a structure affording facilities or shelter for any occupancy. The word "building" must be construed wherever used in this chapter as if followed by the words "or part or parts of the building and all equipment in the building" unless the context clearly requires a different meaning. The term "building" includes manufactured buildings but not manufactured housing or buildings heated to less than fifty degrees Fahrenheit.

(3) "Building inspection department" means the agency of a local jurisdiction with authority to make energy related building inspections and to enforce state and local laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the construction of buildings.

(4) "Construction" means the erection, fabrication, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, or repair of a building, or the installation of equipment in a building.

(5) "Equipment" means components associated with plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, lighting and refrigerating systems, and elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, boilers, and pressure vessels.

(6) "Local jurisdiction" means a county, city, municipality, or other political subdivision of this State.

(7) "One- or two-family dwelling" means a building which contains one or two units, each providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for sleeping, cooking, and sanitation.

(8) "Renovations" means the condition where within any twelve-month period, alterations or repairs costing in excess of fifty percent of the then physical value of the building are made to an existing building.

HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 156, Section 3; 1981 Act No. 125, Section 1; 2009 Act No. 46, Section 1, eff July 1, 2009.

Effect of Amendment

The 2009 amendment rewrote this section.