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Biloxi staff urge adopting updated building and fire codes to protect insurance ratings and reflect new technology
Summary
City staff recommended adopting updated building and fire codes to align with newer construction technology and to maintain favorable ratings for flood insurance and building-department scoring; council members asked questions and staff said the updates also factor into the Community Rating System for the National Flood Insurance Program.
City staff recommended that Biloxi adopt the newer editions of the International Building Code and the International Fire Code to reflect construction-technology changes and to preserve municipal ratings that affect insurance costs.
A staff speaker explained that building codes are updated periodically to account for new technology and that adopting the latest codes helps the city’s…
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