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PHED committee advances update to electrical code, holds four bills for later review
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The Prince George's County Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee voted 3-0 to give favorable recommendation to a measure aligning the county building code with the 2020 National Electrical Code and voted to hold four other bills for future consideration, including zoning and tenant-protection measures.
Prince George's County Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee Chair DeNoga on Monday moved a favorable recommendation for legislation to align the county building code with the 2020 edition of the National Electrical Code, and the committee held four other bills for later consideration.
The committee voted 3-0 to advance the building-code update after hearing from Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement staff. "This is the adoption of the National Electrical Code, the 2020 editions, and it's basically aligning our current subtitle 9 with those codes," said Laurie Paris, chief of staff for the Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement. The Office of Law advised the committee the draft was in proper legislative form. "We find it to be in the proper legislative form with no legal impediments," said Hinton of the Office of Law.
The favorable committee action moves…
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