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Staff to convene task forces to review adoption of 2024 International Codes and 2023 NEC
Summary
City building staff recommended updating Overland Park’s code suite to the 2024 International Codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code and proposed separate commercial and residential task forces to review amendments and return with ordinances. Staff set a target to return with drafts and recommended amendments to the committee next year.
City building officials told the Community Development Committee they will begin a formal process to update the city’s building codes to the 2024 International Codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code.
Jim Brown, the city’s building official, said staff completed a partial evaluation and recommended adopting the current national codes to ‘‘ensure that the public is provided with the most up‑to‑date level of public safety as it relates to buildings.’’ Brown described a two‑track process: a commercial task force…
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