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Committee approves amendment to ease sprinkler requirement for seasonal youth camp cabins
Summary
After hearings with camp operators, the state fire marshal and building-code officials, the committee adopted an amendment and voted to advance Senate Bill 95 to allow a limited waiver of automatic sprinkler requirements for certain seasonal youth camp cabins while preserving other fire-safety measures
The Executive Departments and Administration Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 95 with an amendment that preauthorizes building-code and fire-code amendments to treat certain youth camp cabins as seasonal residential structures exempt from automatic sprinkler requirements.
Senator Mark McConkie introduced the bill as an attempt to address confusion about how state building and fire codes apply to seasonal children’s summer-camp cabins. He said the statute is intended to reflect longstanding practice and to reduce costly and inconsistent enforcement actions when local interpretations change.
Camp operators and the American Camp Association’s government-affairs…
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