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Fire marshal proposes amending city fire code language to reference state’s current International Fire Code edition
Summary
Sandy’s fire marshal asked the council to amend Title 20 to reference the current edition of the International Fire Code adopted by Utah rather than a year‑specific code cycle, and to add appendix titles for clarity.
Sandy — Fire Marshal Gerald Strobel told the Sandy City Council on Feb. 4 that the city should amend its municipal code to reference the "current edition of the International Fire Code adopted by the state of Utah" instead of listing a static year in the ordinance.
Strobel said the proposed language change would reduce the need for administrative code updates every time the state adopts a new code cycle. "What I'm proposing tonight is to eliminate the year of the code and come up with a verbiage of the current edition of the international fire code adopted by the state of Utah," Strobel said. He added that fire department leaders would still brief the council on substantive code changes between cycles.
Strobel also said staff, in discussion with legal, planned to add the titles of the appendices the city has adopted (for example, appendix B, C, D, H) so that future letter changes to appendix identifiers would not force a full ordinance cycle just to preserve which appendix the city has chosen to adopt.
Council members asked clarifying questions about how appendix changes would be handled and how the amended wording would interact with enforcement and public information. Strobel said the change is intended to simplify public communication and reduce routine visits to council for purely ministerial updates.
Why it matters: The change would streamline the city's reference to fire code editions and reduce council workload for technical updates, while preserving Council oversight of substantive changes.
Status: Strobel presented the proposal and fielded questions; the item was informational at the Feb. 4 meeting and the council will receive the formal ordinance language at a later date for action.
