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Enid staff propose automatic adoption of updated International Codes; new sewer backflow requirement floated
Summary
City staff told the commission they want ordinances that automatically adopt the state-updated versions of the International Existing Building Code, plumbing, fuel gas and mechanical codes; a separate proposed plumbing change would require backflow/backwater valves on all new construction and service-line alterations.
City code officials briefed the Enid Mayor and Board of Commissioners Nov. 4 on proposed ordinances to align the city's building- and trade-code references with state adoption and on a proposed plumbing change that would require sewer backflow (backwater) valves on new construction.
A city presenter summarized the proposal as an "automatic adoption" mechanism: the ordinances would reference the state-adopted codes so that when the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission adopts a newer edition (for example, moving from the…
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