Title 29 — Title 29: Public Safety and State Police

Sec. 29-250. Office of the State Fire Marshal. Office of the State Building Inspector. There shall be (1) an Office of the State Fire Marshal, and (2) an Office of the State Building Inspector, within the Department of Administrative Services. The head of each office shall report…

Sec. 29-251. (Formerly Sec. 19-395f). Codes and Standards Committee; duties; membership. There shall be within the Department of Administrative Services a Codes and Standards Committee whose duty it shall be to work with the State Building Inspector in the enforcement of this par…

Sec. 29-251a. Review of regulations. As used in this section, “program requirements” means any program or part of a program which is required by law. The Commissioner of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Codes and Standards Committee, shall conduct a review of exi…

Sec. 29-251b. Building Code Training Council; membership; vacancies. There is established, within the Department of Administrative Services, a Building Code Training Council which shall advise the State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee on all matters perta…

Sec. 29-251c. Development of training and educational programs. Code Training and Education Board of Control. Regulations. Reporting of funds received; expenditures. (a) As used in subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of this section “prior approval of the Code Training and Educati…

Sec. 29-252. (Formerly Sec. 19-395). State Building Code: Adoption, revision and amendments. State Building Inspector: Appointment; interpretations of code. Appeal. (a)(1) The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall, jointly, with the approval of the …

Sec. 29-252a. Code applicable to all state agencies, Connecticut Airport Authority and Connecticut Port Authority. Building permit, education fee and certificate of occupancy required for state, Connecticut Airport Authority and Connecticut Port Authority buildings. Appeal. Exemp…

Sec. 29-252b. Procedure for adoption and amendment of State Building Code. (a) For the purposes of this section, “proposed code” means a proposal by the State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee for a new State Building Code or for a change in, addition to or…

Sec. 29-253. (Formerly Sec. 19-395e). Code applicable to all municipalities. Ordinance governing demolition of hazardous building. (a) The State Building Code, including any amendment to said code adopted by the State Building Inspector and Codes and Standards Committee, shall be…

Sec. 29-254. (Formerly Sec. 19-395g). Amendments to code. Variations and exemptions. (a) Any town, city or borough or any interested person may propose amendments to the State Building Code, which proposed amendments may be either applicable to all municipalities or, where it is …

Sec. 29-254a. Penalty for violation of State Building Code. Any person who violates any provision of the State Building Code shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (P.A. 88-359, S. 9, 12;…

Sec. 29-254b. List of variations or exemptions from, or equivalent or alternate compliance with, code. Not later than January 1, 2003, the State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee, in conjunction with the Commissioner of Administrative Services, shall create…

Sec. 29-255. (Formerly Sec. 19-395h). Authority of fire marshals unaffected. This part shall not be construed to limit or restrict the authority of the state or local fire marshals as provided in part II of this chapter. (1969, P.A. 443, S. 16.) History: Sec. 19-395h transferred …

Sec. 29-256. (Formerly Sec. 19-395q). Revision of Building and Fire Safety Codes. Rehabilitation subcode. Regulations. (a) In order to make the State Building Code and the Fire Safety Code more responsive to present economic conditions, to promote reduction in the cost of constru…

Sec. 29-256a. Revision of State Building Code. Energy efficiency. Construction standards. Verification. (a) The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall revise the State Building Code to require that commercial and residential buildings and building el…

Sec. 29-256b. Revision of code. Use of ungraded lumber. The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall, jointly, with the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services, amend the State Building Code adopted under section 29-252 to allow the use…

Sec. 29-256c. Revision of code. Bed and breakfast establishments. Not later than January 1, 2000, the State Building Inspector and the State Fire Marshal, in conjunction with the Codes and Standards Committee, shall make amendments to the State Building Code and the Fire Safety C…

Sec. 29-256d. Revision of code. Path marking systems. Section 29-256d is repealed, effective July 1, 2022. (P.A. 06-162, S. 1; P.A. 11-8, S. 19; P.A. 22-118, S. 514.)

Sec. 29-256e. Revision of code. Diaper changing tables. The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall jointly, with the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services and in accordance with the provisions of section 29-252b, include in the next…

Sec. 29-256f. Amendments to State Building Code and Fire Safety Code re residential occupancies served by single exit stairway and three-unit and four-unit residential buildings. The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall, jointly, with the approval …

Sec. 29-257. (Formerly Sec. 19-395r). Scope of revision. Section 29-257 is repealed. (P.A. 77-512, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-172; P.A. 88-356, S. 5.)

Sec. 29-258. (Formerly Sec. 19-395s). Educational program. The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall conduct a comprehensive educational program for design professionals, construction industry representatives and local building officials for carrying out the purpose of se…

Sec. 29-259. (Formerly Sec. 19-395t). Exemption from code for urban homesteading property and historic structures. (a) The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall revise the State Building Code to allow exemptions from the State Building Code for prop…

Sec. 29-260. (Formerly Sec. 19-396). Municipal building official to administer code. Appointment. Dismissal. (a) The chief executive officer of any town, city or borough, unless other means are already provided, shall appoint an officer to administer the code for a term of four y…

Sec. 29-261. (Formerly Sec. 19-397). Qualifications of building official and assistant building officials. Powers and duties. Return of building plans and specifications. (a) The building official, to be eligible for appointment, shall have had at least five years' experience in …

Sec. 29-262. (Formerly Sec. 19-397a). Licensure of building officials. Continuing educational programs. Suspension or revocation of license or certificate. Hearing. Appeal. Indemnification. (a) The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee acting jointly, wit…

Sec. 29-262a. Uniform building permit application form. The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall establish a uniform building permit application form. (P.A. 93-131, S. 1, 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 13-247, S. 200.) History: P.A. 93-131 effective July 1, 1994; pursuant to…

Sec. 29-263. (Formerly Sec. 19-398). Permit to construct or alter. Education fee. Building permit fee exemptions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (h) of section 29-252a and the State Building Code adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of section 29-252, after October 1, 1970, n…

Sec. 29-263a. Working drawings to be accompanied by evidence of licensure by the state. In the event that working drawings are used for the installation, alteration or modification of a fire sprinkler system, no state, city, town or borough building official responsible for the e…

Sec. 29-264. (Formerly Sec. 19-398a). Approval of sets of building plans by State Building Inspector. Issuance of permits pursuant to such approval. The State Building Inspector may, upon application by a builder setting forth that a set of plans and specifications will be utiliz…

Sec. 29-265. (Formerly Sec. 19-400). Certificate of occupancy. (a) Except as provided in subsection (h) of section 29-252a, no building or structure erected or altered in any municipality after October 1, 1970, shall be occupied or used, in whole or in part, until a certificate o…

Sec. 29-265a. Permits for swimming pools. (a) As used in this section, “pool alarm” means a device which emits a sound of at least fifty decibels when a person or an object weighing fifteen pounds or more enters the water in a swimming pool. (b) No building permit shall be issued…

Sec. 29-265b. Rain sensor devices for automatic lawn sprinkler systems. (a) Any state agency or commercial enterprise that begins installation of an automatic lawn sprinkler system on or after October 1, 2003, shall equip such sprinkler system with a rain sensor device or switch …

Sec. 29-265c. Concrete foundations for new residential or commercial building. Written documentation of concrete supplier and installer. Prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for a new residential or commercial building for which a concrete foundation was installed …

Sec. 29-265d. Reassessment of residential building made with defective concrete. Written evaluation by professional engineer. Adjustment by assessor. Appeal. Notification of revaluation. Notification if foundation repaired or replaced. (a) Any owner of a residential building who …

Sec. 29-265e. Confidentiality of documentation re claims of faulty or failing concrete foundations in residential buildings. Any documentation provided to or obtained by an executive branch agency, including documentation provided or obtained prior to May 25, 2016, relating to cl…

Sec. 29-265f. Seller of concrete to provide purchaser with written notice re compliance with applicable pyrrhotite standard. If the federal Army Corps of Engineers, National Institute of Standards and Technology, ASTM International or other nationally recognized standards bureau …

Sec. 29-265g. Prohibition on reuse of recycled material known to contain pyrrhotite. Penalty. (a) On and after October 31, 2017, no person shall reuse any part of recycled material known to contain the mineral pyrrhotite to produce structural concrete for residential or commercia…

Sec. 29-266. (Formerly Sec. 19-402). Municipal board of appeals. Filing of appeals in absence of board of appeals. (a) A board of appeals shall be appointed by each municipality. Such board shall consist of five members, all of whom shall meet the qualifications set forth in the …

Sec. 29-267. (Formerly Sec. 19-398b). Tenement House Act provision re room size inapplicable to construction pursuant to Building Code. Section 19a-358 shall not apply to any building or structure erected or altered pursuant to the State Building Code. (1969, P.A. 443, S. 17; 197…

Sec. 29-268. (Formerly Sec. 19-398c). Two exits required for sleeping rooms. Section 29-268 is repealed. (P.A. 73-663; P.A. 88-356, S. 5.)

Sec. 29-269. (Formerly Sec. 19-395a). Standards for construction of buildings to accommodate persons with physical disabilities. (a) The State Building Inspector and the Codes and Standards Committee shall revise the State Building Code to be in substantial compliance with the pr…

Sec. 29-269a. Report on proposed revisions to State Building Code re accessibility for disabled persons. Section 29-269a is repealed, effective July 1, 2017. (P.A. 90-300, S. 6, 8; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 17-96, S. 44.)

Sec. 29-269b. Symbol of access. Regulations. Not later than January 1, 2017, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall promulgate a policy and adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, designating the symbol of access to be used on signage indica…

Sec. 29-269c. Use of symbol of access. Beginning January 1, 2017, any reference to the international symbol of accessibility in the State Building Code shall be deemed to mean the symbol of access, as defined in subsection (a) of section 14-253a. The symbol of access shall be use…

Sec. 29-270. (Formerly Sec. 19-395o). Posting of access symbols. Section 29-270 is repealed. (P.A. 75-234; P.A. 87-123, S. 4; P.A. 88-356, S. 5.)

Sec. 29-270a. Automatic doors for persons with physical disabilities in certain shopping malls or retail businesses. The owner of any enclosed shopping mall or retail business with more than fifty thousand square feet of floor space, shall install, in at least one of the primary …

Sec. 29-271. (Formerly Sec. 19-395p). Design of units and facilities in state-assisted housing for persons with physical disabilities. Any state-assisted rental housing or rental housing project constructed or substantially rehabilitated under a building permit application filed …

Sec. 29-272. (Formerly Sec. 19-396a). Definitions. As used in this part: (a) “Complex” means any group of buildings located on a single parcel of land or on contiguous parcels of land or any building or group of buildings which are subdivided into separate occupancies and planned…

Sec. 29-273. (Formerly Sec. 19-396b). Accessibility or adaptability requirements for residential buildings and complexes. Each residential building or complex constructed, substantially renovated or established by change of use under a building permit application filed on or afte…