Title 125, PLANNING, HOUSING, AND ZONING

Sec. 4b. (1) A bed and breakfast is considered under the code to be a single family residential structure and shall not be treated as a hotel or other facility serving transient tenants. This section is effective throughout the state without local modification, notwithstanding th…

Sec. 4c. (1) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the rules promulgated under subsection (2), the owner of an existing building or structure constructed before November 6, 1974 shall install 1 or more smoke alarms in that building or structure, as provided in those rules.…

Sec. 4d. (1) Beginning December 1, 2009 and involving only buildings and structures newly constructed on or after that date, the owner, operator, or builder of residential occupancies where the occupants are primarily transient in nature, including, but not limited to, boarding h…

Sec. 4f. (1) The director may provide for, at the time of initial construction of a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling, or at the time of renovation of any existing single-family dwelling in which a permit is required, or upon the addition or creation of a bedroom, …

Sec. 4h. A school building that has a vestibule is not required to have a manual fire alarm box installed within the vestibule if a manual fire alarm box is located within 5 feet of the interior door of the vestibule.

Sec. 4i. (1) All of the following apply to the installation and use of a temporary door locking device or system in a child care center: (a) The device or system must be portable and must not be permanently affixed to the door. Individual parts of the locking assembly of the devi…

Sec. 4j. Subject to section 4k, a multiple-family dwelling that has not more than 4 levels above grade plane may have a single interior exit stairway if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The dwelling has not more than 4 units on each level. (b) The net floor area of ea…

Sec. 4k. Section 4j does not apply if the department incorporates by reference the International Code Council's publication of single interior exit stairway for a multiple-family dwelling that is 4 or more levels above grade plane into the code.

Sec. 5. (1) The commission has all powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act, including, without limitation, the powers hereinafter set forth. (2) The commission may sue and be sued; have a seal and alter it; make and execu…

Sec. 6. Rules promulgated by the commission shall be promulgated pursuant to Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, being sections 24.201 to 24.315 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The commission shall send or deliver a copy of its promulgated rules to each governmenta…

Sec. 7. (1) After consultation and with the approval of the commission, the director may do the following: (a) Subject to civil service requirements, appoint subordinate officers and employees of the commission, including legal counsel, and prescribe their duties and fix their co…

Sec. 8a. (1) This act and the code apply throughout the state. (2) Within 10 days after the effective date of this subsection, the director shall provide a notice of intent form to all governmental subdivisions administering and enforcing a nationally recognized model code other …

Sec. 8b. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the director is responsible for administration and enforcement of this act and the code. A governmental subdivision may by ordinance assume responsibility for administration and enforcement of this act within its politica…

Sec. 9. (1) A governmental subdivision may contract with a private organization to do 1 or more of the following on behalf of the enforcing agency: (a) Receive applications for building permits. (b) Receive payments of fees and fines on behalf of the governmental subdivision. (c)…

Sec. 9b. (1) The director, as prescribed in this section, may conduct a performance evaluation of an enforcing agency to assure that the administration and enforcement of this act and the code is being done pursuant to either section 8a or 8b. A performance evaluation may only be…

Sec. 9c. (1) A city that, pursuant to section 8b, has assumed responsibility for administration and enforcement of this act within its political boundary may by ordinance provide that a person is not eligible to apply for a building permit under section 10, a certificate of use a…

Sec. 10. (1) Except as otherwise provided in the code, before construction of a building or structure, the owner, or the owner's builder, architect, engineer, or agent, shall submit an application in writing to the appropriate enforcing agency for a building permit. The applicati…

Sec. 11. (1) The enforcing agency shall examine an application for a building permit. If the application conforms to this act, the code and the requirements of other applicable laws and ordinances, the enforcing agency shall approve the application and issue a building permit to …

Sec. 12. (1) An enforcing agency shall periodically inspect all construction undertaken pursuant to a building permit issued by it to insure that the construction is performed in accordance with conditions of the building permit and is consistent with requirements of the code and…

Sec. 13. A building or structure hereafter constructed shall not be used or occupied in whole or in part until a certificate of use and occupancy has been issued by the appropriate enforcing agency. A building or structure hereafter altered in whole or in part shall not be used o…

Sec. 13a. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Central furnace" means a self-contained, gas-burning appliance for heating air by transfer of heat of combustion through metal to the air, and designed to supply heated air through ducts to spaces remote from, or adjacent to, the applia…

Sec. 13b. (1) As used in this section, "lead free" means either of the following: (a) Solder and flux containing not more than 0.2% lead. (b) Pipe and pipe fittings containing not more than 8% lead. (2) Beginning on the effective date of this section, pipes, pipe fittings, solder…

Sec. 13c. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Board and room facility" means a residential building that does not provide separate cooking facilities for individual occupants and that is arranged for primarily nontransient shelter and sleeping accommodations for 3 or more adults. B…

Sec. 13d. (1) Notwithstanding any provision in this act and until the promulgation of the complete building code update after October 15, 1999, a governmental subdivision shall not enforce a requirement for stairwell geometry in occupancies in use group R-3 structures and within …

Sec. 13e. This act does not prohibit the sharing of an elevator between 2 buildings as long as the buildings are in compliance with this act, the code, and the following acts and rules promulgated under those acts: (a) The fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29.1 to 29.34. (b)…

Sec. 13f. Log walls are permitted in residential buildings if all of the following requirements are met: (a) The log walls have a minimum average wall thickness of 5 inches or greater. (b) The log walls comply with the international code council standard on the design and constru…

Sec. 13g. (1) Except as otherwise provided by the Michigan rehabilitation code for existing buildings, where an alteration affects the accessibility to, or contains, an area of primary function, the route to the primary function area shall be accessible. The accessible route to t…

Sec. 14. (1) A construction board of appeals for each governmental subdivision enforcing the code shall be created consisting of not less than 3 nor more than 7 members, as determined by the governing body of the governmental subdivision. Unless otherwise provided by local law or…

Sec. 15. (1) After a public hearing a board of appeals may grant a specific variance to a substantive requirement of the code if the literal application of the substantive requirement would result in an exceptional, practical difficulty to the applicant, and if both of the follow…

Sec. 16. (1) An interested person, or the interested person's authorized agent, may appeal a decision of a board of appeals to the commission within 10 business days after filing of the decision with the enforcing agency or, in case of an appeal because of failure of a board of a…

Sec. 17. An appeal to a board of appeals or the commission pursuant to this act, or to a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, does not stay a stop construction order issued by an enforcing agency or prevent an enforcing a…

Sec. 18. An appeal pursuant to Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, from a decision of the commission or a board, following an appeal from a decision of a board of appeals or enforcing agency shall be made by a claim of appeal filed with the court of appeals. An ap…

Sec. 19. (1) The department shall promulgate rules establishing a procedure by which a premanufactured unit intended for use in this state may be issued a certificate of acceptability by the department at its place of manufacture. (2) The procedure shall require that the manufact…

Sec. 20. At the request of an enforcing agency or the governmental subdivision, the commission may agree to examine any plans and specifications submitted to the enforcing agency or the governmental subdivision, in connection with an application for a building permit to determine…

Sec. 21. A person may petition the commission to approve the use of a particular material, product, method of manufacture or method or manner of construction or installation. The petition shall be in writing on a form to be prescribed by the commission accompanied by such informa…

Sec. 21a. (1) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, heating cable shall not be installed or used in a building or structure in this state until approved by the commission pursuant to section 21. As provided in section 8, this sec…

Sec. 22. (1) The legislative body of a governmental subdivision shall establish reasonable fees to be charged by the governmental subdivision for acts and services performed by the enforcing agency or construction board of appeals under this act, which fees shall be intended to b…

Sec. 23. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person or corporation, including an officer, director, or employee of a corporation, or a governmental official or agent charged with the responsibility of issuing permits or inspecting buildings or structures, who does any of …

Sec. 23a. (1) In addition to any other penalties or remedies provided by law, a person who is required to be licensed as a residential builder or residential maintenance and alteration contractor, or as a master or journeyman plumber, an electrical contractor or master or journey…

Sec. 24. Until 6 months after promulgation of the code, construction regulations heretofore or hereafter adopted by a governmental subdivision continue in effect unless repealed by local law or ordinance. Six months after the promulgation of the code and thereafter, construction …

Sec. 25. This act does not affect the functions of the state plumbing board with respect to the licensing of master or journeyman plumbers and the registration of plumbers' apprentices, and of the electrical administrative board with respect to the issuance of class 1, electrical…

Sec. 26. Subject to other provisions of this act concerned with the relationship between the commission and the boards, the state plumbing and electrical administrative boards are transferred to the commission without alteration of their functions.

Sec. 28. (1) Any provision of any of the following that is inconsistent or in conflict with this act is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency or conflict: (a) Section 34 of 1933 (Ex Sess) PA 18, MCL 125.684. (b) Article 11 of the skilled trades regulation act, 2016 PA 407…

Sec. 28a. (1) Notwithstanding any other law of this state to the contrary, a permit or other approval is not required for the siting, installation, maintenance, placement, replacement, or servicing of a business monitoring system, a home monitoring system, or a low-voltage electr…

Sec. 29. Except as otherwise provided in this act, this act does not abrogate or impair the power of a governmental subdivision or enforcing agency to enforce the provisions of the code or any other applicable construction regulations, or to prevent violations or impose sanctions…

Sec. 30. Proceedings pending and rights and liabilities existing, acquired or incurred under existing construction regulations as long as they remain in effect are saved. The proceedings may be consummated according to the law in force when the proceedings were commenced. Neither…