CHAPTER 4. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONCHAPTER 4. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION\Article 1. Unified Building and Trade Code

Article 1. Unified Building and Trade Code

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code is hereby adopted and incorporated herein by the City, as the official code for building, mechanical, structural, plumbing, fuel and gas, and electrical codes; and all related building plan review, establishing the process for appointing members to the consolidated advisory boards, setting examination and licensing standards, creating building and permit fees, enforcement procedures and fines, and related functions thereto, as more specifically defined therein, within the Sedgwick County Jurisdiction and unincorporated confines thereof, and including those second and third class cities located within Sedgwick County which have by action of their governing bodies adopted said code and have entered into separate agreements with Sedgwick County providing for enforcement within their municipal boundaries and conferring legal jurisdiction for all functions relating thereto.

At least one copy of said code shall be marked “Official Copy as adopted by the Code of the City of Garden Plain” and to which shall be attached a copy of this section, and code adoption ordinance, and filed with the City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours.

NOTE: The City of Garden Plain, Kansas has an Interlocal Service Agreement for Code Inspection and Enforcement in effect with Sedgwick County, Kansas whereby the City of Garden Plain, Kansas agrees to adopt the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code as adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas. Sedgwick County, Kansas has adopted the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code within Sedgwick County Resolution No. 175-2012, which has subsequently been amended from time to time. The code adopted in this section can be found online at the county’s website, Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department: https://www.sedgwickcounty.org/mabcd/codes-resolutions-ordinances/

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The Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department (“MABCD”) is hereby authorized to enforce the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code and all related functions set forth and defined therein, within the incorporated confines of the City of Garden Plain.

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