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California Building Standards

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Laws are regulations that have been altered and changed for many years. Whether the changes relate to medical, environmental, or technological. These fields are continuously growing and laws that regulate these fields must change with them. Our government have established federal and state agencies to keep up with the everyday changes in our society. In order to regulate specific standards. The agency I decided to write about is the California Building Standards Commission. Because I am studying the field of Construction Management. I thought it would be reasonable to write my paper on who creates and regulates the building codes in California. However, the CBSC isn’t an agency. It is a commission within the Department of General Services …show more content…

When a Building Standard is created or improved the legislature gives authority to the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Where the HCD conduct a meeting with the public and an Initial Statement of Reason is stated for the proposal of the building standard. The building standard is then over looked by CBSC and sent to the Code Advisory Committee Meeting where the Building standard will be approved, approved as amended or disapproved. Depending on the results the CAC send recommendations to HCD for additional approval. After their approval the Building Standard is updated it gets submitted back to CBSC and they provide a second public hearing which involves a 45 day comment period. Soon after the agencies will look over the public’s comments and decides whether the building standard amendments are substantive or non-substantive and if the amendments are sufficient or no amendments were made then the Building Standard will go through its final process where the final proposed Building standard, Statement of Reason, summary and comments will be updated to the informative digest. The CBSC approves, adopts and publishes the building standard and the code will take effect in 180 days after it is

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