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2018 SESSION

18104818D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1476
Offered January 17, 2018
A BILL to direct the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code to require the installation of arc fault circuit interrupter protection for detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses.
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Patron-- Hope
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Referred to Committee on General Laws
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Housing and Community Development shall amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code (§ 36-97 et seq. of the Code of Virginia) to require the installation of arc fault circuit interrupter protection for detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses pursuant to the International Residential Code and in compliance with the requirements of the National Electrical Code.