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SB 736 Landscape cover materials; local ordinances concerning installation or use.

Introduced by: Mark D. Obenshain | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Statewide Fire Prevention Code; City of Harrisonburg; installation or use of landscape cover materials. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, any ordinance in effect and any ordinance adopted by the governing body of the City of Harrisonburg shall not include in any local fire prevention regulations a requirement that an owner of real property who has an occupancy permit issued by the City use specific landscape cover materials or retrofit existing landscape cover materials at such property.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Statewide Fire Prevention Code; installation or use of landscape cover materials. Provides that local government regulation of the installation or use of landscape cover materials shall be deemed to affect the manner of construction or materials to be used in the erection, alteration, repair, or use of a building or structure and shall not be permitted. The bill contains technical amendments.