Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3781 - Building Standards - General Provisions

• Section 3781.01 - Municipal Corporation May Make Additional Regulations.
  (A) Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code do not prevent the legislative authority of a municipal corporation from making further and additional...
• Section 3781.02 - Exceptions To Certain Requirements.
  The provisions prescribing the minimum distance at which buildings or structures shall be located from any lot line or the provisions relating to open...
• Section 3781.03 - Enforcement - Supervision - Records.
  (A) The state fire marshal, the fire chief of a municipal corporation that has a fire department, or the fire chief of a township...
• Section 3781.031 - Issuance Of Adjudication Or Stop Work Order.
  (A) Any department or agency of the state or any political subdivision that enforces Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or the...
• Section 3781.04 - Jurisdiction For Violations Of Building Standards.
  A judge of the county court or municipal court judge has final jurisdiction within the territory for which he is elected or appointed in...
• Section 3781.05 - Plumbing Standards For Veterans' Emergency Housing.
  The installation and use of federal facilities, which are a reconstruction of, or relocation of, an existing facility and not a new facility, for...
• Section 3781.06 - Public Buildings To Be Safe And Sanitary - Definitions.
  (A) (1) Any building that may be used as a place of resort, assembly, education, entertainment, lodging, dwelling, trade, manufacture, repair, storage, traffic, or...
• Section 3781.061 - Exemption For Building Or Structure Used In Agriculture.
  Whenever a county zoning inspector under section 303.16 of the Revised Code, or a township zoning inspector under section 519.16 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3781.07 - Organization Of Board - Employees.
  There is hereby established in the department of commerce a board of building standards consisting of fifteen members appointed by the governor with the...
• Section 3781.08 - Rules Of Procedure.
  The board of building standards shall organize by choosing a chairman who shall serve for a term of two years. The department of commerce...
• Section 3781.09 - Rules Of Procedure.
  The board of building standards may adopt its own rules of procedure not inconsistent with sections 3781.06 to 3781.18, inclusive, and section 3791.04 of...
• Section 3781.10 - Board Of Building Standards - Powers And Duties.
  (A) (1) The board of building standards shall formulate and adopt rules governing the erection, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of all buildings or...
• Section 3781.101 - Proceedings Of The Board Of Building Standards.
  In any proceedings under said sections involving the adoption, amendment or rescission of a rule or regulation the full text of the proposed rule,...
• Section 3781.102 - Extending Building Department Certifications.
  (A) Any county or municipal building department certified pursuant to division (E) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code as of September 14, 1970,...
• Section 3781.103 - Deadbolt Locks Or Equivalent Security Locking Device For Swinging Exit Doors.
  The Ohio board of building standards shall adopt, pursuant to division (A) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code, a rule requiring that the...
• Section 3781.104 - Smoke Detector Systems Or Sprinkler System For Apartment Buildings And Condominiums.
  (A) One hundred eighty days after the board of building standards files its rules with the secretary of state and the director of the...
• Section 3781.105 - Certification Of Fire Protection System Designers.
  (A) The board of building standards shall certify individuals who design fire protection systems for buildings and who meet the requirements specified in this...
• Section 3781.106 - Devices To Regulate Ingress And Egress Through Doors In School Buildings.
  (A) The board of building standards shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for the use of a device...
• Section 3781.107 - Hotel To Have Available Fire Warning Device Producing Visible Warning Signal.
  Every hotel shall have available at least one operational single station automatic fire warning device approved by the fire official of jurisdiction, that produces...
• Section 3781.108 - Fire Suppression System Required In Certain New Tall Buildings Used For Human Occupancy.
  (A) Every building constructed on or after the effective date of this section with floors used for human occupancy located more than seventy-five feet...
• Section 3781.109 - Rest Room Facilities.
  (A) The board of building standards shall adopt rules governing the number of water closets required to be installed in women's and men's rest...
• Section 3781.11 - Rules Of Board Of Building Standards - Public Nuisance.
  (A) The rules of the board of building standards shall: (1) For nonresidential buildings, provide uniform minimum standards and requirements, and for residential buildings,...
• Section 3781.111 - Facilitating Reasonable Access And Use By All Persons With Disability Of Buildings And Facilities Of Buildings.
  (A) In addition to the powers conferred by any other section of the Revised Code, the board of building standards shall adopt standards and...
• Section 3781.112 - Security Facility May Use Delayed Egress And Coded Doors.
  (A) As used in this section, "secured facility" means any of the following: (1) A maternity unit, newborn care nursery, or maternity home licensed...
• Section 3781.12 - Petition For Adoption, Amendment Or Annulment Of Rule Or Regulation.
  (A) (1) Any person may petition the board of building standards to adopt, amend, or annul a rule adopted pursuant to section 3781.10 of...
• Section 3781.13 - Petition For Hearing On Action Of Board.
  Any person interested, either because of ownership or occupation of any property affected by any rule described in section 3781.12 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3781.14 - Court Action Against Board Of Building Standards.
  Any person in interest mentioned in section 3781.13 of the Revised Code who is dissatisfied with any action of the board of building standards...
• Section 3781.15 - Injunction Proceedings.
  The construction, use, or occupation of any building which is declared by sections 3781.06 to 3781.18, inclusive, section 3781.031, and section 3791.04 of the...
• Section 3781.16 - Effect On Municipal Or Other State Authorities.
  Sections 3781.06 to 3781.18 and section 3791.04 of the Revised Code do not limit any of the powers of the public utilities commission, the...
• Section 3781.17 - Assistance By Commerce Department.
  The board of building standards may require the department of commerce to make such investigations, reports, and tests and submit such information as it...
• Section 3781.18 - Certain Descriptions Prescribe Minimum Standards.
  Wherever Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or the rules adopted pursuant to those chapters describe particular fixtures, devices, materials, systems, method...
• Section 3781.181 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 05-27-2005
• Section 3781.182 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 05-27-2005
• Section 3781.183 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §105.01, eff. 9/10/2012. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 7/1/2011. Effective Date:...
• Section 3781.184 - Federal Manufactured Home Construction And Safety Standards.
  (A) Every manufactured home, as defined in division (C)(4) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, shall be constructed in accordance with the federal...
• Section 3781.19 - Board Of Building Appeals.
  There is hereby established in the department of commerce a board of building appeals consisting of five members who shall be appointed by the...
• Section 3781.191 - Board Jurisdiction Regarding Residential Building Code.
  The Ohio board of building appeals has no authority to hear any case based on the Ohio residential building code or to grant any...
• Section 3781.20 - Municipal And County Boards Of Building Appeals.
  (A) The board of building standards may certify municipal and county boards of building appeals to hear and decide appeals from adjudication orders pertaining...
• Section 3781.21 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 05-27-2005
• Section 3781.25 - One-call Utility Protection Service Definitions.
  As used in sections 3781.25 to 3781.38 of the Revised Code: (A) "Protection service" means a notification center, but not an owner of an...
• Section 3781.26 - Protection Service For Underground Utility Facilities.
  (A) Each utility that owns or operates underground utility facilities shall participate in and register the location of its underground utility facilities with a...
• Section 3781.261 - Protection Of Underground Utility Facilities Training.
  An excavator, contractor, or utility that utilizes a protection service shall obtain training in the protection of underground utility facilities. An excavator, contractor, or...
• Section 3781.27 - Developer Or Designer Notifying Protection Service Of Intended Excavation.
  (A) In order to ascertain the name of each utility with underground utility facilities located at the proposed excavation site and the types and...
• Section 3781.271 - Modification Of One-call Notification System.
  Beginning on July 1, 2013, each protection service shall reasonably modify its one-call notification system so as to permit the reasonable identification of the...
• Section 3781.28 - Excavator Notifying Protection Service Or Pipeline Owner.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (C), (D), (E), and (F) of this section, at least forty-eight hours but not more than ten...
• Section 3781.29 - Marking Location Of Facilities Or Give Notice Of No Facilities At Site.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, within forty-eight hours of receiving notice under section 3781.28 of the Revised...
• Section 3781.30 - Duties Of Excavator.
  (A) When making excavations using traditional or trenchless technologies, the excavator shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain reasonable clearance between any underground...
• Section 3781.31 - Notifying Of Commencement Of Excavation Or Of Removal Of Markings.
  (A) When a utility marks its underground utility facilities in accordance with section 3781.29 of the Revised Code, the utility may request that the...
• Section 3781.32 - Connections Or Tie-ins Within Right-of-way.
  (A) Any connections or tie-ins to existing utility services within a public right-of-way shall comply with permit requirements of the public authority that has...
• Section 3781.34 - Underground Technical Committee.
  (A) There is hereby created the underground technical committee. (B) The committee shall consist of four members from the stakeholder group of the commercial...
• Section 3781.341 - Conflicts Of Interest.
  A member of the underground technical committee who has a conflict of interest in a particular review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3781.342 - Meetings.
  (A) The underground technical committee may conduct meetings in person, by teleconference, or by video conference. (B) The committee shall establish a primary meeting...
• Section 3781.343 - Disclosure Requirements.
  A member of the underground technical committee is not subject to the disclosure requirements of sections 102.02 and 102.021 of the Revised Code by...
• Section 3781.36 - Duties Of Committee.
  (A) The underground technical committee shall do the following: (1) Coordinate with the public utilities commission in carrying out its duties under Chapter 4913....
• Section 3781.38 - Member Immunity.
  Every member of the underground technical committee shall be immune, individually and jointly, from civil liability for any act or omission done or made...
• Section 3781.51 To 3781.53 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-04-1984
• Section 3781.55 - Breast-feeding In Places Of Public Accommodation.
  A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location of a place of public accommodation wherein the mother otherwise is permitted. "Place...
• Section 3781.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (E) of section 3781.111 of the Revised Code shall be issued a warning for a first offense. On each subsequent...

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