An Act To Adopt Tiny House Standards in the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code

Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9721, sub-§5  is enacted to read:

Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §9722, sub-§6, ¶J,  as amended by PL 2011, c. 365, §1 and c. 408, §2, is further amended to read:

Sec. 3. Standards for tiny house construction. No later than January 1, 2018, the Technical Building Codes and Standards Board shall adopt standards for tiny house construction consistent with the Tiny House Appendix to the International Residential Code, RB 168-16, Appendix V, as approved by the International Code Council in December 2016. The adoption of standards pursuant to this section is considered routine technical rulemaking under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

SUMMARY

This bill requires the Technical Building Codes and Standards Board to ensure that tiny house construction is permissible under the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code. The bill also requires that the Technical Building Codes and Standards Board adopt standards for tiny house construction consistent with the Tiny House Appendix to the International Residential Code, as approved by the International Code Council in December 2016.