Roofing in Angola, Indiana

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STATE-SET, AND ANGOLA TAKES IT BY A FLOATING REFERENCE RATHER THAN A FROZEN EDITION. Municipal Code section 15.10.320, Adoption of rules by reference, provides: "Pursuant to IC 22-13-2-3(b), the rules of the Indiana Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission, as set out in the following articles of IAC Title 675, are hereby incorporated by reference in this code and shall include any later amendments to those rules." The list that follows names ten articles, among them "Article 13 - Building Codes" and "Article 14 - Indiana Residential Code". The section carries the history "(Ord. 1488-2015 s 34; Ord. 1165-2004; Code 2000 s 150.37)", and it adds that two copies of the incorporated rules are on file with the clerk under IC 36-1-5-4, and that a variance granted by the Building Commissioner is not effective until approved by the Commission under IC 22-13-2-7(b). WHAT THE FLOATING WORDS BUY A ROOFER. Because the incorporation expressly includes later amendments, Angola does not lag behind the state when the state amends its rules, and there is no older local edition sitting underneath this one to argue about. The current residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which incorporates the first printing of the 2018 International Residential Code. IC 22-13-2-3(b) is the statute the section cites, and it provides that a reference to the Indiana Administrative Code "shall be construed to include all amendments as of the date that the reference is written and any later amendments to that provision, unless accompanied by a reference to a specific edition or supplement". No specific edition is named here. THE CITY DESCRIBES THE SAME STRUCTURE IN ITS OWN VOICE. Angola's Building Safety pages state that "The Angola Common Council adopts an ordinance in accordance with Indiana Code 36-1-3 and 675 IAC 12-10 to require compliance with the statewide code of fire safety laws and building laws adopted in the rules of the fire prevention and building safety commission under Indiana Code 22-13", and that because the Council establishes restricted fire limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction the building code ordinance is adopted under Indiana Code 36-7-10. THE ONE LOCAL TECHNICAL PROVISION, AND ITS SCOPE. All thirty two sections of Chapter 15.10 were read. The chapter is administrative from end to end apart from section 15.10.060, Construction within restricted fire limits, which requires exterior walls of noncombustible material and provides that no person shall alter any building "frame, wooden or other, or roof of which are not constructed of some noncombustible material". That provision is confined to the restricted fire limits and does not reach an ordinary re-roof elsewhere in the city.