Title 23
Health and Safety
Chapter 27.3
State Building Code
Article 1
Administration and Enforcement
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-27.3-107.4
§ 23-27.3-107.4. Qualifications and duties of the state building commissioner.
(a) The state building commissioner shall serve as the executive secretary to the state building code standards committee. In addition to the state building commissioner's other duties as set forth in this chapter, the state building commissioner shall assume the authority for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the state building code in a municipality where there is no local building official.
(b) The state building commissioner shall be a member of the classified service, and for administrative purposes shall be assigned a position in the department of business regulation. Qualifications for the position of the state building commissioner shall be established in accordance with provisions of the classified service of the state, and shall include the provision that the qualifications include at least ten (10) years' experience in building or building regulations generally, and that the commissioner be an architect or professional engineer licensed in the state or a certified building official presently or previously employed by a municipality and having at least ten (10) years' experience in the building construction or inspection field.
History of Section.
P.L. 1976, ch. 256, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 236, §§ 3, 4; P.L. 1985, ch. 181, art. 61, § 9; P.L. 2018, ch. 47, art. 3, § 3.