2018 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 198B - HOUSING, BUILDINGS, AND CONSTRUCTION - BUILDING CODE .6673 Administrative regulations -- Fees -- Qualifications for and compensation of local government's inspectors -- Local governments prohibited from establishing additional permitting or inspection programs.
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198B.6673
Administrative regulations -- Fees -- Qualifications for and
compensation of local government's inspectors -- Local governments
prohibited from establishing additional permitting or inspection
programs.
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The department shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish a
reasonable schedule of fees to implement the program. The fees shall not
exceed the actual costs for the administration of the program. The department
shall also establish heating, ventilation, and air conditioning inspection
protocols that ensure timely inspections and minimal interruption to the
construction process.
The department, upon the request of any individual local governing entity or
combination of entities with existing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
permitting and inspection programs as of January 1, 2007, shall authorize them
to administer, carry out, and enforce the administrative regulations of the
department relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installations,
issue permits, and make inspections within their respective boundaries, or
perform any portion of these functions. Nothing in KRS 198B.6671 to
198B.6678 shall prohibit these entities from continuing to include major repairs
or substantial alterations to a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system
within their permitting and inspection program in the absence of a state
requirement, if major repairs or substantial alterations were included in the
entities' inspection program prior to January 1, 2007. The department may
authorize any other individual local government entities or combination of
entities to administer, carry out, and enforce the administrative regulations of
the department relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installations,
issue permits, and make inspections within their respective boundaries, or
perform any portion of those functions. When authorization is granted, the
department shall enter into contractual arrangements with the local governing
entities, which shall remain in effect as long as the local entity continues to
operate its program pursuant to guidelines adopted by the department. A
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning permit issued by an authorized local
governing entity shall be considered a permit issued by the department, and all
fees collected by the authorized local government related to the same shall be
retained by that local government.
Any local governing entity enforcing the permitting and inspection requirements
of KRS 198B.650 to 198B.689 pursuant to subsection (2) of this section may
appoint and fix the compensation of the local governing entity's heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning inspectors. No person shall perform the duties
of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning inspector unless he or she has at
least six (6) years' experience as a licensed heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning journeyman mechanic or a licensed master heating, ventilation,
and air conditioning contractor, unless he or she is a certified building inspector
who has successfully passed the examinations relating to heating, ventilation,
and air conditioning systems. At the time of employment, the heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning inspector shall be licensed or certified in
accordance with KRS 198B.650 to 198B.689.
No local governing entity shall impose any other additional heating, ventilation,
and air conditioning inspection or permit requirements, or establish any local
inspection or permitting program, unless those provisions were in place before
January 1, 2007.
Effective:June 29, 2017
History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 53, effective June 29, 2017. -Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 290, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 3, effective July 1, 2008.
Legislative Research Commission Note (4/18/2008). This statute was created by
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 3, to be effective July 1, 2008, pursuant to sec. 12 of
that Act. However, 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 127 (2008 HB 406, the State/Executive
Branch Budget) provided in Part I, F.,16., (2) HVAC Permitting and Inspecting,
that notwithstanding the delayed effective date provided in 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 86,
sec. 12, the effective date of this statute shall be July 1, 2010.
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