View Our Newest Version Here

2011 Utah Code
Title 15A State Construction and Fire Codes Act
Chapter 3 Statewide Amendments Incorporated as Part of State Construction Code
Section 302 Amendments to Chapters 1 and 2 of IPC.

15A-3-302. Amendments to Chapters 1 and 2 of IPC.
(1) A new IPC, Section 101.2, is added as follows: "For clarification, the International Private Sewage Disposal Code is not part of the plumbing code even though it is in the same printed volume."
(2) In IPC, Section 202, the definition for "Backflow Backpressure, Low Head" is deleted.
(3) In IPC, Section 202, the following definition is added: "Certified Backflow Preventer Assembly Tester. A person who has shown competence to test Backflow prevention assemblies to the satisfaction of the authority having jurisdiction under Utah Code, Subsection 19-4-104(4)."
(4) In IPC, Section 202, the definition for "Cross Connection" is deleted and replaced with the following: "Cross Connection. Any physical connection or potential connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other either water of unknown or questionable safety or steam, gas, or chemical, whereby there exists the possibility for flow from one system to the other, with the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems (see "Backflow")."
(5) In IPC, Section 202, the definition for "Potable Water" is deleted and replaced with the following: "Potable Water. Water free from impurities present in amounts sufficient to cause disease or harmful physiological effects and conforming to the Utah Code, Title 19, Chapters 4, Safe Drinking Water Act, and 5, Water Quality Act, and the regulations of the public health authority having jurisdiction."

Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Utah may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.