COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR
Senate Bill No. 117
(By Senators Ross, Anderson and Plymale)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government
Organization;
reported January 29, 1999.]
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A BILL to amend article six, chapter five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section sixteen, relating to requiring that all new buildings that are built and maintained with public funds to have sloped roofs in accordance with the current state building code.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article six, chapter five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section sixteen, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 6. STATE BUILDING COMMISSION.

§5-6-16. Sloped roofs required.
NNNotwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, any new building, which includes a roof, designed, constructed and maintained with public funds of the state, a county or a municipality shall have a roof of sufficient slope so that water will not accumulate into a pool on any area of the roof, in accordance with the current state building code as it relates to roofs and roof structures.

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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require all publicly-finded y- funded buildings built and maintained after JuneJune 1, 1999 to have sloped roofs.

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