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PROPOSED ORDINANCE
COOK COUNTY BUILDING CODE AND OTHER RELEVANT CODE PROVISIONS
The sponsors and presenters of this ordinance have provided a substitute for the Cook County Electrical Code. The proposed codes are Adobe PDF attachments on the Cook County Legistar website, replacing previous attachments posted when the agenda was originally released:
https://cook-county.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1936339&GUID=428FDCEE-1B72-4AD6-9FAF-64B521230A85&Options=&Search=
An Ordinance authorizing comprehensive amendments to Cook County's Buildings and Building Regulations Code, also known as the Cook County Building Code or Building and Environmental Ordinance.
WHEREAS, Section 6(a) of Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois provides that "a County which has a Chief Executive Officer elected by the electors of the County ... (is) a Home Rule Unit" and The County of Cook, Illinois (the "County"), has a Chief Executive Officer elected by the electors of the County and is therefore a Home Rule Unit and may, under the power granted by said Section 6(a) of Article VII of the Constitution of 1970, exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, Cook County originally passed the Cook County Building Ordinance on March 11, 1949 and approved comprehensive amendments to the Building Ordinance on June 2, 1997; additional amendments have been approved by the Cook County Board of Commissioners from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the Cook County Building Code is currently made up of four components; building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical and it is the desire of the Department of Building and Zoning to introduce comprehensive amendments to the Cook County Building Code, Electrical Code, Storm Water Code for consideration and adoption; and
WHEREAS, the Cook County Chapter 102 Buildings and Building Regulations, Article I and Article III, shall be replace and enacted with the fo...
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