Bill 13 explained in plain English
Ontario Forestry Industry Revitalization Act (Height of Wood Frame Buildings), 2013
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 13 amends the Building Code Act, 1992, to ensure that buildings up to six storeys high are not prohibited from using wood frame construction.
This bill amends the Building Code Act, 1992. It states that the building code cannot prevent buildings that are six storeys or less from being constructed with wood frames. However, the building code can still set requirements for wood frame buildings or prohibit certain types of wood frame buildings. The Act also specifies its short title as the Ontario Forestry Industry Revitalization Act (Height of Wood Frame Buildings), 2013, and states it will come into force four months after receiving Royal Assent.
- Amends the Building Code Act, 1992.
- Prohibits the building code from preventing buildings of six storeys or less from using wood frame construction.
- Clarifies that the building code can still impose requirements on wood frame buildings or prohibit specific classes of wood frame buildings.
- Establishes the short title of the Act.
- Sets a commencement date for the Act.
- Builders
- Architects
- Building code officials
- Owners of wood frame buildings
- Forestry industry
- The building code cannot prohibit wood frame construction for buildings six storeys or less.
- The building code can still impose requirements on wood frame construction.
- The building code can still prohibit specified classes of buildings from being of wood frame construction.
- The Act comes into force four months after the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The specific 'specified classes of buildings' that the building code can prohibit from wood frame construction are not detailed in this Act.
- The specific 'requirements' that the building code can impose on wood frame construction are not detailed in this Act.
Allows buildings up to six storeys to be made of wood frame construction, prohibiting the building code from disallowing this.
Source: Section 1
The building code will no longer be able to prohibit wood frame construction for buildings up to six storeys in height, but it can still impose requirements or prohibit specific classes of wood frame buildings.
Source: Section 30.1 (1) and (2) of the Building Code Act, 1992, as added by this Bill
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