From what I understand, Utah is one of roughly 12 states that still have not adopted licensing requirements for home inspectors.
Is the shoe about to drop?
From what I can make of this, it directs the UBC or the Uniform Building Code Commission to:
Collect data pertaining to building inspectors;
Publish gathered data on an annual basis.
Report the data annually to the Legislature.
I haven’t read it fully but it appears that this is directed at third party building inspectors that are being used to supplant the lack of government building inspectors due to the high volume of building.
Speaks heavily of code enforcement.
I guess we will see what shakes out from it.
Morning James. Hope to find you well.
Building Codes are modified continually though public review, technical analysis, and governmental approval. I don’t think a buggy man is doing anything nefariously. Its out in the open.
I think a UTAH legislative body was created to, collect data pertaining to building inspections and the building inspection industry as a whole.
I posted the high lighted provisions below.
This Bill, or Proposal for a new law/s, or a Modification/s to an existing ones, directs the (Uniform Building Code Commission) to:
Here is where it gets murky for me. *The UBC was replaced by the (IBC) in 2000, subsequently published by the (ICC) or International Code Council, a merger of three predecessor organizations which published three different building codes.
That’s a lot to consume.
Collect data pertaining to building inspectors; I take that to mean; Generalists & Specialists.
Publish said gathered data on an annual basis; and report the data annually to the Legislature; (the legislative body in the state of Utah).
Expand the scope for the Division of Professional Licensing to spend money from surcharges;
Adds unlawful and unprofessional conduct provisions for licensed building inspectors acting as qualified building officials; eg: fines, license suspension or revocation, and even criminal charges.
Requires a local regulator to hire or contract with a qualified building official; and makes technical and conforming changes.
Hope that helps.
Yeah my point is that it appears to directed at building code inspectors and not home inspectors per se.
I’m not opposed to licensing as there are way too many people with little or no knowledge about construction running around pretending to be experienced home inspectors. I just don’t think this current activity is directed at our industry.
At the same time whenever the government sticks their nose into anything it tends to get unnecessary complicated and thus more expensive.