Act No. 478

Public Acts of 2018

Approved by the Governor

December 24, 2018

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 27, 2018

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 27, 2019

STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

Introduced by Senator Horn

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1207

AN ACT to amend 1972 PA 230, entitled “An act to create a construction code commission and prescribe its functions; to authorize the director to promulgate rules with recommendations from each affected board relating to the construction, alteration, demolition, occupancy, and use of buildings and structures; to prescribe energy conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings; to provide for statewide approval of premanufactured units; to provide for the testing of new devices, materials, and techniques for the construction of buildings and structures; to define the classes of buildings and structures affected by the act; to provide for administration and enforcement of the act; to create a state construction code fund; to prohibit certain conduct; to establish penalties, remedies, and sanctions for violations of the act; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide an appropriation,” (MCL 125.1501 to 125.1531) by adding section 13g.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 13g. (1) Except as otherwise provided by the Michigan rehabilitation code for existing buildings, where an alteration affects the accessibility to, or contains, an area of primary function, the route to the primary function area shall be accessible. The accessible route to the primary function area shall include toilet facilities and drinking fountains serving the area of primary function. The costs of providing the accessible route are not required to exceed 20% of the total costs of the alterations affecting the area of primary function.

(2) As used in this section, “alteration” and “primary function” mean those terms as defined in the Michigan rehabilitation code for existing buildings or as otherwise provided by the director by rule.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor