Explanation
Background: The Columbus Building Code currently requires that a contractor's license or registration be automatically revoked upon finding a contractor guilty of a third offense as outlined in the Columbus Building Code. However, the code provides no further guidance or discretion as to the contractors permit volume, type, or the nature and time frame between prior violations, before a license or registration is automatically revoked. The repeal of this code language would allow the appropriate and already established boards of review to not only evaluate the merits of the cases and complaints brought before them, but to also have the discretion as to the penalty that should be attached to each individual case reviewed under their authority.
Also included in these code changes are updates to two definitions contained in Chapter 4101 of the Columbus Building Code in order to correctly reflect changes made in 2010 with the creation of the new Department of Building and Zoning Services.
These code changes were reviewed at the February 15, 2011, monthly meeting of the Columbus Building Commission and were approved and recommend for adoption by City Council.
Fiscal Impact: None
Title
To amend sections 4101.02, 4114.537, 4114.727, and 4114.937 of the Columbus Building Code, Title 41, in order to correct definitions and to repeal code language that requires the automatic revocation of a contractors license or registration upon the finding of a third offense by a contractor review board in order to provide these boards with better discretion.
Body
WHEREAS, the Columbus Building Code currently requires that a contractor's license or registration be automatically revoked upon finding a contractor guilty of a third offense as outlined in the Columbus Building Code, Title 41; and
WHEREAS, the code provides no further guidance or discretion as to the contractors permit volume, type, or the nature and time frame between prior violations, before a license or registration is automatically revoked; and
WHEREAS, the repeal of this code language would allow the appropriate and already established boards of review to not only evaluate the merits of the cases and complaints brought before them, but to also have the discretion as to the penalty the should be attached to each individual case reviewed under their authority; and
WHEREAS, also included in these code changes are updates to two definitions contained in Chapter 4101 of the Columbus Building Code in order to correctly reflect changes made in 2010 with the creation of the new Department of Building and Zoning Services; and
WHEREAS, these code changes were reviewed at the February 15, 2011, monthly meeting of the Columbus Building Commission and were approved and recommended for adoption by City Council; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the Columbus City Codes, 1959, are hereby amended as shown in the attached file.
(See Attachment 1)
SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period provided by law.