Updated : 04/22/2024

Overview

Osage City, KS has adopted the 2009 International Building Code, with amendments. Osage City, KS Muni. Codes § 10-144 (IBC adoption) and § 10-145 through § 10-160 (IBC amendments). No online IRC adoption was located.

Helpful resources for Osage City, Kansas include the following.

• PLRB, Ordinance and Law Coverage Discussion for Kansas

Residential Building Code

Kansas has yet to adopt a statewide residential code. Local laws will control.See PLRB, Kansas Building Codes for more information on state level codes.

Osage City adopted the 2009 IRC, locally. Note that adoptions usually come with amendments. So, it is important to review those amendments in addition to the unamended model code.

You can find a copy of the model code here.

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See Muni. Code(Osage City, KS Municipal Code)

...Adoption not found...

Drip Edge

Drip Edge: no

Ice Barrier

Are ice barriers required for Osage City ? No
Comments:

While no formal online code was located regarding an ice barrier, Jim Welch, Code Administrator of Osage, KS confirmed it is not required. (Per email dated 11/27/19.)

Government Officials

Comments

We were unable to locate any formal adoption of a residential code by Osage City, KS. We reached out to the department and received no response regarding this matter. Some jurisdictions adopt the IRC by way of reference in the administrative chapters of the IBC. This could be the case for Osage City, KS.

101.2 Scope. The provisions of this code shall apply to the construction, alteration, movement, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, removal and demolition of every building or structure or any appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures.

Exception:

Detached one- and two-family dwellings and multiple single-family dwellings (townhouses) not more than three stories above grade plane in height with a separate means of egress and their accessory structures shall comply with the International Residential Code.

2009 IBC § 101.2 (scope). Osage City, KS Muni. Codes § 10-145.1 through § 10-160 (IBC amendments). 

Commercial Building Code

Osage City adopted the 2009 IBC, locally. Note that adoptions usually come with amendments. So, it is important to review those amendments in addition to the unamended model code.

You can find a copy of the code here.You can find information about amendments to the model code here.

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2006 IBC with Kansas amendments(Osage City, KS Sec. 10-280. - International Plumbing Code adopted.)

...and certain equipment specifically regulated therein, that certain plumbing code known as the International Plumbing Code, recommended and published by the International Code Council, being particularly the 2009 edition not including appendices thereto, except as amended in this article of the Osage City Code, of which not fewer than...

Comments

For information regarding Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems see Osage City, KS Muni. Codes § 10-150.1, § 10-150.1.5 and § 10-150-2.

Existing Buildings

Osage City, KS did not adopt the IEBC, therefore Chapter 34 of the IBC would apply.

102.6 Existing structures. The legal occupancy of any structure existing on the date of adoption of this code shall be permitted to continue without change, except as is specifically covered in this code or as is deemed necessary by the building official for the general safety and welfare of the occupants and the public. Osage City, KS Muni. Code § 10-145.2.

 

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