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Osage City, Kansas Building Codes

Updated : 12/19/2024

Overview

For Osage City, Kansas, no local adoption and no local amendments of a residential code were located. Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2009 International Building Code (IBC), with amendments. Osage City, KS, Muni. Code § 10-144 (adoption) and § 10-145 through § 10-160 (amendments). For Osage City, Kansas, no local adoption and no local amendments of an existing building code were located.

Helpful resources for Osage City, Kansas include the following.

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 no code locally that we know of after conducting researchYou can find a copy of the code here.

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

...Adoption not found...

Drip Edge

Drip Edge: undetermined

Ice Barrier

Are ice barriers required for Osage City ? Undetermined
Comments:

No amendments to Table R301.2(1) were found in the municipal code or city website; Therefore, it is unclear if ice barrier underlayment is required.

Government Officials
Last Name First Name Title E-mail Phone Note
Welch Jim Code Administrator/Building Inspector codeadmin@osagecity.com 785/528-3082

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).

Existing Buildings

Existing buildings, meaning buildings that were built in accordance to code at the time of construction, typically merit extra consideration in a current updated code.

For Osage City, Kansas, no local adoption and no local amendments of an existing building code were located.

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

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2009 International Building Code (IBC), with amendments. Osage City, KS, Muni. Code § 10-144 (adoption) and § 10-145 through § 10-160 (amendments). 

Existing Buildings

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

 

 

Other Building Codes

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2005 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70). Osage City, KS, Muni. Code § 10-175 (adoption).

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2009 International Mechanical Code (IMC), with amendments. Osage City, KS, Muni. Codes § 10-248 (adoption) and § 10-249.1 through § 10-251 (amendments).

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2009 International Plumbing Code (IPC), with amendments. Osage City, KS, Muni. Codes § 10-280 (adoption) and § 10-281.1 through § 10-288 (amendments).

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2009 International Fuel Gas Code. Osage City, KS, Muni. Codes § 10-290 (adoption) and § 10-291.1 through § 10-293 (amendments).

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 2003 Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code (NFPA 30). Osage City, KS, Muni. Code § 10-485 (adoption).

Osage City, Kansas, adopted the 1994 Uniform Fire Code. Osage City, KS, Muni. Codes § 16-31 (adoption) and § 16-33 (amendments).