Legal Documents of Sweetwater

Code of Sweetwater

Sweetwater
Title 12 : Building, Utility, etc. Codes
Chapter 4 : Residential Code

12-402 : Modifications.

  1. Definitions. Wherever the residential code refers to the "building official" it shall mean the person appointed or designated by the mayor and board of commissioners to administer and enforce the provisions of the residential code. Wherever the "chief appointing authority" is referred to it shall mean the mayor and board of commissioners.
  2. Automatic sprinkler system standards. Section R 313 pertaining to single family and two (2) family dwellings is hereby deleted, however, sprinklers are required for a townhouse if:
    1. four (4) or more units, 
    2. three (3) units with five thousand (5,000) or more total square feet, or
    3. three (3) units with less than five thousand (5,000) total square feet and three (3) or fewer stories if not separated by a two (2) hour fire wall. (1982 Code, § 4-502, modified, as replaced by Ord. #896, June 2013, and amended by Ord. #913, April 2014)
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland