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AN ORDINANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, UPDATING THE STANDARD TECHNICAL CODES TO REFLECT THE LATEST EDITIONS. WHEREAS, Indian River County has adopted standard technical codes for its building codes; and WHEREAS, these technical codes are updated and new additions issued from time to time pursuant to Section 553.73, F.S.; and WHEREAS, the current required updated codes are set forth herein, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, that: SECTION 1. AMENDMENT SECTION 401.01. Section 401.01 is hereby partially amended to reflect deletion of the 1994 editions and the addition of the new editions of the standard technical codes as follows: Standard Building Code (SBC), 1997 Edition' Standard Mechanical Code (SMC), 1997 Edition Standard Gas Code (SGC), 1997 Edition 1 Including the engineering design criteria contained in Section 1606 and excluding Chapter 11, "Accessibility for People with Physical Disabilities" and Appendix E, "Energy Conservation". Section 1606 of the Standard Building Code and Section 2313 of the 1996 Revisions of the Standard Building Code for wood frame construction shall be the minimum wind load criteria used for the design of all one and two family dwellings. Compliance with the engineering design criteria contained in Section 1606 may be achieved by using the Southern Building Code Congress International Inc., Standard SSDT 10-96 for Hurricane Resistant Residential Construction, the Wood Products Promotion Council - High Wind Project, Guide to Wood Construction in High Wind Areas "the Builder's Guide", or the Wood Frame Construction Manual for One and Two Family Dwellings, 1995 High Wind Edition. The Builders' Guide implementation shall be limited to the construction and design of wood frame single story buildings with wind speed design parameters of 100 and 110 miles per hour. The manual is limited to residential buildings of three stories or less, a mean roof height not exceeding 33 feet and wind speed design parameters between 90 and 120 miles per hour.