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2016 Annual Report Code Enforcement Office

As shown in the table below, there has been a general trend of activity in construction, an increase in new dwellings and decrease in other lighter construction. This past year was off in the permitting of sheds, decks, pools, and miscellaneous permits. The State of Maine (Legislature) and the State Fire Marshal’s Office is moving forward in adopting updated codes to the 2015 IBC/IRC; from the current 2009 adopted in 2010. The Maine Building Officials and Inspectors Association (MBOIA) offered training on the changes to the proposed new editions of the codes. Sessions have been and will be attended on the updated codes. Legislation is in committee drafting the final adoption and exemptions to the Maine Uniform Building Codes, likely to be adopted before the end of the year. The code office is also a point of coordination with the Pleasant Point Park Committee and a group of Eagle Scout candidates. They have begun marking the walking trails in the park and have plans to make trail improvements for existing foot bridges and path bridges in wet and muddy areas of the trail in the spring and summer of 2017.