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Current Rulemaking Activity
The Department's Administrative Rules Docket is the formal
legal presentation of the status of rulemaking actions by the
Department of Public Safety. It's format is not friendly to
all potential users, in that it is primarily designed to meet
legal requirements. This page supplements the docket with information
regarding recent and upcoming rulemaking activities of the
Department in a format which may be more useful to some of
those interested in or affected by the Department's rules.
The information presented below is divided between recent
and upcoming activities. Anyone with questions regarding this
material or wishing to comment or participate in any of the
upcoming activities may contact the Department via mail, phone
(515-281-5524) or electronic mail (admrule@dps.state.ia.us).
Recent Activities/Actions
- The
Building Code Commissioner has adopted
a new State Building Code, based, with some exceptions, on
the adoption by reference of the International
Building Codes and related codes. The new State Building
Code
takes effect on April 1, 2006.
- The
Building Code Commisisoner has also adopted
a State Historic Building
Code, which takes effect on April 1, 2006.
- Revisions
to the rules on the Iowa Sex Offender Registry have
been adopted and are effective on January 1, 2006.
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Rules governing the DNA Database administered by the Division of Criminal Investigation wereadopted
emergency and effective July 1,
2005, and have also
been published in a Notice
of Intended Action. A public hearing
on these rules was held on September 12, 2005.
- The
Fire Marshal has adopted
rules establishing fire
safety requirements for assembly occupancies and
allowing compliance with the International
Fire Code as an alternative to rules of the Fire Marshal, except
for health care
occupancies, in local jurisdictions which have adopted the International
Fire Code and enforce it locally.
- Rules
enabling retail dispensing of ethanol blend fuels
with greater than 10 percent
concentrations of ethanol have been adopted
by the
Fire Marshal and were effective on October 1, 2005
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