Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 12-0564.01 Jason Gelender x4330 SENATE BILL 12-081
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Grantham,  Renfroe, Mitchell, Cadman, Scheffel, Brophy, King K., Lundberg, Neville,
 Roberts, White
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Local Government
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a prohibition on a local government requiring
            the installation of sprinklers in a single-family
            dwelling.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill prohibits a county or municipality from requiring
       sprinklers to be installed in single-family dwellings.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 30-28-212 as
       follows:
            30-28-212.  Sprinkler installation requirement - prohibition.
       (1)  Notwithstanding any provision of the uniform building code
       or any other code to the contrary, on and after the effective
       date of this subsection (1), a county shall not require the
       installation of sprinklers in any single-family dwelling.
            (2)  For purposes of this section, "single-family dwelling"
       means an improved real property used or intended to be used as
       a residence that contains one dwelling unit.
            SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 31-15-603 as
       follows:
            31-15-603.  Sprinkler installation requirement - prohibition.
       (1)  Notwithstanding any provision of the uniform building code
       or any other code to the contrary, on and after the effective
       date of this subsection (1), a municipality shall not require the
       installation of sprinklers in any single-family dwelling.
            (2)  For purposes of this section, "single-family dwelling"
       means an improved real property used or intended to be used as
       a residence that contains one dwelling unit.
            SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       7, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.