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. (a) "Building standard" means any rule, regulation, order,
or other requirement, including any amendment or repeal of that
requirement, that specifically regulates, requires, or forbids the
method of use, properties, performance, or types of materials used in
the construction, alteration, improvement, repair, or rehabilitation
of a building, structure, factory-built housing, or other
improvement to real property, including fixtures therein, and as
determined by the commission.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (d), "building standard"
includes architectural and design functions of a building or
structure, including, but not limited to, number and location of
doors, windows, and other openings, stress or loading characteristics
of materials, and methods of fabrication, clearances, and other
functions.
(c) "Building standard" includes a regulation or rule relating to
the implementation or enforcement of a building standard not
otherwise governed by statute, but does not include the adoption of
procedural ordinances by a city or other public agency relating to
civil, administrative, or criminal procedures and remedies available
for enforcing code violations.
(d) "Building standard" does not include any safety regulations
that any state agency is authorized to adopt relating to the
operation of machinery and equipment used in manufacturing,
processing, or fabricating, including, but not limited to,
warehousing and food processing operations, but not including safety
regulations relating to permanent appendages, accessories, apparatus,
appliances, and equipment attached to the building as a part
thereof, as determined by the commission.
(e) "Building standard" does not include temporary scaffoldings
and similar temporary safety devices and procedures that are used in
the erection, demolition, moving, or alteration of buildings.
(f) "Building standard" does not include any regulation relating
to the internal management of a state agency.
(g) "Building standard" does not include any regulation, rule,
order, or standard that pertains to mobilehomes, manufactured homes,
commercial coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, or
recreational vehicles.
(h) "Building standard" does not include any regulation, rule, or
order or standard that pertains to a mobilehome park, as defined by
Section 18214, or special occupancy park, as defined by Section
18862.43, except that "building standard" includes the construction
of permanent buildings and plumbing, electrical, and fuel gas
equipment and installations within permanent buildings in a
mobilehome park or special occupancy park. For purposes of this
subdivision, "permanent building" means any permanent structure
constructed in the mobilehome park or special occupancy park that is
a permanent facility under the control and ownership of the park
operator.
(i) "Building standard" does not include any regulation, rule,
order, or standard that pertains to mausoleums regulated under Part 5
(commencing with Section 9501) of Division 8.
(j) "Building standard" does not include any regulation adopted by
the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the Department of
Toxic Substances Control, the Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Board, or the State Water Resources Control Board
concerning the discharge of waste to land or the treatment, transfer,
storage, resource recovery, disposal, or recycling of the waste.