Resolutions

Whereas Section 5 of The Uniform Building and Accessibility Standards Act allows municipalities to appoint persons holding a building official’s license as a building official; and

Whereas smaller municipalities frequently request the service of a building inspection business, rather than directly hiring building officials; and

Whereas turnover within building inspection companies require municipalities to regularly appoint new officials within the contracted company to provide services, despite having no direct human resource responsibilities within that company, causing unnecessary additional work for councils and CAOs;

Therefore be it resolved that SUMA advocate the Ministry of Government Relations to amend The Uniform Building and Accessibility Standards Act to allow appoints of qualified companies as building officials and put the onus on companies to ensure that their staff are suitably qualified for the position.

Acts affected: The Uniform Building and Accessibility Standards Act

Sectors/Regions affected: ALL