[§107-25]  State building code;requirements.  There is established a state building code applicable to allconstruction in the State of Hawaii.  The state building code shall include:

(1)  The latest edition of the state fire code asadopted by the state fire council;

(2)  The latest edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code,as copyrighted and published by the International Association of Plumbing andMechanical Officials, including its appendices;

(3)  The latest edition of the International BuildingCode, as published by the International Code Council;

(4)  Hawaii design standards implementing the criteriapursuant to Act 5, Special Session Laws of Hawaii, 2005, as applicable to:

(A)  Emergency shelters built to comply withhurricane resistant criteria, including enhanced hurricane protection areascapable of withstanding a five hundred-year hurricane event as well as otherstorms and natural hazards; and

(B)  Essential government facilities requiringcontinuity of operations; and

(5)  Code provisions based on nationally publishedcodes or standards that include, but are not limited to, residential andhurricane resistive standards for residential construction, fire, elevator,electrical, plumbing, mechanical, flood and tsunami, existing buildings, and energyconservation standards for building design and construction, and onsite sewagedisposal. [L 2007, c 82, pt of §2]