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



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



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



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



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



(A)  Emergency shelters built to comply with
hurricane resistant criteria, including enhanced hurricane protection areas
capable of withstanding a five hundred-year hurricane event as well as other
storms and natural hazards; and



(B)  Essential government facilities requiring
continuity of operations; and



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