Historic Building Codes
Historic Building Codes
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Does anyone know how to find what building code was used during a certain year dating back to the 1960's specifically in Mississippi?
I tried the building department in the city where my buildings are located followed by state and then local library archives but to no avail.
I tried the building department in the city where my buildings are located followed by state and then local library archives but to no avail.






RE: Historic Building Codes
Maybe you can find something there. It really wasn't too much different from the UBC or ICBO codes of the time - if I remember correctly.
Kind of the reason they all combined into the IBC
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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This is tedious and you're going to have to sweet talk the town clerk (who doesn't owe you anything) to get this information. Also the town library should have a history of the minutes from the board which if you go through enough, you can work backwards and find this out.
The Building Department could have be a little more helpful. Have you tried meeting them face to face? Sometimes people are more helpful to someone standing there, than a phone caller.
I hope you want this real bad, because this sounds like a major pain.
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I've been resourcing JedClampett's Municode and the library archives both state and local. Unfortunately to no avail. This situation involves specifics due to attorneys and a real estate claim. The attorneys need the exact code used to justify that the building was built to code at that time period.
We are finding that local county and state do not keep good records. Plus I've been getting the dreaded runaround from the officials. Coupled with the fact that this is Katrina country (lost archives), state property and provinces in the region of these buildings have been split, is making this search quite problematic.
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Either the city/town/county didn't have one or it was not enforced.
Still goes on today. Although my state has adopted IBC - in about 90% of the rural areas there are no building departments or code enforcement. And the state has neither the money or manpower.