This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Sacramento County
Building Code" (hereinafter referred to as "this Code").
(SCC 1710 § 4, 2022)
The purpose of this Code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, installation, quality of materials, use, occupancy, location of all buildings and structures within this jurisdiction, and certain equipment specifically regulated herein. Group R-3 occupancies as classified in Section 1.1.3 of the California Residential Code are not regulated by this Code but are regulated by the Sacramento County Residential Code as adopted and amended in Sacramento County Code Chapter
16.10.
(SCC 1710 § 4, 2022)
The 2022
California Building Code, Title 24, Part 2 of the
California Code of Regulations, a portion of the
California Building Standards Code as defined in the California State
Health and Safety Code Sections 17922 and 18901 et seq., (hereinafter referred to as the "Building Code") and Building Code Appendices C (Group U Agricultural Buildings) and O (Emergency Housing), and any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto are hereby adopted and incorporated by reference herein. Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, Chapters
16.02 and
16.10 of the Sacramento County Code, all construction, alteration, moving, demolition, repair and use of any building or structure within this jurisdiction shall be made in conformance with the Building Code and any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
(SCC 1710 § 4, 2022)
As used in this chapter, the word "Code" means the Sacramento
County Building Code.
Section AO102.1 "Definitions," the following definitions contained
therein are amended as follows:
"Emergency Housing.
Housing in a permanent or temporary structure(s), occupied
during a declaration of state of emergency, local emergency, or shelter
crisis, and constructed or established by the County of Sacramento
in a public facility, as defined by
Government Code Section 8698(c).
Emergency housing may include, but is not limited to, buildings and
structures constructed in accordance with the California Building
Standards Code; and emergency sleeping cabins, emergency transportable
housing units, and tents constructed in accordance with this appendix."
"Emergency Housing Facilities.
On-site common use facilities supporting emergency housing
constructed or established by the County of Sacramento in a public
facility, as defined by
Government Code Section 8698(c). Emergency
housing facilities include, but are not limited to, kitchen areas,
toilets, showers and bathrooms with running water. The use of emergency
housing facilities is limited exclusively to the occupants of the
emergency housing, personnel involved in operating the housing, and
other emergency personnel."
(SCC 1710 § 4, 2022)