SLS 15RS-690 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 58
BY SENATOR WHITE
SENATE. Designates May 2015 as Building Safety Month.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To recognize May 2015 as "Building Safety Month".
3 WHEREAS, for the past thirty-five years, the International Code Council has
4 celebrated advances in constructing safe, sustainable, affordable, and resilient buildings and
5 homes; and
6 WHEREAS, the International Code Council utilizes a governmental consensus
7 process that coordinates local, state, and federal officials with expertise in the building
8 environment to create and implement building codes of the highest quality to protect
9 Americans in the buildings where they live, learn, work, worship, and play; and
10 WHEREAS, the International Codes are the most widely adopted building safety,
11 energy, and fire prevention codes in the United States and include safeguards to protect the
12 public from natural disasters such as hurricanes, snow storms, tornadoes, wildfires, floods,
13 and earthquakes; and
14 WHEREAS, "Building Safety Month" was founded by the International Code
15 Council and is celebrated worldwide during the month of May as a public awareness
16 campaign to help individuals, families, and businesses understand the process of creating
17 safe and sustainable structures; and
18 WHEREAS, the campaign is presented by the International Code Council and its
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1 members, along with a diverse partnership of professionals from the building construction,
2 design and safety community, corporations, government agencies, professional associations,
3 and nonprofit organizations to support and bring awareness to the need for safe and
4 sustainable structures where citizens live, work, worship, and play; and
5 WHEREAS, the theme for 2015, "Resilient Communities Start with Building Codes",
6 encourages all Americans to raise awareness of the importance of building safety and
7 resilient construction, fire prevention, disaster mitigation, water safety and conversation,
8 energy efficiency, and new technologies in the construction industry; and
9 WHEREAS, Building Safety Month encourages appropriate steps to take to ensure
10 that the places we live, learn, work, worship, and play are safe and sustainable, and
11 recognizes that countless lives have been saved due to the implementation of safety codes
12 by local authorities and state agencies; and
13 WHEREAS, each year, in observance of Building Safety Month, Americans are
14 asked to consider projects to improve building safety and sustainability at home and in the
15 community, and to acknowledge the essential services provided by local and state building
16 departments, fire prevention bureaus, and federal agencies in protecting lives and property;
17 and
18 WHEREAS, all communities need building codes to protect their citizens from fires,
19 weather-related events, and structural collapse, and model building codes are society's best
20 way of protecting homes, offices, schools, manufacturing facilities, stores, and entertainment
21 venues from such disasters.
22 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
23 does hereby recognize May 2015 as "Building Safety Month".
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Nancy Vicknair.
DIGEST
SR 58 Original 2015 Regular Session White
Recognizes May 2015 as Building Safety Month.
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