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