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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 62
BY SENATOR MARTINY
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To recognize May 2017 as Building Safety Month.
WHEREAS, the Building Safety Month campaign is a public awareness effort
designed to help individuals, families, and businesses understand what it takes to create safe
and sustainable structures; and
WHEREAS, this campaign is sponsored by the Building Officials Association of
Louisiana and stresses that Louisiana and cities across this great state are committed to
recognizing that the growth and strength of both depend on the safety and economic value
of homes, buildings, and infrastructure built in the state; and
WHEREAS, the economic benefits of having safe buildings and infrastructure
throughout Louisiana are crucial to growing the state and maintaining a healthy and vibrant
economy; and
WHEREAS, the alert and watchful guardians of this structural integrity are building
safety and fire prevention officials, architects, engineers, builders, tradespeople, design
professionals, laborers, and all in the construction industry who work continuously to ensure
the safe construction of buildings and infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, these people involved in the construction industry are members of the
International Code Council, a United States based organization which brings together local,
state, and federal officials that are experts in the construction environment to create and
implement the highest possible standards for the protection of citizens of the nation; and
WHEREAS, the entire nation benefits economically and technologically from using
these International Codes that are considered and refined by a nationwide, voluntary
consensus codes and standards developing organization, thus enabling our government to
avoid the high cost and complexity of developing and maintaining their own codes; and
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WHEREAS, these International Codes allow experts to create and implement the
highest quality codes to protect citizens of the nation and Louisiana in the buildings where
citizens live, learn, work, worship, and play; and
WHEREAS, a major aim of the International Code Council is to ensure that buildings
and infrastructure are built to withstand both man-made and natural disasters, including
floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, recreational land fires, and earthquakes, the first three of
which have proven devastating to much of Louisiana and many of her citizens in merely the
last fourteen months; and
WHEREAS, Building Safety Month is sponsored by the International Codes Council
to remind the public about the critical role of elected officials as guardians of public safety
who assure the citizens of safe, efficient, and livable buildings that are essential to keeping
the United States great and an integral power on the world stage.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
recognize May 2017 as Building Safety Month.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Rick
Foster on behalf of the Building Officials Association of Louisiana.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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