FIRST REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DIEHL (Sponsor), JONES (89), BARNES, RICHARDSON, LANT, WHITE, FRANZ, GOSEN, FREDERICK, LONG, ELMER, FRAKER, HOUGHTON, REDMON, NANCE, FUNDERBURK, SCHNEIDER, KOENIG, BRATTIN AND SCHARNHORST (Co-sponsors).
0114L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 67.281 as enacted by senate substitute no. 2 for senate committee substitute for house bill no. 103, ninety-fifth general assembly, first regular session, and section 67.281 as enacted by conference committee substitute for senate bill no. 513, ninety-fifth general assembly, first regular session, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to fire sprinkler system installation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 67.281 as enacted by senate substitute no. 2 for senate committee substitute for house bill no. 103, ninety-fifth general assembly, first regular session, and section 67.281 as enacted by conference committee substitute for senate bill no. 513, ninety-fifth general assembly, first regular session, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.281, to read as follows:
67.281. A builder of single-family dwellings or residences or multi-unit dwellings of four or fewer units shall offer to any purchaser on or before the time of entering into the purchase contract the option, at the purchaser's cost, to install or equip fire sprinklers in the dwelling, residence, or unit. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no purchaser of such a single-family dwelling, residence, or multi-unit dwelling shall be denied the right to choose or decline to install a fire sprinkler system in such dwelling or residence being purchased by any code, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, or resolution by any county or other political subdivision. Any county or other political subdivision shall provide in any such code, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, or resolution the mandatory option for purchasers to have the right to choose and the requirement that builders offer to purchasers the option to purchase fire sprinklers in connection with the purchase of any single family dwelling, residence, or multi- unit dwelling of four or fewer units. [The provisions of this section shall expire on December 31, 2011.]
[67.281. On or before the date of entering into a purchase contract, any builder of single-family dwellings or residences or multifamily dwellings of four or fewer units shall offer to any purchaser the option to install or equip such dwellings or residences with a fire sprinkler system at the purchaser's cost. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no code, order, ordinance, rule, regulation, or resolution adopted by any political subdivision shall be construed to deny any purchaser of any such dwelling or residence the option to choose or decline the installation or equipping of such dwelling or residence with a fire sprinkler system. Any code, order, ordinance, rule, regulation, or resolution adopted by any political subdivision shall include a provision requiring each builder to provide each purchaser of any such dwelling or residence with the option of purchasing a fire sprinkler system for such dwelling or residence. This section shall expire on December 31, 2011.]
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