Construction: code; single exit stairway in multiple-family dwellings with not more than 6 levels; allow under certain conditions, the official text

Act No. 29

Public Acts of 2026

Approved by the Governor

July 21, 2026

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 21, 2026

EFFECTIVE
DATE: July 21, 2026

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2026

Introduced by Reps. Wooden, Longjohn, Fairbairn, Martus,
Hoskins, Andrews, Aragona, Pohutsky, Rheingans, Markkanen, Grant, Liberati,
McKinney, Beson and VanderWall

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5571

AN ACT to amend 1972 PA 230,
entitled “An act to create a construction code commission and prescribe its
functions; to authorize the director to promulgate rules with recommendations
from each affected board relating to the construction, alteration, demolition,
occupancy, and use of buildings and structures; to prescribe energy
conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings; to provide
for statewide approval of premanufactured units; to provide for the testing of
new devices, materials, and techniques for the construction of buildings and
structures; to define the classes of buildings and structures affected by the
act; to provide for administration and enforcement of the act; to create a
state construction code fund; to prohibit certain conduct; to establish
penalties, remedies, and sanctions for violations of the act; to repeal acts
and parts of acts; and to provide an appropriation,” (MCL 125.1501 to 125.1531)
by adding section 4k.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec. 4k. Section 4j does not apply
if the department incorporates by reference the International Code Council’s
publication of single interior exit stairway for a multiple-family dwelling
that is 4 or more levels above grade plane into the code.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not
take effect unless House Bill No. 5570 of the 103rd Legislature is enacted
into law.

This act is ordered to take
immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor