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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86342</law_id><section_number>36-105.5</section_number><catch_line>Enforcement of Building Code on Indian reservations</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="36">Housing</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Uniform Statewide Building Code</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Recognizing the unique relationship between the Commonwealth and certain of its state-recognized Indian tribes, and notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, neither the Commonwealth nor any locality therein is responsible for the enforcement of the provisions of the Uniform Statewide <span class="dictionary">Building Code</span> (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/36-97/">36-97</a> et seq.) on any Indian reservation recognized by the Commonwealth whereupon a state-recognized Indian tribe has, by duly enacted tribal <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, adopted the Uniform Statewide <span class="dictionary">Building Code</span> and (i) assumed sole responsibility for existing <span class="dictionary">buildings</span> and new <span class="dictionary">construction</span> on the reservation and (ii) for purposes of enforcing the <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, retained firms or individuals to function as the building official on such reservation. <a id="paragraph-309241" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/36-105.5/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing in this section shall be construed to confer or infer responsibility or liability on any <span class="dictionary">party</span> for any action undertaken prior to July 1, 2015. <a id="paragraph-309242" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/36-105.5/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2015, c. 135.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
