5003.8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law (Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 18901) of Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code), the director, the department, or the State Park and Recreation Commission shall not adopt nor publish a building standard, as defined in Section 18909 of the Health and Safety Code, unless Sections 18930, 18933, 18938, 18940, 18943, 18944, and 18945 of the Health and Safety Code are expressly excepted in the statute under which the authority to adopt rules, regulations, or orders is delegated. Any building standard adopted in violation of this section has no force or effect. Any building standard adopted before January 1, 1980, pursuant to this code and not expressly excepted by statute from those provisions of the State Building Standards Law shall remain in effect only until January 1, 1985, or until adopted, amended, or superseded by provisions published in the State Building Standards Code, whichever occurs sooner.
(Added by renumbering Section 5003.2 (as added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1152) by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 166.)
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