Bill > S3636

Introduced Session

This bill requires the owner of a parking structure to engage a professional engineer to inspect the structural integrity of the parking structure at least once every five years to ensure that the parking structure meets the loads and uses for which the parking structure was designed and is to be used. The professional engineer is required to prepare and deliver a report on the structural integrity of the parking structure to the owner within 30 business days of conducting an inspection. The owner of a parking structure is required to submit to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) a copy of a report on the structural integrity of a parking structure within 14 days of the owner's receipt of the professional engineer's report. The bill directs the Commissioner of Community Affairs to adopt rules and regulations to effectuate this bill's provisions. The bill also directs DCA to identify the parking structures in this State that are subject to the bill's provisions, and to notify the owner of each parking structure who has not submitted a report on the structural integrity of a parking structure of the requirements of this section. Under the bill, DCA is required to allow an owner an additional 30 days, following DCA's provision of notice, within which the owner may submit a report to the department. The bill also directs DCA to notify the owner of the parking structure of DCA's power to close a parking structure that has not been inspected. The bill empowers DCA to close a parking structure, or portions thereof, if either the parking structure fails inspection or the owner fails to submit a report to the department within the time afforded under this section. In this instance, the bill directs DCA to reopen the parking structure upon its receipt of an engineer's report indicating that the parking structure complies with the bill's structural integrity inspection requirements.

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Joe Cryan (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee (on 09/19/2024)

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