The Department of Safety and Professional Services is telling local governments they cannot require repairs to homes and other dwellings conform to state building codes.

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Proposed revisions to the state’s electrical code won’t apply to one- and two-family dwellings until months after similar changes have taken effect for all other buildings. The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services announced this week that it has submitted to ...

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Even though Kyle Vesperman has been running an agriculture tourism business at his family farm since the early 2000s, he has had to avoid using a historic barn for wedding and similar events for fear of running afoul of Wisconsin’s building codes.

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With a state law that prohibited a number of Milwaukee's policies on rental properties and building code compliance, local officials not only lost what some of them deemed as a powerful means of combatting property violations in some of the most blighted parts of the city. They also were deprived of a source of revenue estimated to bring in $4.3 million next year.

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The state in February enacted Act 176, which created a prohibition against local ordinances that require routine inspections of rental units.

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Two years after Wisconsin got a uniform commercial-building code for the first time, a council is working to update the rules governing the construction of most structures that are open to the public.

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Despite the passage of a state budget amendment that would let Amish families and other groups cite religious objection to obtain waivers of parts of the state’s dwelling codes, some troubles remain for some Eau Claire families who want to build homes without smoke detectors, carbon-monoxide detectors or traditional plumbing and electrical fixtures.

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Religious waiver forms that are being distributed to all 72 counties in Wisconsin are expected to resolve a dispute over building codes between Eau Claire County and its Amish community.

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In November 2011, industry consultant Robert DuPont wrote a letter urging the head of the newly created state Department of Safety and Professional Services to continue the state’s tradition of using advisory councils to keep its regulatory and safety codes up to date.

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I recently spent a morning at the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services attending a meeting of the Uniform Dwelling Code Advisory Council.

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