ARTICLE 4. Earthquake Hazardous Building Reconstruction

Article 4 added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 510.

§§ 19160–19168 · 10 sections

• § 19160 The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Because of the generally acknowledged fact that California will experience moderate to severe earthquakes in the…
• § 19161 (a) Each city, city and county, or county, may assess the earthquake hazard in its jurisdiction and identify buildings subject to its jurisdiction as being…
• § 19162 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 19100 or 19150 or any other provision of law, the governing body of any city, city and county, or county may, by…
• § 19163 Any local ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 19162 shall require the following: (a) Any seismic retrofit of any building identified pursuant to paragraph…
• § 19163.5 Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 129675) of Part 7 of Division 107, an ordinance adopted by a city, city and county, or…
• § 19164 Any city, city and county, or county may assign allowable working stresses to existing materials based on substantiating research data or engineering judgment.…
• § 19165 Any city, city and county, or county adopting an ordinance establishing building seismic retrofit standards for seismically hazardous buildings shall file for…
• § 19166 Any building identified as being a seismic hazard to life and retrofitted in compliance with building seismic retrofit standards adopted pursuant to this…
• § 19167 No city, city and county, or county, nor any employee of any such entity, shall be liable for damages for injury to persons or property, resulting from an…
• § 19168 Nothing in this article shall apply to those buildings and structures governed by the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 15000) of Division 12.5…