Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 60. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS

Part 2. State Building Code

When State Building Code Applies -- Health Care Facility And Public Health Center Doors

50-60-205. When state building code applies -- health care facility and public health center doors. (1) If a county, city, or town does not adopt a building code as provided in 50-60-301, the state building code applies within the county, city, or town and the state will enforce the code in these areas.

(2) Any provision of a building code requiring the installation or maintenance of self-closing or automatic closing corridor doors to patient rooms does not apply to health care facilities as defined in 50-5-101 or to a public health center as defined in 7-34-2102.

History: En. Sec. 9, Ch. 366, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 226, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 504, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 69-2112(2); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 168, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 93, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 443, L. 2003.