Sec. 8.5. (a) The commission shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 for outdoor event equipment at outdoor performances to protect the safety of persons at the outdoor performances. The commission may:

(1) exempt small assemblies of outdoor event equipment, as defined by the commission, from some or all fees or other requirements that otherwise would apply to outdoor event equipment under a rule adopted under this section or another building law; or

(2) establish alternative procedures, fees, or other requirements, or any combination, for small assemblies of outdoor event equipment, as defined by the commission.

     (b) The commission may adopt temporary rules in the manner provided for the adoption of emergency rules under IC 4-22-2-37.1 to carry out subsection (a), including temporary rules concerning a schedule of fees for design releases or inspections, or both. A temporary rule adopted under this subsection expires on the earliest of the following:

(1) The date specified in the temporary rule.

(2) The date another temporary rule adopted under this subsection or a rule adopted under IC 4-22-2 supersedes or repeals the previously adopted temporary rule.

(3) January 1, 2016.

     (c) Subject to this section, a city, town, or county that regulated outdoor event equipment before March 15, 2012, under an ordinance adopted before March 15, 2012, may, if the ordinance is in effect on March 15, 2012, continue to regulate outdoor event equipment under the ordinance after March 14, 2012, in the same manner that the city, town, or county applied the ordinance before March 15, 2012. However, a statewide code of fire safety laws or building laws governing outdoor event equipment that is adopted by the commission under this section after March 14, 2012, takes precedence over any part of a city, town, or county ordinance that is in conflict with the commission’s adopted code. The ordinances to which this section applies include Chapter 536 of the Revised Code of the Consolidated City and County Indianapolis/Marion, Indiana Codified through Ordinance No. 36, 2011, passed August 15, 2011. (Supp. No. 27). A city, town, or county to which this subsection applies need not be certified or approved under IC 22-15-3-1 or another law to continue to regulate outdoor event equipment after March 14, 2012.

     (d) This subsection applies to cities, towns, and counties described in subsection (c) and any other city, town, or county that, after March 14, 2012, adopts an ordinance governing outdoor event equipment that is approved by the commission or the state building commissioner. The city, town, or county shall require compliance with:

(1) the rules adopted under this section;

(2) orders issued under IC 22-13-2-11 that grant a variance to the rules adopted under this section;

(3) orders issued under IC 22-12-7 that apply the rules adopted under this section; and

(4) a written interpretation of the rules adopted under this section binding on the unit under IC 22-13-5-3 or IC 22-13-5-4;

on both private and public property located within the boundaries of the city, town, or county, including, in the case of a consolidated city, the state fairgrounds. This subsection does not limit the authority of a unit (as defined in IC 36-1-2-23) under IC 36-7-2-9 to enforce building laws and orders and written interpretations related to building laws.

As added by P.L.92-2012, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.142-2013, SEC.5; P.L.218-2014, SEC.7.