West Virginia Building code adoption
Statewide mandatory minimum · 0 cities tracked · 0 with amendments.
Overview
Governance
Statewide
Cities tracked
0
The state sets a single mandatory edition for every jurisdiction. Cities may only adopt more restrictive amendments, never less.
Adopted building codes (state level)
Statewide mandatory minimum. Click a code to open its full adoption atlas across all 50 states.
City-level adoption
No per-city adoption data tracked for this state.
Quirks & watch-items
Quirks & watch-items
- West Virginia State Fire Commission (under firemarshal.wv.gov) is the adopting authority for both the State Building Code (87 CSR 4) and the State Fire Code (87 CSR 1). The two rule series travel on independent revision cycles.
- IFC is NOT adopted statewide — the State Fire Code (87 CSR 1) is built on an NFPA framework rather than the I-Codes; the 2022-08-01 ICC-Code adoption cycle that brought WV to 2018 IBC/IRC/IMC/IFGC/IPC/IPMC/IEBC + 2015 IECC + 2020 NEC explicitly excluded the IFC.
- Statutory authority: WV Code §29-3 (State Fire Commission and State Fire Marshal). Several legacy sections (§29-3-5 "Promulgation of rules and State Fire Code", §29-3-5b "Statewide Building Code") have been repealed; the rulemaking authority now lives in the surviving §29-3 provisions and is implemented through 87 CSR 1 / 87 CSR 4.
- Statewide adoption is "available for any jurisdiction that chooses to enforce codes" — code enforcement is local opt-in, but the state-adopted edition is the floor.