Section 41-23-85

Board to serve in advisory capacity to division; functions of board; division to be responsible for considering recommendations.

(a) The board shall serve in an advisory capacity to the division with respect to all matters pertaining to the acceptance, adoption, and implementation of the Model Energy Code. In so doing, the board may perform any of the following functions:

(1) Review, make recommendations, and determine whether the most current edition of the Model Energy Code should be adopted by the units of local government.

(2) Evaluate, assess, advise, and counsel the division and the units of local government, on residential energy codes and the impact of those codes upon the economy and the environment.

(3) Solicit and enlist the cooperation of all appropriate private-sector and community-based organizations to implement the purpose of this article.

(4) Make recommendations to the division for the enactment of additional legislation as it deems necessary which proposes to further enhance the capabilities of the state and the units of local government in accepting, adopting, and implementing the Model Energy Code, and in meeting the need for increasing residential energy resources and conservation due to trends in residential population and the change in technical requirements of the economy.

(5) Make continuing studies, on its own initiative or upon the request of the division, of the residential energy resources, conservation, and consumption needs throughout the state, and issue those reports to the division and to the units of local government as may result from its studies.

(6) Submit to the chief of the division, on an annual basis, a written report covering the activities of the board.

(7) Make rules and regulations for the conduct of its board meetings, procedures, and execution of the purpose, functions, powers, and duties delegated to it by this article.

(8) Conduct a program of public information in order to inform the units of local government and the citizens of the state on matters of importance to residential energy resources, conservation, and consumption.

(9) Identify any and all resources needed or required for the board to implement the purpose, functions, powers, and duties of this article.

(b) The division shall be responsible for considering and taking action upon any and all recommendations to which the board may from time to time submit.

(Acts 1995, No. 95-537, p. 1095, §7.)