In California, and I’m looking up Title 24 requirements (building standards) in the Code of Regulations. I couldnt find “Titles” while doing a code search. Are these seperate bodies of codes? (Apologies if this is not the right sub. Feel free to point me in the right direction!)
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In general, the State Laws are the things that the legislature passed. Those tend to be fairly high level (it’s not a good idea to have legislatures write detailed rule, they don’t know what they’re doing by discipline). The laws often tell the various state agencies to do something…the agencies then write regulations to enact the intent of the law. The regulations contain all the details you need to follow.
Just to confuse things, CA calls their state laws codes. You can access those here:
[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml)
The Code of regulations is here: [https://oal.ca.gov/publications/ccr/](https://oal.ca.gov/publications/ccr/)
But, to make it worse, since you’re specifically looking for Title 24, that’s *not* maintained by the CA Office Of Administrative Law (OAL), but by the Building Standards Commision:
“Title 24, the Building Standards Code, is maintained by the Building Standards Commission, not by OAL, and is not included in the on-line CCR or printed CCR. To locate
a copy of Title 24, please contact the Building Standards Commission [www.bsc.ca.gov/.”](https://www.bsc.ca.gov/.”)
The thing you’re actually looking for is here: [https://www.dgs.ca.gov/BSC/Codes](https://www.dgs.ca.gov/BSC/Codes)
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