Posted by AlexCO on August 24, 2008 at 11:34:43:
In Reply to: How old is the house? posted by Rich-CA on August 22, 2008 at 16:58:10:
> It it unconstitutional for the government to demand you bring your property up to date with the latest code upgrades (the term is: ex post facto, which means after the fact) unless you do work on that part of the property or that system. If you have an original system, which it sounds like you do, then you have to apply the code at the time the house was built to determine if it was not done legally. If you go back far enough, there were no such things as building codes, which means no matter how it was built, it was legal. Once legal always legal until the owner changes something.
This is called "Grandfathered."
- Re: How old is the house? Helena 04:20:51 08/29/08 (3)
- Correction (addition) to my post just below: AlexCO 07:14:54 08/29/08 (0)
- Re: How old is the house? AlexCO 07:00:45 08/29/08 (1)
- Re: How old is the house? Helena 04:01:06 08/30/08 (0)