To enact section 1545.073 of the Revised Code to authorize a park district's board of park commissioners to create a building department for building code enforcement purposes.

Section 1. That section 1545.073 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 1545.073. (A) A board of park commissioners of a park district may create a building department and employ the personnel it determines necessary to administer and enforce this section. The building department may enforce the state nonresidential building code adopted pursuant to Chapter 3781. of the Revised Code regarding any building existing or constructed on the park district's property if the building department is certified pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code to enforce that code.

(B) The board may direct the building department, upon certification, to exercise enforcement authority and to accept and approve plans regarding any building existing or constructed on the park district's property pursuant to sections 3781.10 and 3791.04 of the Revised Code for the class of building for which the department and personnel are certified.

(C) Where a municipal, township, or county building department is located within the same jurisdiction of a park district building department certified to exercise enforcement authority pursuant to sections 3781.10 and 3791.04 of the Revised Code, the municipal, township, or county building department shall not exercise its enforcement authority regarding any buildings existing or constructed on the park district's property.