1. 1. For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health and general welfare, to protect life and property and to prevent the construction of fire hazardous buildings, the county commission in all counties of the first and second classification, as provided by law, is for this purpose empowered to adopt by order or ordinance regulations to control the construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair of any building or structure and any electrical wiring or electrical installation therein, and provide for the issuance of building permits and adopt regulations licensing persons, firms or corporations other than federal, state or local governments, public utilities and their contractors engaged in the business of electrical wiring or installations and provide for the inspection thereof and establish a schedule of permit, license and inspection fees and appoint a building commission to prepare the regulations, as herein provided.
2. 2. For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health and general welfare, to protect life and property, the county commission in a county of the first classification having a population of more than one hundred sixty thousand but less than two hundred thousand, as provided by law, is for this purpose empowered to adopt by order or ordinance regulations to control the construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair of any building or structure, and provide for the issuance of building permits and adopt regulations licensing contractors, firms or corporations other than federal, state or local governments, public utilities and their contractors engaged in the business of plumbing or drain laying and provide for the inspection thereof and establish a schedule of permit, license and inspection fee and appoint a building commission to prepare the regulations, as herein provided.

(RSMo 1939 § 14942, A.L. 1945 p. 616, A.L. 1963 p. 117, A.L. 1999 S.B. 160 & 82)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 13749; 1919 § 10391; 1909 § 1294