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made them effective and many more states have yet to do either.
In the development of the IBC, the committee took the least stringent provisions from each of the three model codes and used this as a basis. A decision was made as to which provisions would need to be made more stringent, and which should stay less stringent. This result is a code that is more restrictive in some areas and less in others. This is a change from what some of these jurisdictions saw in the UBC, NBC, and SBC. Therefore, some jurisdictions were happy and some were very unhappy. In areas that were previously governed by the Uniform Building Code (UBC), they find that the IBC is too lenient in many cases. The opposite applies to those in National Building Code (NBC) and Standard Building Code (SBC) areas. Some