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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Allow Municipalities To Opt Not To Enforce the Maine Uniform Energy Code’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9724, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2011, c. 408, §4, is further amended to read:
 
1. Limitations on home rule authority; enforcement of Maine Uniform Building Code or Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code.   This chapter provides express limitations on municipal home rule authority. The Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. Beginning July 1, 2012, the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has not adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. The Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code must be enforcedBeginning January 1, 2018, a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents shall enforce the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code, unless the municipality has adopted the Maine Uniform Building Code, in which case the municipality shall enforce the Maine Uniform Building Code. The municipality shall enforce the code applicable in that municipality through inspections that comply with Title 25, section 2373.
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §2371, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 699, §11, is amended to read:
 
4. Code.   "Code" means the Maine Uniform Building Code or the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code adopted pursuant to Title 10, chapter 1103.
Sec. 3. 25 MRSA §2373, first ¶, as amended by PL 2011, c. 408, §6, is further amended to read:
TheA code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. Beginning July 1, 2012, the code must be enforced in a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents and that has not adopted any building code by August 1, 2008. The code must be enforcedmunicipality shall enforce the code required by Title 10, section 9724, subsection 1 through inspections that comply with the code through any of the following means:
Sec. 4. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2018.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, replaces the bill and changes the title. The amendment allows a municipality that has more than 4,000 residents to affirmatively opt out of the Maine Uniform Energy Code by adopting the Maine Uniform Building Code.