Bennie Thompson actually said...

a uniform set of codes that if you want to participate in the disaster offerings that we have, you must have these on the books and enforced which would go a long ways toward addressing that.

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Thompson suggests implementing uniform building codes to improve disaster preparedness.

02/13/2017

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