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 In the Wyoming codes, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants posted the entire text of ICC’s model International Residential Code 2015 as the “Residential Code 2015 of Wyoming,” even though the model code was not incorporated in its entirety. Moreover, Defendants posted eleven appendices to the “Building Code 2015 of Wyoming,” which were not adopted -- including Appendix M regarding Tsunami-Generated Flood Hazards, and Appendices A and H. In addition to erroneously including these appendices, ICC alleges that Defendants failed to incorporate certain amendments Wyoming made to the I-Codes, including, for example, amendments to the terms “owner,” “building official,” “fire chief,” and “enforcing authority.”

In the Virginia codes, ICC alleges Virginia removed certain sanctions from the model International Building Code 2015 that were not deleted from the text of the code appearing on UpCodes’s website. Similarly, ICC further alleges that Virginia made significant amendments to Chapter 1 of the model International Residential Code 2015, but that those amendments are not reflected in the text of the code that appears on the website.

In the Oregon codes, ICC alleges that UpCodes’s copy of the Oregon Structural Specialty Code contains “numerous errors,” including, for example, exclusion of Appendices C,