Delete this section in its entirety and refer to Alaska State Statute 18.60.705 as follows:

Section 18.60.705. Plumbing code.

(a) Except as provided otherwise in this section, and unless the department adopts by regulation a later edition of the following publications or a later version of another nationally recognized code approved by the legislature by law, the following publications are adopted as the minimum plumbing code for the state:

(1) Chapters 2-14, and the appendices A through L of the 1997 edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials and adopted at the 67th annual conference, September 1996, excluding Table 4.1, “Minimum Plumbing Facilities”; and adding Appendix Chapter 29, Table A-29-A, “Minimum Plumbing Fixtures”, of the 1997 edition of the Uniform Building Code published in April 1997 by the International Council of Building Officials, except that for the category identified in Table A-29-A as “Assembly places – Auditoriums, convention halls, dance floors, lodge rooms, stadiums and casinos”, when the category is applied to auditoriums, convention halls, stadiums and casinos, the ratios

(A) indicating the number of water closets required for females are changed to provide the following:

(i) four water closets for 1 – 50 females;

(ii) six water closets for 51 – 100 females;

(iii) 10 water closets for 101 – 200 females;

(iv) 14 water closets for 201 – 400 females; and

(v) one additional water closet for each 100 females over 400 females; and

(B) indicating the number of lavatories required for females and males are changed to:

(i) one lavatory for each water closet up to four water closets; and

(ii) one additional lavatory for each two additional water closets beyond four water closets;