International Building Code
Minnesota enforces the 2018 IBC
The 2018 International Building Code (IBC) has been in force in Minnesota since Mar 31, 2020. It applies statewide. Adopted by Commissioner of Labor and Industry. The legal citation is Minn. R. 1305.0011; Minn. Stat. 326B.106.
Record of adoption
Edition in force
2018 IBC
2020 Minnesota Building Code
Verified
- In force since
- Legal citation
- Minn. R. 1305.0011; Minn. Stat. 326B.106
- Adopted by
- Commissioner of Labor and Industry
- Second reading
- Applies
- Statewide
- State amendments
- Major
- Also called
- Minnesota Rules chapter 1305
Rule text names the 2018 IBC; the Mar 31, 2020, date comes from the department’s 2020 State Building Codes page. Chapter 1305 shows a newer revisor version dated Nov 12, 2025.
Coming next
- 2024 IBCPartialNo date yetIn developmentMinn. R. ch. 1305
Request for comments published in the State Register Jan 21, 2025; all later milestones listed as to be determined.
How Minnesota adopts the IBC
The commissioner adopts model codes by rule in consultation with the Construction Codes Advisory Council. Statute requires review beginning with the 2018 edition and every six years thereafter, adopting within two years of the published edition date. No legislative approval of the rule was found.
Cycle. Six-year cycle set by statute.
Laws, rulings, and other actions
- UndatedLegislationMinn. Stat. 326B.106 subd. 1 (as in the 2025 Minnesota Statutes; latest history cite 2024 c 127 art 6 s 1)
Directs the commissioner to adopt model codes by rule on a six-year cycle starting with the 2018 edition, sets commercial (from 2024) and residential (from 2026) energy code schedules with 2036 and 2038 reduction targets, and requires progress reports to legislative committees.
Enacted; in force
revisor.mn.gov (opens in a new tab)
How it was checked
Verified
Two separate readings of the state’s own record agree, and the passage is on file word for word.
Read twice: a second, blind reading of the state’s record agreed with the first on .
The state’s record was last read on , from two source pages.
Evidence 2 sources
Sources for the record itself come first, the state’s own records ahead of others. A label marks a source about something else, such as an exception. A source marked secondary is not the state’s own record.
“the 2018 edition of the International Building Code as promulgated by the International Code Council, Inc. (ICC)”
1305.0011 Adoption of International Building Code by reference and administrative authorityOffice of the Revisor of Statutes, Minnesotarevisor.mn.gov (opens in a new tab)Administrative codeRetrieved “The 2020 Minnesota State Building Code is effective March 31, 2020”
“The 2024 Minnesota Commercial Energy Code is effective Jan. 5, 2024.”
2020 Minnesota State Building CodesMinnesota Department of Labor and Industrydli.mn.gov (opens in a new tab)Agency pageRetrieved
Tracker cross-checks
Code adoption trackers are a cross-check. They are not Minnesota’s own record.
ICC’s code adoption mapCross-checkAgrees with the record
Row ‘State Minnesota 18 18 18 18 18 X 12 X X 18 X’; IBC = 1st value (2018)