International Residential Code
Minnesota enforces the 2018 IRC
The 2018 International Residential Code (IRC) 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. 1309.0010; Minn. Stat. 326B.106.
Record of adoption
Edition in force
2018 IRC
2020 Minnesota Residential Code
Verified
- In force since
- Legal citation
- Minn. R. 1309.0010; Minn. Stat. 326B.106
- Adopted by
- Commissioner of Labor and Industry
- Second reading
- Applies
- Statewide
- State amendments
- Major
- Also called
- Minnesota Rules chapter 1309
Docket records the rulemaking as complete with effective date Mar 31, 2020. Residential energy chapter is handled separately in chapter 1322.
How Minnesota adopts the IRC
Same as IBC: commissioner adopts by rule under the six-year statutory cycle. No docket for a 2024 IRC adoption was located.
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 three source pages.
Evidence 3 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 Residential Code”
1309.0010 Adoption of International Residential Code (Minnesota Rules)Office 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 Rulemaking docket: Minnesota Rules chapter 1309Minnesota 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’; IRC = 2nd value (2018)