## 9.8 Compliance and Enforcement

At the time a building permit application is submitted to the enforcement agency, the applicant also submits plans and energy compliance documentation. This section describes the documents and procedures for documenting compliance with the solar-ready requirements of the Energy Standards. The following discussion pertains to the designer preparing construction and compliance documents, and to enforcement agency plan checkers who are examining those documents for compliance with the Energy Standards.

There are four documents associated with the nonresidential solar ready requirements. Each document is briefly described below.

• NRCC-SRA-01-E: Certificate of Compliance: Nonresidential Solar Ready Areas

This document is required for every project where the solar-ready requirements apply: newly constructed hotel/motel buildings with ten habitable or fewer stories, high-rise multifamily buildings with 10 or fewer stories, all other newly constructed nonresidential buildings with 3 or fewer stories, and additions to the previously mentioned buildings that increases roof area by more than 2,000 SF.

• NRCC-SRA-02-E: Certificate of Compliance: Minimum Solar Zone Area Worksheet

This document is required when buildings comply with the solar ready requirement by including a solar zone. That is, an appropriately sized solar PV system is not installed, an appropriately sized solar water heating system is not installed, the roof is not designed for vehicle traffic or a heliport, or the building is not a high-rise multifamily building that complies with all the OCST and high-efficacy lighting requirements in Exception 4 to §110.10(b)1B

• NRCI-SPV-01-E: Certificate of Installation – Solar Photovoltaic System

This document is required when the building is exempt from the solar zone requirements because an appropriately sized solar PV system has been installed.

• NRCI-STH-01-E: Certificate of Installation – Solar Water Heating System

This document is required when the building is exempt from the solar zone requirements because an appropriately sized solar water heating system has been installed.