Apple Valley, CA Building Safety: Building Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- CA Building Code 2025, Vols. 1-2
- Applies to
- All buildings, structures, building service equipment
- Permit expires
- 365 days unstarted / 180 days past inspection
- Extension available
- One 180-day extension, written request
- Work without permit
- Enforcement costs must be paid first
- Enforcing officer
- Building Official
- Violation class
- Infraction or misdemeanor
Summary
Apple Valley requires building permits under the 2025 California Building Code, adopted wholesale by Chapter 8.12 and applied to every building, structure and piece of building service equipment in Town under Section 8.10.010. Anyone who works without a required permit must pay past-due enforcement costs before the Building Official will issue one.
The provisions of this Title 8 shall apply to all buildings, structures and building service equipment within the Town and to all parts thereof except as specifically or by necessary implication provided otherwise in this Title. ... The California Building Code, Volumes 1 and 2, 2025 Edition, as published by the California Building Standards Commission, including the Appendix and the Standards referred to therein, is hereby adopted and made part of this Chapter by reference, with the following modifications:
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 19 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
020 states the purpose is to safeguard life, health, property and public welfare by regulating design, construction, materials, use, occupancy, and the electrical, plumbing, heating and comfort-cooling equipment specifically regulated in the Title. 5: a permit becomes invalid if work is not started within 365 days of issuance, or if work is suspended, abandoned or uncompleted for 365 days after commencement or 180 days past the last required inspection. The Building Official can grant one 180-day extension on written request with justifiable cause; a lapsed permit renews at half the original fee.
100 lets an owner performing continuous maintenance under a licensed engineer's supervision obtain an Annual Permit instead of a permit for each job, with a written report due to the Building Official within 30 days of the fiscal year's end. 040 puts fee-setting in the Town Council's hands and automatically revokes any permit paid for with a dishonored check. 080 voids any permit issued contrary to Title 8.
Violations & Fines
Section 8.10.110 blocks the Building Official from issuing any permit until an applicant pays all past-due enforcement costs when work started without a required permit. Section 8.10.120 makes unlawful construction a public nuisance the Town Attorney can sue to abate, and violations are punished as an infraction or misdemeanor under Sections 1.01.200 through 1.01.230 of Title 1, with a first or second offense chargeable as a misdemeanor.
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