Macon-Bibb County, GA Building Safety: Building Permits (2026)

Section 6-1(a) creates the Chief Building Official position within the Department of Business Development Services to administer and enforce Macon-Bibb County's building and technical codes and serve as the county's 'building official' under the state minimum codes. The department may contract with qualified professionals to fill that role, and subsection (e) authorizes the building official to decide which provision governs whenever two adopted technical codes conflict, weighing health, safety and welfare. § 8-2-25(a); subsection (b) layers on the ICC Property Maintenance Code, subsection (c) adopts the National Green Building Standard only as an optional, non-mandatory residential standard, and subsection (d) folds the county's own Appendices N and O airport noise-zone standards into the codes.

Section 6-3 puts the department in charge of enforcing Georgia's fire-safety and disability-access titles as they relate to construction, renovation and building use. Section 6-4 requires a visible, county-assigned house number before final approval of any newly constructed building. Section 6-5 then gates every 'Covered Service,' expressly defined to include a building permit, plat approval, building inspection report or certificate of occupancy, behind compliance with the certificate of good standing requirements in Chapter 26, Article II, Division 1 of the Code.