Moore County, NC Building Safety: Building Permits (2026)

Sec. 5-26 is the entirety of Article II of Chapter 5; the county wrote no local permit-application procedure or fee table of its own for general building construction. The section traces to a motion of the Board of Commissioners on November 10, 1977, and was last amended December 19, 2011, to keep pace with the state code's periodic updates. Moore County follows the same one-sentence adoption model across every construction trade: Sec. 5-41 adopts the North Carolina Electrical Code, Sec. 5-81 adopts the North Carolina Gas Code, Sec.

5-101 adopts the North Carolina Heating and Air Conditioning Code, and Sec. 5-151 adopts the North Carolina Plumbing Code, each 'as fully as though set forth herein' as the county's own code for that trade. An editor's note under Sec. 5-1 records that the county's own local permit-fee section, which dated to that same 1977 motion, 'has been removed' on the county's instruction, so no separate Moore County fee schedule for general building permits appears in the current code; permit fees and issuance procedures run through the state code framework the county adopted.

The county's own text goes further only where it built a locally administered program: Article IX's cross-connection control rules (Sec. ) impose their own installation permits and inspections for backflow prevention devices, separate from the general building permit adopted by reference in Sec. 5-26.