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

Sec. 00, which need no permit at all. Sec. 6-4(b) applies the same permit requirement separately to mobile homes, so placing a mobile home on a lot requires its own permit even where the site already holds a permitted structure. Sec. 6-4(c) adds a health-department gate in front of every permit: the Building Inspection Department will not issue a permit until the county health department has approved the land as suitable for its intended use, which in practice ties the building permit to septic or well suitability review on land not served by public utilities.

This permit requirement sits inside Chapter 6, which Sec. 6-2 ties to the North Carolina State Building Code and the North Carolina State Uniform Residential Code (farm buildings, temporary buildings and sheds are exempt from the code itself under Sec. 6-2(c)), and which Sec. 6-3 limits to the county outside any municipality's corporate limits. Once a permit issues, Sec. 6-5 lets the building inspector keep requiring corrections or stop work entirely if construction departs from the approved plans or the code, and Sec. 6-6 charges an inspection fee based on the project's total cost.