Taylor, MI Building Safety: Building Permits (2026)

Sec. 8-19 of the Taylor Code, adopted pursuant to section 8b(6) of Public Act No. 230 of 1972 (MCL 125.1508b(6)), designates the building official of the city as the enforcing agency to discharge the city's responsibility under Public Act No. 230 of 1972 (MCL 125.1501 et seq.), the Stille-DeRossett-Hale Single State Construction Code Act, as amended. The section further specifies that Appendix G of the Michigan Building Code is enforced by that agency within the City of Taylor, and states that the city assumes responsibility for administering and enforcing the Act throughout its corporate limits.

Because the city has taken on that administrative role, construction, alteration and other building work covered by the state construction code goes through the Taylor building official rather than a county or state office, and any permit application for building, mechanical, plumbing or electrical work is filed with the city's building department. Sec. 8-20 backs this up by establishing a construction board of appeals under the same state act, giving builders and property owners a local forum to challenge a building official's decision. A violation of the state construction code, as enforced locally under Sec.

8-19, is made a municipal civil infraction under Sec. 1-13 of the Code of Ordinances, the same general penalty section used throughout the code, rather than a separate criminal charge.