Apple Valley, CA Building Safety: Electrical Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- CA Electrical Code, 2025 Edition
- Enforcing officer
- Town Building Official
- Annual permit option
- For continuous-supervision engineers
- Annual report due
- Within 30 days of fiscal year end
- Fee authority
- Town Council resolution or ordinance
- Dishonored check
- Automatically revokes the permit
- Violation class
- Infraction or misdemeanor
Summary
Apple Valley enforces the 2025 California Electrical Code as its wiring code under Section 8.16.010, and Chapter 8.10's general provisions on fees, annual permits and penalties apply to electrical work the same as they apply to every other building trade. The Building Official administers inspections and can approve an annual permit for continuous in-house electrical maintenance.
The California Electrical Code, 2025 Edition, prepared and published by the California Building Standards, is hereby adopted and made a part of this Chapter by reference. ... Where any person, firm or corporation in the course of normal maintenance procedures proposes to install, alter or repair any electrical wiring, devices, appliances... in an existing facility located on property under the direct control of such person, firm or corporation... such person, firm or corporation shall not be required to obtain approval at each consecutive inspection step of the installation, alteration or repair but shall be required only to obtain an annual permit or annual permits.
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
010 adopts the California Electrical Code, 2025 Edition, published by the California Building Standards, as the Town's electrical code by reference, with no separate local electrical ordinance layered on top. 020 confirms electrical equipment is among the systems Title 8 is meant to regulate for life-safety and public welfare. 050 substitutes Town terms into the adopted state code: any reference to 'Director of Building and Safety,' 'Electrical Safety Engineer' or 'Administrative Authority' means the Building Official and Authorized Assistants, and 'City Council' means the Town Council.
040 puts electrical permit fees under Town Council resolution or ordinance and automatically revokes any permit paid for with a dishonored check. 100 lets a business with continuous in-house electrical maintenance, supervised by a professional engineer licensed in California, obtain a single Annual Permit instead of a separate permit for each installation, alteration or repair, with a written report on the work due to the Building Official within 30 days of the fiscal year's end; the annual fee is set by the number of employees doing the covered work.
Violations & Fines
Electrical work performed without a required permit is subject to Section 8.10.110: the Building Official withholds any new permit until past-due enforcement costs are paid, and the violation remains 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 and cost reimbursement to the Town ordered by the court.
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