Bulloch County, GA Building Safety: Electrical Permits (2026)

A. Section 8-2-20(9)(B)(i)(I)-(VIII) and authorized by Section 8-2-25(a), the group of eight codes the state requires every Georgia jurisdiction to adopt, which includes the National Electric Code. Sec. 4-27 further provides that where the county's own ordinances conflict with those state minimum standard codes, the state codes prevail, and Sec. 4-28 assigns the duties of any named state-code official to the corresponding county official, meaning the county building official administers electrical enforcement locally. That enforcement happens through the inspection sequence in Sec. 4-52: subsection (a)(10), the permanent power inspection, is made specifically 'to determine compliance with the National Electric Code,' and only after that compliance is confirmed does the building department fax the appropriate power company an approval to connect permanent power to the structure.

Electrical work is swept into the general permit requirement of Sec. 4-50(a)(1), which requires an owner or contractor to apply to the building official and obtain a permit before installing, altering or replacing an electrical system regulated by the International Residential Code. Contractors performing that work must present a valid state electrical license to the building official before the permit issues, under Sec. 4-50(c)(5), and register that license number with the building official per Sec. 4-51(c)(2) before any permit is pulled.