Corpus Christi, TX Building Safety: Electrical Permits (2026)

Corpus Christi Code of Ordinances Sec. 14-241 incorporates the National Electrical Code, 2020 Edition, as published by the National Fire Protection Association, and adopts it as the city's Electrical Code with local amendments to several NEC administrative sections. 13(13) gives the authority having jurisdiction the power to require that any installation covered or concealed without a prior inspection be exposed again for inspection, and once the contractor notifies the city that an installation is ready, the city must conduct that inspection within two days. 19(F)(3) similarly requires that when part of an electrical installation is about to be hidden behind permanent building components, the installer must notify the Electrical Inspector, and the work cannot be concealed until the inspector approves it or two days pass from that notice; on large jobs where concealment happens continuously, the installer must give advance notice so inspections can be made periodically as work proceeds.

27(A) requires every Electrical Inspector to hold a certificate from a nationally recognized inspector certification program accepted by the city's board, and bars anyone from serving as an Electrical Inspector without that certificate, though an inspector already serving in the city when the requirement took effect could keep working under a special certificate issued without examination. 29 clarifies that adopting the electrical code doesn't shift liability for damages caused by defective electrical equipment away from the party that owns, designs, operates, or installs it, and doesn't make the city or its employees liable by virtue of having inspected the work. Separately, Sec. 3.