Franklin County, KY Building Safety: Electrical Permits (2026)

Section 150.05(A) adopts the National Electric Code, as adopted by the Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction under KRS Ch. 198B, for electrical inspections of new structures, additions, rehabilitations, conversions and agricultural buildings, along with installing, altering or repairing them, anywhere in the county outside the corporate limits of the city of Frankfort. Division (B) makes the permit mandatory: from and after February 1, 1993, nobody can construct or erect those structures without first obtaining an electrical permit and having the matching inspections. A manufactured-mobile home can be placed on any site, but it must be inspected under Chapter 155.

Inspections are carried out by a certified electrical inspector of the Fiscal Court government. After an inspection shows the work meets the statute, the Kentucky Building Code, this section and Chapter 155, and the fee is paid, that inspector is authorized to approve and issue the permit.

Residential fees: temporary pole $75; rough-in and final (whole house) each $3 per circuit with a $75 minimum, where every double pole breaker counts as two circuits; temporary on main/service upgrade $75; ditch or slab $25 each trip; solar $100; 30-day reconnect $50; reinspections $50 each inspection. Commercial work pays 2% of the electrical contract, which includes all electrical material, or a $100 minimum. Commercial reinspections cost $50 each trip when the $100 fee was assessed and $0 when the 2% fee applies.

When the electrical contractor applies for the permit, a copy of the contract goes to the Planning and Building Codes Department, and approved change orders follow. Work concealed so that a full inspection is impossible is not accepted, and each reinspection adds the table fee to the total. The county keeps all fees collected.