Lodi, CA Building Safety: Electrical Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- 2022 California Electrical Code
- Enforcing office
- City Building Official / Community Development Dept.
- Fee due
- Before permit issuance
- Inspector standard
- Meets city job-description certification
- Violation
- Misdemeanor, separate offense per day
Summary
Lodi adopts the 2022 California Electrical Code for all wiring, devices, appliances, and equipment installation, alteration, or addition, requiring a paid permit before work starts and treating unpermitted electrical work as a misdemeanor.
The provisions set forth in the "2022 California Electrical Code," together with Annex C, Annex H, and Administration and Enforcement thereto, are hereby adopted as the Electrical Code of the City of Lodi, and copies of the same are maintained by the city building official and available for review in the community development department. The Electrical Code of the city of Lodi shall apply to all matters pertaining to the installation, alteration, or addition of electrical wiring, devices, appliances, or equipment in the city of Lodi ... Work commenced before permit is issued. Any person who commences work requiring a permit before obtaining the necessary permits shall be subject to a fee established by the building official that shall be in addition to the required permit fee.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 68).
Full Breakdown
Lodi Municipal Code Section 15.16.010 adopts the "2022 California Electrical Code," together with Annex C, Annex H, and its Administration and Enforcement provisions, as the city's Electrical Code, applying "to all matters pertaining to the installation, alteration, or addition of electrical wiring, devices, appliances, or equipment in the city of Lodi." Copies are kept by the city building official and available at the community development department. Section 15.16.020 requires a fee for each electrical permit, paid to the city before issuance, with the schedule itself adopted by council resolution under Section 15.16.030.
Section 15.16.040 makes anyone who starts electrical work requiring a permit before obtaining it subject to an added fee set by the building official, on top of the standard permit fee. Section 15.16.050 amends Annex H 80.15 so the City Council sits as the Board of Appeals for alternate materials or construction methods, with the Building Official as ex officio secretary; three members present form a quorum and a majority of the full board must concur to act. Section 15.16.060 requires electrical inspectors to meet the minimum certification and experience standards in the city's own job description for the position, amending Annex H 80.27 of the state code.
The chapter derives from Ordinance No. 1968 (November 20, 2019) and was updated to the 2022 code cycle by Ordinance No. 2008 (December 7, 2022).
Violations & Fines
Section 15.16.070 makes it unlawful to erect, construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, improve, remove, convert, demolish, equip, use, or maintain electrical wiring, devices, appliances, or equipment, or to permit the same, in violation of the chapter. A violation is a misdemeanor under Chapter 1.08, with every day of continued violation a separate offense, and the city may additionally enforce its building code under Chapter 1.10.
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