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

Section 102-8, in Title 1 (Administration) of the Unified Development Ordinance (Title 2 of the Code, though this administrative chapter precedes it), adopts ten Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes as amended by the state Department of Community Affairs, including at (a)(10) the National Electrical Code, alongside the International Building, Fuel Gas, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire, Energy Conservation, Residential, Property Maintenance and Existing Building Codes. Chapter 1 and all appendices of each adopted code are incorporated by reference as though copied into the county code in full.

Where an adopted code refers to duties of a named official, subsection (d) assigns those duties to whichever Rockdale County officer holds the corresponding responsibility, which in practice is the county's electrical inspector within the Department of Public Services and Engineering. Under § 102-5, anyone proposing to construct, expand, modify, or wire a structure for occupancy in unincorporated Rockdale County must pay a fee and apply to that department before work begins, and the work must comply with the UDO in full, which folds in the adopted National Electrical Code requirements.

§ 8-2-25, Georgia's state minimum standard codes statute, and the adoption was carried forward from the original UDO ordinance, Ord. No. 0-2006-32, §§ 1-3, adopted November 28, 2006, and amended by Ord. No. 2007-09, §§ 3-5, May 22, 2007.