Ventura, CA Building Safety: Electrical Permits (2026)

8, with a true copy on file for public inspection at the Building Official's office. 020 point to Ventura's moist coastal air and corrosive native soil as the basis for its amendments. 1 requires a separate electrical permit for removing and reconstructing any existing rooftop solar photovoltaic system at the same address, and the system must go back exactly to the original AHJ-approved plan without modification. 1(D) requires all line-side connections to be made safe and de-energized before work, backed by a written outage schedule from the serving utility for any connection ahead of the service main disconnect, with equipment locked out and tagged out first; only work by qualified utility personnel on equipment under their own control is exempted.

70(D) requires a single service disconnecting means for all live parts downstream of the utility connection on 480-volt or 277/480-volt multi-meter installations. 22(F) requires any modification, addition or repair to pool shells, lighting, receptacles, heaters or circulating pumps, residential or commercial, to have GFCI protection field-tested and verified working, or replaced, before final inspection. 26(D) adds the same field-verification requirement for equipotential bonding whenever pool shells, slides, rails, ladders, diving boards, covers, heaters, pumps, lights or deck inserts within 5 feet of the pool water's edge are modified. 12(C) bars quad, space-saving circuit breakers on PV systems backfeeding more than 20 amps.