Folsom, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- CALGreen 2025 Edition, Title 24 Part 11
- Excluded appendices
- Chapters A4, A5 and A6.1
- Enforcing official
- Chief building official
- Filed copy at
- Community development department
- Violation
- Misdemeanor, up to $1,000 / 6 months
- Admin sanction
- Level E, $100-$10,000
Summary
Folsom enforces the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code, known locally as the Folsom Green Building Standards Code, on projects that fall under Title 14's construction codes. Section 14.20.040 adopts CALGreen Part 11 of Title 24 by reference, excluding three optional appendix chapters, and the chief building official administers and enforces it citywide.
The California Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen Code), 2025 Edition, excluding Appendix Chapters A4, A5 and A6.1, published as Part 11, Title 24, C.C.R., is adopted and made part of this title as though fully set forth herein to provide technical requirements and the procedures for administration and enforcement of the provisions of the Folsom construction codes. One copy of the Folsom Green Building Standards Code and any amendments thereto shall be kept on file in the community development department and shall be available for use and examination by the public.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 1369, passed April 28, 2026).
Full Breakdown
015. 1, and folds it into city law exactly as if it were printed in full in the municipal code. 020, responsible for administering, enforcing and interpreting CALGreen requirements for the city, the same role that official holds for the rest of Title 14's construction codes. 030 states the code's purpose as improving public health, safety and welfare by encouraging sustainable design and construction practices and reducing buildings' negative environmental impact. A physical copy of the adopted Green Building Standards Code, with all amendments, is kept on file at the community development department for public inspection.
Because Folsom adopts CALGreen without publishing project-specific numeric targets of its own in this chapter, the actual green-building checklists, points and mandatory measures for a given project come from the state CALGreen text itself, applied and enforced locally by Folsom's building division.
Violations & Fines
A violation of Chapter 14.20 is enforced the same way as any other Title 14 construction code violation under Section 14.02.070: it is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine or six months in county jail, and separately a Level E administrative violation carrying a $100 to $10,000 sanction under Section 1.09.012, with enforcement procedures run through the community development department under Section 14.02.080.
Frequently Asked Questions
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