Gilbert, AZ Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)

Sec. 10-40 adopts the "International Green Construction Code 2018 Edition," published by the International Code Council, "as amended by subsection 10-40-2" (the "Green Construction Code"), as though set out at length in the Code of the Town of Gilbert, with copies filed in the office of the town clerk and available for public inspection, the same adoption mechanism the town uses for its building, electrical, plumbing, and fire codes. " That voluntary designation is confirmed by Sec. 10-50, the article's enforcement section, which lists the specific sections subject to citations and civil penalties, "sections 10-31, 10-32, 10-33, 10-34, 10-35, 10-36, 10-39, or 10-42," and separately routes fire code violations under Sec.

10-37 to the fire code's own penalty sections. Sec. 10-40 appears in neither enforcement list, meaning a builder who does not follow the Green Construction Code faces no citation or civil penalty for that alone, unlike work that skips a required building, electrical, plumbing, or fire permit. A builder who elects to follow the Green Construction Code, adopted alongside the town's mandatory codes since January 30, 2014 and last amended in the November 7, 2019 codification, does so to pursue voluntary environmental standards for a project rather than to satisfy a separate legal mandate.