Hendricks County, IN Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

42 governs the inspection process under the county's Building Code. Division (A) requires the Building Commissioner to make, or cause to be made, inspections of work being done as necessary to ensure full compliance with the subchapter and the terms of the permit, and specifically makes work found incomplete or not ready for inspection subject to reinspection before work progresses. Division (B) puts the Commissioner in charge of designating the stage of construction at which each required inspection must be requested by the permit holder.

Division (C) gives the Commissioner authority to make or require additional inspections beyond those specified, to check compliance with the subchapter and other laws the County Planning and Building Department enforces. 44 lets the Commissioner halt work with a written stop-work order whenever work proceeds contrary to the subchapter. 45 then ties inspection outcomes to occupancy: no certificate of occupancy may issue for a building placed, erected, altered, or repaired after the subchapter's adoption unless it complied with the subchapter's provisions, and occupying such a building without a full, partial, or temporary certificate is unlawful.