Highland, CA Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Highland administers building inspections through the California Building Code, 2025 Edition, adopted in § 15.04.010, with the building official designated as the authority charged with administration and enforcement. The city's process rules are its own amendments in § 15.04.030, and Section 109.8 is the one that governs re-inspections.

A re-inspection fee can be imposed for each inspection or re-inspection when the portion of work for which inspection is called is not complete or when required corrections are not made. The section says it is not to be interpreted as requiring re-inspection fees the first time a job is rejected for failure to comply with the technical codes; its purpose is to control the practice of calling inspections before the job is ready.

Four further triggers are listed: the inspection record card is not posted or is otherwise not available on the work site; the approved plans are not readily available to the inspector; the contractor fails to provide access on the date for which the inspection is requested; or the work deviates from plans requiring the approval of the Building Official.

The procedure is written into the section. To obtain a re-inspection the applicant must file an application in writing upon a city-approved form and pay the applicable re-inspection fee. Where re-inspection fees have been assessed, additional inspections of the work will not be performed until the required fees have been paid, so an unpaid fee stops the job from moving forward. The section prints no dollar amount.

Inspections also interact with permit life. Amended Section 105.5 makes a residential permit invalid if work has been suspended or abandoned for 180 days between each required inspection, and Section 109.7 requires a special investigation before a permit is issued for work started without one.