Hoover, AL Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

At various intervals during the construction process, building inspections and fire officials shall inspect or cause to be inspected all construction or work for which a permit is required, and a final inspection shall be made of every building or structure upon completion, prior to the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, as required in Section 111 of the International Building Code. Where any additional or extra inspection is required on any undertaking due to the failure of the permit holder to comply with a provision(s) of any code adopted by the city, a "special inspection permit" shall be required and obtained for each such inspection. There shall be an additional advance charge of $75.00 for the first re-inspection and/or testing and an additional advance charge of $100.00 for each subsequent inspection and/or testing. A special inspection permit shall also be required anytime that a building inspection and/or fire official finds that construction testing does not pass requirements as set forth by any code adopted by the city and another testing is required to determine code compliance.

(Ord. No. 17-2358, § 1.B, 12-18-17; Ord. No. 24-2641, § 1.F, 5-6-24)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 17-2358, §§ 1.B and 1.D, adopted Dec. 18, 2017, renumbered the former § 6-5 and enacted a new § 6-5 as set out herein. The historical notation has been retained with the amended provisions for reference purposes.