Pasco County, FL Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Code of Ordinances Sec. 18-22 authorizes the building official to examine or have examined any building, electrical, gas, mechanical, or plumbing system covered by a pending permit application to enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish, install, or change occupancy. Once a permit issues, the official must inspect the work from time to time during construction and again upon completion, keeping a record of every examination and any code violations found. The official may also inspect materials or assemblies at the point of manufacture and can require exposing internal construction to verify it, and can rely on written, certified reports from qualified special inspectors or testing laboratories with a Florida-licensed professional engineer in responsible charge, including out-of-state labs supervised by an engineer licensed in Florida.

The code places responsibility on the permit holder to have the work ready: it assumes the holder or their agent has already inspected the work and confirmed it's code-compliant before calling for a county inspection. If the building official rejects work as incomplete, in violation, or inadequate, the permit holder must request a new inspection and pay any additional reinspection fee set in the county's fee schedule under Sec. 18-40.