Madera, CA Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

01 sets up the city's inspection framework alongside its permit, plan review and investigation fees, all established by resolution of the City Council rather than the standard CBC fee schedule. Subsection (D) governs re-inspections: a fee may be assessed for each inspection or re-inspection when the portion of work called for inspection is not complete, or when corrections previously called for were not made. The section is explicit that it is not meant to penalize a contractor the first time a job is rejected for failing to meet code, but is instead aimed at the practice of calling for inspections before work is actually ready.

Re-inspection fees can also be assessed when the inspection record card is not posted or available to the inspector, when access is not provided on the requested date, or when the work deviates from plans approved by the Building Official. To get a re-inspection scheduled, the applicant must file a written application on a city-furnished form and pay the fee set in the Council's fee schedule; the city will not perform any further inspection of the work until that fee is paid. The Building Official who administers this process is the Director of the Department of Building and Safety or a designee. , passed May 3, 2023.