Nash County, NC Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Sec. 6-1 of the Nash County Code establishes the county's Building Inspection Department and puts a building inspector in charge of enforcing the building code; that inspector must report monthly to the Board of Commissioners on every inspection made and every permit fee collected. Sec. S. , as the applicable code for buildings generally, and separately adopts the North Carolina State Uniform Residential Code for one- and two-family homes and their outbuildings, while exempting farm buildings, temporary buildings and sheds. Sec. 6-3 limits this chapter's reach to the entire county except inside the corporate limits of a municipality, since Rocky Mount, Nashville, Spring Hope and the county's other towns run their own inspection departments inside their limits.

Once a permit is issued, Sec. 6-5 gives the building inspector continuing authority over the job: even after approving drawings or specifications, the inspector can still require corrections, and can stop unlawful or noncompliant work with a written stop-work notice; once that notice is given it is unlawful to continue the work until the corrective work it demands is done within a reasonable, specified time. Sec. 6-6 ties every inspection fee, whether for a building, mobile home, billboard or sign, to the total cost of the project, calculated from a fee schedule kept on file in the county offices and available to the public.