Anaheim, CA Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- 2025 CA Plumbing Code (2024 UPC base)
- Covers
- Plumbing, gas delivery, medical gas, sewage
- Conflict rule
- Plumbing Code controls over Mechanical Code
- Permit expires
- 12 months if work not started
- Extension
- Up to 180 days, written request
- Default penalty
- Misdemeanor, up to $1,000/6 months
Summary
Anaheim adopts the 2025 California Plumbing Code, based on the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code, as the Anaheim Plumbing Code under Municipal Code Section 15.03.010, covering every plumbing, gas-delivery, and private sewage-disposal installation in the city. Permits lapse if work doesn't start within 12 months or stalls for 180 days.
The 2025 Edition of the California Plumbing Code (based on the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code as published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials). The provisions of the California Plumbing Code shall apply to the installation, alteration, repair, replacement of plumbing systems, gas delivery systems, and all aspects of a medical gas system including equipment, appliances, fixtures, fittings and appurtenances, where connected to a water or sewage system. The provisions of the California Plumbing Code shall apply to private sewage disposal systems. ... 105.5 Expiration. Every permit issued shall become invalid unless the work on the site authorized by such permit is commenced within 12 months after its issuance, or if the work authorized on the site by such permit is suspended or abandoned for a period of 180 days after the time the work is commenced.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-28: Code: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ord. 6627, passed 8-11-2026 | Zoning: Local legislation current through Ord. 6627, passed 8-11-2026).
Full Breakdown
0105) adopts the 2025 California Plumbing Code, based on the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, and applies it to "the installation, alteration, repair, replacement of plumbing systems, gas delivery systems, and all aspects of a medical gas system," including private sewage disposal systems. 020) collectively names it the "Anaheim Plumbing Code," filed with the Building Division per Health and Safety Code Section 18942(e)(1). 0104) makes the Plumbing Code control. 020, so plumbing permits run on the same clock as every other trade permit: a permit is invalid unless work begins within 12 months of issuance, and it also lapses after 180 days of suspension or abandonment once work has started, subject to written extensions of up to 180 days each that the Building Official may grant for justified cause.
Violations & Fines
Absent a Plumbing Code-specific penalty, a violation defaults to the citywide misdemeanor penalty in Section 1.01.370: a fine of up to $1,000, up to six months in jail, or both, with each day of a continuing violation charged as a separate offense.
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