Buena Park, CA Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- 2025 California Plumbing Code / 2024 UPC
- Local amendments
- None; reserved for future use
- Adoption ordinance
- Ord. No. 1764, effective 12/9/2025
- Infraction fine (building code)
- Up to $100, then $500, then $1,000
- Misdemeanor penalty
- Up to $1,000 fine or 6 months jail
Summary
Buena Park enforces plumbing work under the 2025 California Plumbing Code, which incorporates the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code plus its Appendix A and Appendix L, adopted by reference in Municipal Code § 15.64.010. The city has not added any local amendments to that adopted code. Violating it, working without a permit or against approved plans, is enforced through the citywide building-and-safety penalty schedule.
The 2025 California Plumbing Code, incorporating the Uniform Plumbing Code, 2024 Edition, including Appendix A and Appendix L, is hereby adopted by reference as the plumbing code of the city of Buena Park, together with the amendments, additions, deletions and exceptions set forth in this chapter.
Full Breakdown
010. That adoption took effect with Ordinance No. 1764 on December 9, 2025, which repealed the prior version adopted by Ordinance No. 1712. 020, headed "Amendments to the California Plumbing Code," is expressly reserved for future amendments, meaning Buena Park currently applies the state plumbing code exactly as written, with none of the city-specific deletions or additions found in chapters like the fire code or building code. 010. That section makes any code violation, including a failure to obtain a required plumbing permit or work performed against approved plans, either a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail, or, where the city charges it as an infraction, a first-offense fine of up to $100.
010 carves out a steeper infraction schedule for "any provision of a building and safety code of the city": up to $500 for a second violation of the same provision within a year and up to $1,000 for each further violation in that year, well above the standard $100/$200/$500 tiers that apply to ordinary code violations. 010(B).
Violations & Fines
Working without a required plumbing permit, or against approved plumbing plans, is enforceable as a misdemeanor (up to $1,000 and six months in jail) or, if charged as an infraction under the building-and-safety schedule in § 1.04.010, a fine of up to $100 for a first offense, $500 for a second within a year, and $1,000 for each later violation in that year. Each day a violation continues counts as a separate offense.
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