Chula Vista, CA Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- California Plumbing Code, 2025 Edition (Title 24, Part 5)
- Permit required
- CVMC 15.06.080(A), before any plumbing alteration
- Minor-repair exemption
- Stopping leaks/clearing stoppages without pipe replacement
- Permit expiration
- Work not started within 12 months, or 180-day suspension
- Fees
- Set by City's Master Fee Schedule
- New SFD requirement
- Graywater clothes-washer stub-out (CVMC 15.28.020)
Summary
Chula Vista adopts the 2025 California Plumbing Code by reference (CVMC 15.28.010) and requires a separate permit from the Building Official for plumbing installation, alteration, or repair under CVMC 15.06.080, with narrow exemptions for minor leak and stoppage repairs.
There is hereby adopted by reference the California Plumbing Code, 2025 Edition, known as the California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 5... Said document is hereby adopted as the Plumbing Code of the City of Chula Vista for regulating the complete installation, maintenance, and repair of plumbing, drainage systems, water systems, gas systems, and private sewage disposal systems on all properties and within all buildings and structures in the City. Chapter 15.06 CVMC shall serve as the administrative, organizational, and enforcement rules and regulations for this chapter.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 3623, passed May 19, 2026).
Full Breakdown
010 adopts the California Plumbing Code, 2025 Edition (Title 24, Part 5 of the California Code of Regulations) as the City's Plumbing Code, governing installation, maintenance and repair of plumbing, drainage, water, gas and private sewage disposal systems on every property in Chula Vista. 080(A), no building service equipment regulated by the technical codes may be installed, altered, or repaired without a separate permit from the Building Official first being obtained. 080(B)(2): no permit is needed to stop a leak in a drain, soil, waste or vent pipe, or to clear a stoppage or repair a leak in pipes, valves or fixtures (including removing and reinstalling a water closet) so long as no valve, pipe or fixture is replaced or rearranged, but replacing a concealed trap, drain, soil, waste or vent pipe with new material is new work requiring a permit and inspection. 085(C)). 090(D)); one or more 180-day extensions are available on written request. 095). 020).
Violations & Fines
Unpermitted plumbing work is unlawful under CVMC 15.06.075(A). The Building Official may issue a written notice of violation ordering the illegal condition discontinued and abated (15.06.075(B)); if the notice isn't promptly complied with, the Building Official can direct the City Attorney to sue to restrain, correct, or abate the violation, or to end an unlawful occupancy (15.06.075(C)). Violators are subject to penalties as prescribed by law (15.06.075(D)), and the Building Official may also suspend or revoke a permit issued in error or in violation of the code (15.06.090(E)).
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