Folsom, CA Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- 2025 CA Plumbing Code / 2024 UPC
- Governing section
- FMC 14.12.040 / .050
- Fee schedule
- Deleted; set by council resolution
- Enforcing official
- Chief building official
- Max criminal fine
- $1,000
- Violation class
- Level E administrative violation
Summary
Folsom adopts the 2025 California Plumbing Code, based on the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code, as the Folsom Plumbing Code under Municipal Code Chapter 14.12, then strips out the model code's own fee schedule so the city council sets plumbing permit fees by resolution instead.
Subject to the additions, amendments, or deletions set forth in Section 14.12.050, the California Plumbing Code, 2025 Edition, based on the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code, including Appendix Chapters A, B, D, and G published as Part 5, Title 24, C.C.R., published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, is adopted and made part of this title as though fully set forth herein... The Folsom Plumbing Code is amended as follows: A. Section 104.3.2, Plan Review Fees, is hereby deleted in its entirety. B. Section 104.5, Fees, and all of its subsections shall be deleted in their entirety. C. Table 104.5, Plumbing Permit Fees, is hereby deleted in its entirety.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 1369, passed April 28, 2026).
Full Breakdown
050. 020 and administers, enforces, and interprets the plumbing code and every other referenced technical code. 030 states the purpose as setting minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property and public welfare and to guard against hazards from plumbing and fuel gas piping systems by regulating their design, construction, installation, materials, location and operation citywide. 5 (Plumbing Permit Fees) in its entirety, so none of the Uniform Plumbing Code's printed dollar figures apply in Folsom. 5 of the adopted codes) directs that permit fees are instead adopted by resolution of the city council, meaning current plumbing permit costs live in a council fee resolution, not in the code text itself. A copy of the Folsom Plumbing Code and its amendments is kept on file in the community development department for public examination.
Violations & Fines
Plumbing work performed without the required permit, or in violation of the adopted Folsom Plumbing Code, is enforced through the same Title 14 scheme as every other construction code chapter: Sections 14.02.060 through 14.02.080 make it an administrative violation and a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to one thousand dollars, imprisonment in county jail for up to six months, or both, and classify it a Level E administrative violation carrying its own monetary sanction range under Section 1.09.012. The community development department can issue a notice to correct with a stop order under Section 1.09.023, giving as little as seven and as many as thirty calendar days to apply for a missing permit before the stop order lifts.
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