Greenwood, IN Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- Indiana Plumbing Code, IAC Title 675, Article 16
- Permit validity
- Up to 365 days, one 365-day extension
- Late-permit penalty
- Double the current permit fee
- First-offense fine
- $50, plus $50 per day continuing
- Repeat-offense fine
- $100 per day within 2 years
- Enforcing office
- Building Commissioner, Community Development Services
Summary
The City of Greenwood, Indiana adopts the Indiana Plumbing Code by reference under General Ordinances Sec. 7-10, so any plumbing work in the city must meet that state-adopted standard and go through the Building Commissioner's permit process before work begins.
Sec. 7-10 Adoption of Building Rules. ... (a) Building rules of the Indiana Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission as set out in the following Articles of Title 675 of the Indiana Administrative Code are incorporated by reference in this Code and shall include later amendments to those Articles as the same are published in the Indiana Register or the Indiana Administrative Code with effective dates as fixed therein: ... (3) Article 16 - Plumbing Codes. Indiana Plumbing Code ... (d) Violation penalties. In addition to any injunctive relief which may be sought, any person who shall violate a provision of this code, or fail to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements thereof, shall be fined on the first offense of a violation of this code, a fine of $50. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense subject to a daily fine of $50 per day.
Full Breakdown
Under Sec. 7-10 of the Greenwood General Ordinances, the Common Council incorporated Article 16 of Title 675 of the Indiana Administrative Code, the Indiana Plumbing Code, into city law along with later published amendments. That means a plumber working anywhere in the City of Greenwood, Indiana, from Old Town Greenwood to the Greenwood Park Mall corridor, must meet the state plumbing standard as enforced locally by the Building Commissioner in the Department of Community Development Services. Two copies of the adopted rules are kept on file at the office of the City Clerk for public inspection under Sec.
7-10(b). Because plumbing work alters a building, it also triggers the general permitting chain in Sec. 7-11 through 7-18: a permit is required before work begins, the permit is valid up to 365 days with a possible 365-day extension at half the base fee, and the Building Commissioner requires a minimum of three inspections culminating in a final sign-off before a certificate of occupancy issues under Sec. 7-15. Fees are set by the Common Council's official permit fee schedule in Sec. 4-66. A person who starts plumbing construction before obtaining the required permit pays double the current fee.
Appeals of a Building Commissioner decision go first to the Plan Commission and then to the state Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission under I.C. 22-13-2-7.
Violations & Fines
Violating Sec. 7-10's adopted plumbing rules or working without the required permit is an offense under Sec. 7-18(d), carrying a $50 fine for the first offense and a $50 daily fine for each day the violation continues after notice. A repeat offense within a two-year period following a prior conviction is fined $100 per day. The Building Commissioner may also revoke the permit, deny future permit applications or inspection requests, or seek injunctive relief through the Greenwood Plan Commission.
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