Gulfport, MS Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- IPC, 2018 ed., w/ App. C & E
- Adopting section
- Sec. 3-56(a)
- Base permit fee
- $30.00, Sec. 3-83
- Local amendment example
- 305.4.1 set at 12 inches
- Applies to
- Licensed plumbing contractors
- Enforced by
- Code official / plumbing inspector
Summary
Gulfport adopts the International Plumbing Code, 2018 edition, as its plumbing code at Sec. 3-56, requiring a permit from the code official before any plumbing system is installed, altered or repaired, with a thirty-dollar base permit fee plus per-fixture charges under Sec. 3-83.
(a)That certain document, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the Building Official of the City of Gulfport, being marked and designated as the International Plumbing Code, 2018 edition, including Appendices C and E, as published by the International Code Council, be and is hereby adopted as the Plumbing Code of the City of Gulfport, Mississippi, for regulating and governing the design, construction, quality of materials, erection, installation, alteration, repair, location, relocation, replacement, addition to, use or maintenance of plumbing systems in the City of Gulfport; and provide for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 68).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 3-56(a) adopts the International Plumbing Code, 2018 edition, including Appendices C and E, as published by the International Code Council, as the Plumbing Code of the City of Gulfport, governing the design, construction, quality of materials, installation, alteration, repair, relocation and maintenance of plumbing systems citywide, and providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees. Sec. 3-56(b) lists Gulfport's local amendments to that 2018 edition: it substitutes 'City of Gulfport, Mississippi' for the code's generic jurisdiction reference, deletes the code's own fee-schedule and Department-of-Plumbing-Inspection sections in favor of the city's own department and fee table, rewrites the violation-penalty and stop-work-order sections to point to the misdemeanor general penalty at Sec.
1. Sec. 00) base fee per permit plus a schedule of per-fixture charges, for example five dollars for a water closet or sink, ten dollars for a water heater, and fifty dollars for a swimming pool connection.
Violations & Fines
Starting plumbing work without the permit required under Sec. 3-83, or work that does not conform to the adopted 2018 International Plumbing Code as locally amended at Sec. 3-56(b), is prosecuted as a misdemeanor under Sec. 1-9's general penalty of up to $1,000, 90 days' imprisonment, or both, and the plumbing inspector holds police power under Sec. 3-74 to enter premises and file charges against a violator.
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