Lexington, KY Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)

3 explicitly reaches plumbing systems: anyone who 'commences any work on a building, structure, electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing system before obtaining the necessary permits, certificates, letters, or other documentation required pursuant to this article' can be billed an additional fee 'in addition to and equal to the amount of the original relevant fee' the moment the division discovers the unpermitted work. That doubling applies on top of whatever the underlying permit fee schedule in Section 5-29 sets for the project. Permits and inspections are administered by the director of the Division of Building Inspection, who under Section 5-1 is designated the enforcement agency for the Kentucky Uniform Statewide Mandatory Building Code and Kentucky Residential Code pursuant to KRS Chapter 198B.

the Kentucky Plumbing Code', the state code, not a locally drafted plumbing code, sets the technical standard even though the city issues the permit and collects the fee. 4 charges $50 for a second re-inspection of the same work, doubling for each additional re-inspection after that, and all fees must be paid before further inspections or permits are scheduled. There is no separate published fee line for a stand-alone plumbing permit in the Section 5-29 schedule; plumbing work is folded into whichever underlying building-permit fee category, new construction, remodeling, accessory structure, it belongs to.