Menifee, CA Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- MMC § 8.16.010
- Code adopted
- 2025 California Plumbing Code
- Appendices included
- A through S
- Late-permit penalty
- 2x permit fee (§ 8.04.020)
- Effective ordinance
- Ord. 2025-420, passed 9-17-2025
Summary
Menifee has adopted the 2025 California Plumbing Code in full, including Chapters 1 through 17 and appendices A through S, as the Menifee Plumbing Code, and requires a separate Building Official permit before any plumbing system is installed, altered, or replaced.
Except as hereinafter changed or modified, the 2025 California Plumbing Code as published by the State Building Standards Commission, including all of its chapters (including Chapters 1 through 17), tables, indices, addenda, footnotes and appendices (including appendices A through S), are hereby adopted by reference as the Menifee Plumbing Code and incorporated into this title.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-15: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinance 2026-432, passed 4-15-2026).
Full Breakdown
010 adopts by reference the 2025 California Plumbing Code published by the State Building Standards Commission, covering all of its chapters (1 through 17), tables, indices, addenda, footnotes, and appendices A through S, incorporating it into Title 8 as the Menifee Plumbing Code, with a copy required to be on file at the City Clerk's office. 040, which prohibits installing, connecting, enlarging, altering, repairing, removing, converting, or replacing any plumbing system without first obtaining a separate, valid permit from the Building Official. 020 instead ties them to a fee schedule the City Council sets by resolution, and the same section imposes a doubled penalty fee on anyone who begins plumbing work before the permit is issued.
As with the other Title 8 trade codes, the plumbing chapter traces to the original 2016 adoption ordinance and has been amended three times since, most recently updated to the 2025 edition and appendices by Ordinance 2025-420, passed September 17, 2025.
Violations & Fines
Plumbing work performed without the required permit triggers the doubled permit-fee penalty in Section 8.04.020, and separately falls under the citywide penalty scheme of Section 1.01.200: a misdemeanor by default punishable by up to $1,000 and six months in jail, or an infraction carrying $100, $200, and $500 fines for successive violations within a year, with continuing violations charged as a new offense each day.
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