Moore County, NC Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)

Sec. 5-151 sits in Article VIII of Chapter 5, Buildings and Building Regulations, and its full text reads: the most current edition of the North Carolina Plumbing Code, as adopted by the North Carolina Building Code Council and amended from time to time, is adopted by reference as fully as though set forth herein as the plumbing code of the County of Moore. Because unincorporated Moore County has no separate technical plumbing chapter of its own, it simply incorporates whatever edition the state Building Code Council currently maintains, so plumbing permit applications and inspection requirements track the state edition in effect at the time of the work, not a version frozen into the county code.

The article was first adopted by a county motion on November 10, 1977, and amended December 19, 2011, the same date used to update Article II's building code (§ 5-26), Article III's electrical code (§ 5-41), Article V's gas code (§ 5-81), and Article VI's heating and air conditioning code (§ 5-101), so the county revised all five trade codes together. Article VIII is separately cross-referenced to Chapter 8, Health and Sanitation. A former section, § 5-1, once codified the county's own permit fee schedule; an editor's note confirms it was removed at the county's instruction, so no independent county fee table for plumbing permits remains printed in the code, and permit fees instead follow the adopted state code's own procedures.

A separate scheme, Article IX's cross-connection control ordinance beginning at § 5-165, imposes additional backflow-prevention requirements on plumbing tied into the Moore County Public Utilities or East Moore Water District systems, administered by the county's Public Works Department, but that article regulates cross-connections, not the base plumbing permit adopted here.