North Las Vegas, NV Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- Uniform Plumbing Code 2024 Edition
- Local amendments
- Southern Nevada Amendments to 2024 UPC
- Governing section
- NLVMC § 15.16.010
- Latest re-adoption
- Ord. No. 3243, 7-2-2025
- Related chapter
- Ch. 15.28 water-conservation fixtures
Summary
North Las Vegas requires plumbing work to comply with the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code as locally amended. City Code § 15.16.010 adopts the UPC by reference, together with the Southern Nevada Amendments, setting the standard every plumbing permit must satisfy.
That certain document, one of which is on file in the office of the city clerk of the City of North Las Vegas, Nevada, which is marked and designated as "Uniform Plumbing Code, 2024 Edition" published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, together with all tables of contents, definitions, sections, tables, indexes, examples, and appendices, is hereby adopted by reference and made a part of this chapter, the same as if it was fully set forth herein, except as amended by the "Southern Nevada Amendments to the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code" as amended by the City of North Las Vegas.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 146 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
16 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code adopts the Uniform Plumbing Code in full. 010 provides that the document "marked and designated as 'Uniform Plumbing Code, 2024 Edition' published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, together with all tables of contents, definitions, sections, tables, indexes, examples, and appendices, is hereby adopted by reference and made a part of this chapter, the same as if it was fully set forth herein," except as modified by the city's Southern Nevada Amendments. Copies of both documents are on file with the city clerk.
The chapter has been re-adopted repeatedly to keep pace with new UPC editions, most recently by Ord. No. 3243 on 7-2-2025, following prior updates in 2020, 2018, and the original 2014 enactment (Ord. No. 2660). Because North Las Vegas adopts the model code wholesale rather than writing its own plumbing standards, permit applicants working through the Building Safety Division are held to the UPC's fixture, drainage, venting, and water-supply requirements as modified locally. 28, which cap flow rates on toilets, showerheads, and faucets installed after 1992-93 thresholds.
Violations & Fines
Plumbing work performed without a permit or that does not conform to the adopted 2024 UPC and Southern Nevada Amendments can be halted by the building official pending correction, and final inspection or certificate of occupancy will be withheld until the installation is brought into compliance. Unpermitted work is subject to Title 15's uniform code-adoption enforcement, including re-inspection and permit fees.
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