Plano, TX Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- 2024 International Plumbing Code
- Registration renewal
- annually, same date each year
- Lapsed registration effect
- no permits or inspections issued
- Administrative authority
- City building official
- Max civil penalty
- $1,000/day per offense
Summary
Plano registers every plumbing contractor working in the city on an annual basis and will not issue permits or inspections to a contractor whose registration has lapsed. The city has adopted the 2024 International Plumbing Code as its plumbing code, enforced through the building official's office.
(a)All plumbing contractors who provide plumbing services to city residents or businesses shall be registered by the city on a form acceptable to the building official.(b)City registration issued under this division shall expire annually on the date of the original registration. No permits or inspections will be issued or completed for a contractor whose registration has expired. ... The 2024 Edition of the International Plumbing Code a publication of the International Code Council (I.C.C.), is hereby adopted and designated as the plumbing code of the city, to the same extent as if such code were copied verbatim in this section, subject to the deletions, additions and amendments prescribed in this division.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 153).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 6-221(a) requires 'all plumbing contractors who provide plumbing services to city residents or businesses' to register with the city on a form the building official accepts. Registration expires annually on the anniversary of the original registration date, and Sec. ' On the code side, Sec. 6-237 adopts 'the 2024 Edition of the International Plumbing Code' as the plumbing code of the city, 'to the same extent as if such code were copied verbatim in this section,' subject to the deletions and amendments the city council has approved; a copy is kept on file with the city secretary.
Sec. 6-238 designates the building official, and the official's agents and employees, as the 'administrative authority' responsible for interpreting and enforcing both the division and the adopted plumbing code. The 2024 Plumbing Code amendments folded into Sec. 6-239 also cover items such as nonflammable medical gas provisions (Sec. 1) and add ASTM D2321 as a reference standard for underground thermoplastic sewer pipe (Sec. 5), showing the city layers its own technical amendments onto the ICC base text rather than adopting it unmodified.
Violations & Fines
Sec. 6-236 makes any violation of the plumbing article a misdemeanor subject to the fine schedule in Sec. 1-4(a), with each day a violation continues counted as a separate offense. The city may also pursue a civil action under V.T.C.A. Local Government Code, ch. 54, subch. B, with civil penalties reaching $1,000 per day for each offense.
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