Prescott Valley, AZ Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)

Section 7-06-005 adopts the International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2018 Edition, with Appendices B, C, D and E, as one of the technical codes of the Town of Prescott Valley. Section 7-06-010 retitles it the International Plumbing Code of the Town of Prescott Valley and deletes IPC Sections 102 (Applicability), 103 through 105, 106 (Permits), 107 (Inspections and Testing), 108 (Violations), 109 (Means of Appeal) and 110 (Temporary Equipment, Systems and Uses). Those functions run through Article 7-01 of the Town Code, and the code official is the Building Official defined in § 7-01-040.

Local amendments are specific. Section 7-06-030 sets the minimum depth of building sewers at 18 inches below grade. Section 7-06-060 requires plumbing fixtures to connect to the public water system when it is available in an abutting easement, thoroughfare or right-of-way, counts the system as available when it is three hundred (300) feet or less from the proposed building or fixture, and bars any permit for a private water system where a connection is available. Section 7-06-070 applies the same 300 foot test to the public sewer. Its exception lets an existing single family dwelling on an approved private sewage disposal system stay connected, with written permission from the building official, only where no hazard, nuisance or unsanitary condition is evidenced and there is insufficient grade or fall for gravity drainage to the public sewer.

Permitting is in § 7-01-140. No building permit issues until the building official approves a Sewer Connection Plan showing the location and depth of any present or proposed public sewer, the proposed building sewer location and the ability to connect by gravity flow or otherwise. A plumbing permit is not required to stop leaks in drains, soil, waste or vent pipe or to clear stoppages, but replacing a defective concealed pipe counts as new work that needs a permit and inspection.