Fayette County, GA Fire Regulations: Propane Storage (2026)

Under Fayette County Code Sec. 102-487, which lists work exempt from a residential building permit, subsection (3)e specifically names 'underground and above-ground storage tanks for liquefied petroleum gas (propane)' as permit-exempt work. That means a homeowner or contractor setting a propane tank on a lot in unincorporated Fayette County does not have to file a building permit application with the department of building safety before the tank goes in the ground or on its pad. The exemption is narrow: it covers only the tank installation itself, not everything connected to it.

Fayette County Code Sec. 102-1681, which adopts the International Fuel Gas Code under section 102-22, keeps LP-gas piping systems operating at 20 pounds per square inch gauge or less inside the gas code's coverage, running from the point of delivery to the outlet of the equipment shutoff valves; that piping still requires design, materials, installation, testing and inspection under the adopted gas code even though the tank itself is permit-exempt. Separately, Sec. 102-1681(4)a places 'portable LP-gas equipment of all types that is not connected to a fixed fuel piping system,' such as a grill cylinder, entirely outside the gas code's scope. Sec. ' All exempt work must still comply with Chapter 110 zoning.