Building Safety in Ohio (2026)

Akron's Lead Poisoning Hazards article flatly bans applying lead-based coatings on any exposed dwelling surface…

Dublin follows federal EPA RRP Rule and Ohio Department of Health lead regulations for properties built before 1978…

Euclid enforces federal RRP Rule (EPA 40 CFR 745) for renovations of pre-1978 housing. Ohio Department of Health lead…

Cincinnati's Board of Health bans selling, giving away, or using paint with more than nine-thousandths of one percent…

Toledo Municipal Code § 1759.02 makes it illegal to apply lead-based paint anywhere in a dwelling and requires owners…

Lead-paint rules in Canal Winchester follow federal EPA Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Rule and Ohio Department…

Anyone selling or leasing Cleveland housing built before 1978 must hand over an EPA lead hazard pamphlet, disclose in…

Columbus's Health Division inspects dwellings for lead paint above 0.3 milligrams per square centimeter, declares…

Ohio requires annual elevator inspections under Ohio Building Code and ORC Chapter 4105. The Ohio Department of…

Elevators in Dublin residential and commercial buildings are regulated by the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of…

Franklin County elevators are inspected and licensed by the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Industrial…

Elevators in Grove City commercial and multi-family buildings are regulated by the Ohio Department of Commerce Division…

Elevators in Lakewood multi-family and commercial buildings must be inspected and certified annually by the Ohio…

Ohio Department of Commerce regulates elevators under ORC Chapter 4105 and OAC 4101:5. Annual inspections required by…

Elevators in Pickerington multi-family and commercial buildings are regulated by the Ohio Department of Commerce…

Elevators in Westerville multi-family, commercial, and public buildings are regulated by the Ohio Department of…

Cincinnati's mandatory tenant notice under Municipal Code Section 871-11 spells out a landlord's duty to 'maintain in…

Elevators in Cleveland are regulated under the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Industrial Compliance and ASME…

Medina's Fire Prevention Code sets minimum size, door, and emergency-communication standards for every elevator in the…

Columbus requires buildings that already have an NFPA 13 or 13R sprinkler system to extend that protection to covered…

Medina's 2012 Property Maintenance Code amendment requires every automatic sprinkler system in the city to be…

Akron requires a City license before anyone runs a day nursery or children's boarding home. The Codified Ordinances…

Cleveland requires every licensed day care center to meet fixed building-safety standards: rooms must be above ground…

In Columbus residential districts, a child day care center is allowed only as an accessory use tied to a school or…

Dayton's Fire Code adds child-daycare-specific requirements on top of the state fire code, including a permit…

Parma's Zoning Code treats child and adult day-care buildings as public facilities: in a Single-Family House District…

Toledo's Property Maintenance Code bars locks or fasteners on required egress doors in most buildings. Toledo Municipal…

Dayton's housing code requires interior doors to fit their frames with working hardware and locking devices for…

Parma requires every outside swing door into a dwelling to carry two mortised locks, a spring-loaded dead latch plus a…

Medina adopted the International Energy Conservation Code, 2003 Edition, as its Model Energy Code for buildings…

Every Akron dwelling that runs a furnace, water heater, fireplace, or other fuel-burning appliance, or that shares a…

Cleveland requires owners of rental dwellings with fuel-fired appliances to install a UL-2034 carbon monoxide alarm…

Dayton's fire code requires carbon monoxide detectors outside every dwelling sleeping area, in rooms with fuel-burning…

Parma landlords must certify every year, as part of rental registration, that smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are…

Every short-term rental unit permitted in Toledo must have a carbon monoxide detector within 15 feet of all sleeping…

Cleveland requires every vacant building to be registered and inspected, producing a report of known code violations. A…

Akron requires a building permit before starting sitework, demolition, storage tank work, swimming pool installation…

Cincinnati's Director of Buildings and Inspections must inspect any permitted construction, alteration, repair or…

Columbus requires a permit from the building official before any construction, alteration, repair, or demolition, and…

Dayton makes it unlawful to build, alter, remove or demolish any building or structure, or change its use, without…

Medina requires a permit before any construction, enlargement, alteration, repair or removal of a residential building…

Parma requires a permit from the Building Commissioner before erecting, altering, repairing or removing any wall…

In unincorporated Summit County, no building or structure may be constructed, altered, removed or demolished, and no…

Toledo requires a building permit before any construction, alteration, removal, or demolition of a building or…

Cincinnati requires a separate electrical permit before any wiring or electrical equipment is installed, extended, or…

Cleveland Codified Ordinances § 3137.05 requires a permit from the Commissioner of Building and Housing before any…

Columbus requires an electrical permit before any wiring, alteration, or repair in a building, obtained by an…

Dayton requires anyone acting as an electrical contractor within the city to first register with the city, obtain a…

Medina has adopted the 2023 National Electrical Code as its Electrical Code under Codified Ordinance 1333.01, and every…

Parma requires a permit from the Chief Electrical Inspector before any electrical wiring, heating or power installation…

Summit County adopts Ohio's current Building, Mechanical, Plumbing and Residential Codes by reference, and any…

Electrical work in Toledo, installation, alteration, removal, replacement or repair, needs a separate permit from the…

Cincinnati adopts the Ohio Plumbing Code and requires a separate plumbing permit for plumbing work, issued only to a…

Cleveland Codified Ordinances § 3133.02 requires a permit from the Commissioner of Building and Housing before any…

Columbus requires a permit from the Department of Building and Zoning Services before any plumbing work, issued only to…

Dayton requires plumbing contractors to hold a city registration before the Department of Building Services will issue…

Medina enforces the 2024 Ohio Plumbing Code under Codified Ordinance 1345.01, adopted by Ordinance 32-24 in February…

Parma requires a Building Commissioner permit before any house drainage, plumbing or water supply work, performed only…

Plumbing work regulated by Ohio's adopted Plumbing Code needs a permit from the Summit County Building Official before…

Any plumbing installation, alteration, removal, replacement or repair in Toledo requires a separate permit from the…

Akron's Superintendent of Building Inspection enforces every stage of construction through mandatory field inspections…

Cincinnati's Department of Buildings and Inspections inspects permitted work under CMC § 1101-43 to confirm it matches…

Cleveland's Commissioner of Building and Housing inspects existing premises before permits issue, inspects work at the…

Columbus requires a sequence of building-official inspections for permitted work, from foundation through final, before…

Dayton's Building Official runs preliminary, staged, and final inspections on every permitted project, and covering…

Medina's Chief Building Official requires six named inspections during construction, footer, foundation, framing, rough…

Parma requires a final inspection and approved occupancy permit before any newly built, reconstructed, or added-to…

Summit County's Building Official inspects work at specific points during construction to confirm Building Code…

Certified inspections under Toledo's Building Code are made by the Chief Building Official or state-certified City…