Lexington, KY Swimming Pools & Spas: Pool Permits (2026)

Section 5-29's fee schedule lists swimming pools among the specific structures requiring a building permit before construction: for the erection of a residential swimming pool, the director of the division of building inspection collects a flat one-hundred-dollar fee, and for a commercial swimming pool, a flat two-hundred-dollar fee. 2, which explicitly excludes swimming pools from both the commercial six-cents-per-square-foot plan review charge and the twenty-five-dollar residential plan review charge, so a pool permit applicant pays the Section 5-29 erection fee without the added plan-review charge that applies to most other construction.

4 adds inspection fees of fifty dollars for a second re-inspection, doubling for each additional re-inspection needed before the pool passes. The permit requirement flows from Section 5-1, which designates the division of building inspection as the agency enforcing the Kentucky Uniform Statewide Mandatory Building Code and Kentucky Residential Code within the urban county, the state codes that actually set the pool's construction and barrier standards; the LFUCG fee schedule in Section 5-29 covers only the permit charge for erecting the pool itself.