St. Martin Parish, LA Swimming Pools & Spas: Pool Permits (2026)

The St. Martin Parish Code does not hide pools in a general category. Sec. 8-5(a) sets the fees for building permits, and the RESIDENTIAL PERMITS schedule has its own row: Swimming Pools, $3.50 per $1,000.00 based on the cost of construction. Beneath it the schedule prints a Minimum Permit row of $100.00, and a Plan Review row of $70.00 appears in the same residential list. The basis is the cost of construction, so the fee follows what the pool costs to build rather than a flat charge.

The permit itself comes from Sec. 8-1, which says no person shall construct or cause to be constructed any structure without a permit to construct same from the parish building permit agent. Sec. 8-5(a) then requires the designated agent of St. Martin Parish Government to collect the fees before the permit issues, and the applicant must present, with the application, plans, specifications and/or blueprints setting forth in precise numbers the total square footage of the proposed building.

Sec. 8-5(b) adds that outbuildings such as unattached garages, workshops, sheds, pool houses and the like are permitted on a square footage basis, so a pool house is priced separately from the pool. Sec. 8-2(a) adopts the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code for the unincorporated areas of the parish, and under Sec. 8-3 the parish inspector, designated by the parish president and certified under the state council's requirements, enforces the adopted codes. The schedule's general inspection items are $50.00 each for re-inspection, extra or partial inspection, over time inspection and general inspections, and an out of town inspection is $150.00. Sec. 8-4 lets the parish president use certified third party providers for plan review and inspection.