Town of Winkelman building permits

Building department

Address

206 Giffin Avenue, PO Box 386, Winkelman, AZ 85192

Phone

520-356-7854

Email

skerlock@townofwinkelman.com

Office hours

Winkelman is the smallest incorporated town in Arizona (2020 Census population 296) and does not operate a dedicated Building Safety/Development Services department, unlike the City of Buckeye or the City of Globe. Per the 2024 Arizona Building Officials (AZBO) statewide directory, permit/code administration is handled directly through the Town Hall by the Town Clerk, Sylvia Kerlock (skerlock@townofwinkelman.com), rather than by a named Building Official or Building Inspector position. The Town's own website (winkelmanaz.gov) is a minimal six-page site (Home, About, Town Council, Town Budget, Meeting Minutes, Contact Us) with no dedicated Building/Permits/Planning & Zoning page, no published fee schedule, and no A.R.S. § 9-835 licensing-timeframe posting found as of the last verification (July 2026). Office days are Monday-Thursday per third-party town-hall directories; exact public office hours are not independently published on the Town's own site. Applicants should call 520-356-7854 or email the Town Clerk directly to initiate a permit request.

Website

Official site

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Town of Winkelman — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.

Codes adopted

Arizona has no statewide building code for non-state buildings; codes are adopted locally. According to the International Code Council, codes are adopted locally in Arizona and are predominantly the I-codes, with different cities and counties choosing their own editions and local amendments. The Arizona State Fire Code (adopting the 2018 IFC) applies only to state and county buildings, public and private schools, and non-residential occupancies in areas without a locally adopted fire code — it does not establish a statewide residential or commercial building code floor. Each city and county adopts its own code editions independently, resulting in different I-Code years and amendment sets across jurisdictions. There is no state-mandated minimum edition; enforcement is entirely local. Always confirm the adopted edition and any local amendments with the specific jurisdiction before submitting plans.

• Arizona has NO statewide mandatory building code floor for general construction — code adoption is a per-jurisdiction (city/town/county) authority under state enabling statutes (A.R.S. Show full textShow less

  Arizona has NO statewide mandatory building code floor for general construction — code adoption is a per-jurisdiction (city/town/county) authority under state enabling statutes (A.R.S. § 9-802 for municipal adoption by reference). Unlike the City of Buckeye or City of Globe, the Town of Winkelman does NOT run an independent, staffed Building Safety Department with its own recently-updated code ordinance; it is administered directly out of the Town Clerk's office at Town Hall. Source: Town of Winkelman official website (winkelmanaz.gov), which has no dedicated Building/Codes page; 2024 Arizona Building Officials (AZBO) statewide directory entry for Town of Winkelman.

• The 2024 AZBO Directory lists Winkelman's adopted codes as the 2006 International Codes (I-Codes) and the 2002 National Electrical Code (NEC), and the Winkelman entry in the 2026 AZBO Directory (azbo.us) is unchanged —… Show full textShow less

  The 2024 AZBO Directory lists Winkelman's adopted codes as the 2006 International Codes (I-Codes) and the 2002 National Electrical Code (NEC), and the Winkelman entry in the 2026 AZBO Directory (azbo.us) is unchanged — the same listing has now persisted across two directory editions. No later Winkelman ordinance, resolution, or published code-update document appears on the Town of Winkelman website, its Council Documents page, the Arizona Memory Project archive, or League of Arizona Cities and Towns records, and no Winkelman code text is hosted on Municode, CodePublishing, or the Town's own site. (The same directory's entry for the neighboring City of Globe was superseded by a 2024 city ordinance.) Treat the 2006 I-Codes / 2002 NEC cycle as the best available figure — it is an industry-directory listing, not a Winkelman-issued ordinance text — and confirm the governing editions with the Town before designing to them. Source: 2024 Arizona Building Officials (AZBO) Directory, Town of Winkelman entry (206 Giffin Avenue, Clerk: Sylvia Kerlock).

• No Winkelman-specific local amendments to the adopted I-Codes/NEC (climatic/geographic design criteria table, exempt-work list, fee schedule, or similar) were found published anywhere by the Town. This is consistent with a town of Winkelman's extremely small size (296 residents per the 2020 Census) and lack of a dedicated Building Safety Department, Building Official, or hosted code-of-ordinances platform.
• Manufactured homes, mobile homes and factory-built buildings are regulated directly by the State of Arizona (A.R.S. Show full textShow less

  Manufactured homes, mobile homes and factory-built buildings are regulated directly by the State of Arizona (A.R.S. § 41-4001 et seq., Arizona Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety / Office of Manufactured Housing) for construction and installation standards statewide, independent of local code adoption. Any Winkelman site-placement, foundation or utility-connection permit is layered on top of the state's factory-built-structure standards. Source: A.R.S. § 41-4001 et seq.; Arizona Department of Housing, Office of Manufactured Housing.

• The Town of Winkelman does maintain its own Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) city code (City Code: WM) with the Arizona Department of Revenue, including distinct Contracting-Prime (015), Contracting-Speculative Builders… Show full textShow less

  The Town of Winkelman does maintain its own Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) city code (City Code: WM) with the Arizona Department of Revenue, including distinct Contracting-Prime (015), Contracting-Speculative Builders (016), and Contracting-Owner Builder (037) business codes, each taxed at 3.50% — confirming Winkelman functions as an independent municipal taxing/licensing authority for construction activity even though it lacks a dedicated building department. Source: Arizona Department of Revenue, Model City Tax Code, City Profile: Winkelman (azdor.gov/model-city-tax-code/city-profile/winkelman).

Permit types & fees

• Building Permit (New Construction, Residential and Commercial)

  Required for new construction and structural work within Town of Winkelman limits. The Town Clerk's office at Town Hall, 206 Giffin Avenue, administers building permits directly — there is no separate building safety department or named building official, so start with the Clerk. The Town's listed adopted codes are the 2006 International Codes and the 2002 National Electrical Code, per the 2024 AZBO statewide directory; no more recent Winkelman code-update ordinance is published, so confirm the governing edition with the Clerk before designing to it.

  See fee schedule→

• Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Permit

  Winkelman has no dedicated solar/PV permit category, application form, or fee schedule of any kind — consistent with the Town's minimal administrative structure documented in the residential-building-permit entry (no Building Safety Department, no online portal, permitting run entirely through the Town Clerk at Town Hall). A solar installation, if it requires a Town permit at all, would be administered ad hoc through the Town Clerk under the same 2006 International Codes/2002 NEC code-cycle citation used for other construction, and is subject to Arizona's statewide solar construction permit statute (A.R.S. § 9-468), which caps any Arizona municipality's solar permit fee at the actual cost of issuance.

  See fee schedule→

• EV Charger Installation Permit

  Winkelman has no dedicated EV-charger/EVSE permit category, application form, or fee schedule of any kind — consistent with the Town's minimal administrative structure (no Building Safety Department, no online portal; permitting is run entirely through the Town Clerk at Town Hall, as with the residential building and solar PV permits). An EV charger installation, if it requires a Town permit at all, would be administered ad hoc through the Town Clerk under the same 2006 International Codes/2002 NEC code-cycle citation used for other construction. No Arizona statute equivalent to the solar-specific A.R.S. § 9-468 fee cap applies to EV chargers. The Town's website remains a minimal 6-page CivicPlus-style site (Home, About, Town Council, Town Budget, Meeting Minutes, Contact Us, Municipal Court/Pay Court Fees) with no Building/Permits/Codes/Fees section of any kind. Neither county overlapping Winkelman's area administers permitting on the Town's behalf: Gila County's own Flood Control District page explicitly refers to Winkelman as 'the incorporated town of Winkelman' and covers only floodplain-construction questions there, not general building/electrical permitting — confirming Winkelman is legally self-administering for other permit types, consistent with the Town Clerk-only model. Pinal County separately publishes its own general Building/Electrical Permit Fee Schedule (electrical permit issuance fee $42.00, per Pinal County Building Safety), but no intergovernmental agreement, ordinance, or Town statement extends Pinal County's fee schedule to Winkelman, so that figure does not apply here. No citable governing dollar figure or explicit fee/timeline mechanism is published anywhere for Winkelman.

  See fee schedule→

• Commercial Building Permit (No Distinct Commercial Process — Routes Through the Town's Single General Building Permit)

  The Town of Winkelman has no distinct commercial building permit process, commercial plan-review track, commercial fee schedule, or tenant-improvement permit category of any kind. Commercial construction is covered by the Town's single, general building permit — the residential-building-permit entry is titled 'Building Permit (New Construction, Residential and Commercial)' because that one Town Clerk-administered process is all that exists. That fits the town's scale: Winkelman is the smallest incorporated town in Arizona (2020 Census population 296, historically tied to the adjacent Hayden copper smelter, whose 2019 closure removed the area's dominant employer), with no Building Safety Department, no named Building Official, no online portal, no published fee schedule and no published application form. The Town's website (winkelmanaz.gov) is a minimal site — Home, About, Town Council, Town Budget, Meeting Minutes, Contact Us, Municipal Court, Pay Court Fees — carrying no building, permits, planning-zoning or fees content, and no Winkelman-specific commercial-permit or tenant-improvement document exists anywhere else. Gila County's Building Safety page states that the county division 'regulates the construction, demolition, and occupancy of all buildings within the unincorporated areas of Gila County'; no IGA covering Winkelman exists, so the county does not run commercial permitting for the town. That county page rejects automated access — open it in an ordinary web browser. Commercial applicants deal directly with the Town Clerk at Town Hall.

  See fee schedule→

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