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 this review (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. § 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.
• Per the 2024 AZBO Directory (the same statewide industry directory independently cross-checked for the neighboring City of Globe file, where it was found to be stale and superseded by a 2024 city ordinance), Winkelman's listed adopted codes are the 2006 International Codes (I-Codes) and the 2002 National Electrical Code (NEC). UNLIKE Globe, this research found NO subsequent Winkelman town ordinance, resolution, or published code-update document anywhere (Town of Winkelman website, Town of Winkelman Council Documents page, Arizona Memory Project archive, League of Arizona Cities and Towns records) that supersedes this 2006 I-Codes/2002 NEC listing. This 2006/2002 code-cycle citation should therefore be treated as the best-available but NOT independently re-confirmed-current figure — it could not be verified against a live Winkelman-specific ordinance text because no such published, hosted ordinance/code text (e.g., via Municode, CodePublishing, or the Town's own site) was found to exist for Winkelman as of July 2026. Source: 2024 Arizona Building Officials (AZBO) Directory, Town of Winkelman entry (206 Giffin Avenue, Clerk: Sylvia Kerlock). Re-checked 2026-07-23 against the newly-published 2026 AZBO Directory (azbo.us, live fetch) — the Winkelman entry is unchanged and still lists 2006 I-Codes/2002 NEC, meaning the same figure has now persisted across at least two directory editions (2024 and 2026); this makes it less likely to be a stale one-off data-entry error, but it is still an industry-directory listing, not a Winkelman-issued ordinance text, so it remains the best-available rather than an independently ordinance-confirmed figure.
• 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. § 41-4001 et seq., Arizona Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety / Office of Manufactured Housing) for construction/installation standards statewide, independent of local code adoption; any Winkelman site-placement/foundation/utility-connection permit would be layered on top of the state's factory-built-structure standards, consistent with the pattern seen in every other AZ jurisdiction in this dataset. 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 (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. Administered directly by the Town Clerk's office at Town Hall (206 Giffin Avenue) rather than by a dedicated Building Safety Department or named Building Official — a structural difference from every other jurisdiction file in this dataset (e.g., Buckeye, Globe), which run independent, staffed development-services operations. Reviewed against the Town's listed adopted codes (2006 International Codes and 2002 National Electrical Code, per the 2024 AZBO statewide directory), as no more recent Winkelman-specific code-update ordinance could be located.

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• 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 this file's 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.

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• 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 documented in this file's residential-building-permit and solar-pv-permit entries (no Building Safety Department, no online portal, permitting run entirely through the Town Clerk at Town Hall). 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. Re-chased 2026-07-20 (exhaustive, still no governing figure found): the Town's homepage was re-fetched live and remains the same 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. Checked whether either 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 — this confirms Winkelman is legally self-administering for other permit types (consistent with the Town Clerk-only model already documented) rather than deferring to the county. 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 extending Pinal County's fee schedule to Winkelman was found — this figure is NOT applied here since no confirmed mechanism connects it to Winkelman. No citable governing dollar figure or explicit fee/timeline mechanism exists anywhere for Winkelman; genuinely unpublished, not merely unchased.

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