Plumbing Permit in Julesburg, Colorado

Julesburg requires a plumbing permit for: Permit required from the Plumbing Inspector (or other designated official) before beginning any plumbing installation or alteration work in Town (Section 15.08.090); A permit may be issued to a homeowner to install/alter plumbing in their own owner-occupied single-family residence, provided the homeowner does the work personally; Contractors/firms must hold a Town of Julesburg plumbing license (fee set by the Board of Trustees) plus bond or proof of insurance (Sections 15.08.180-15.08.210, as updated by Ordinance No. 23-472, 2023); Governed by the American Standard National Plumbing Code as locally adopted (Section 15.08.010) — confirm currently enforced plumbing code edition directly with Town Hall, as this base reference predates the Town's 2023 ICC-family code modernization and Ordinance No. 23-470's 2018 code adoptions did not explicitly reference a plumbing-code edition change in the portions reviewed. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Town of Julesburg — Town Hall / Building Official (Town Manager or designee) at 970-474-3344 before starting work.

In Julesburg, the published Plumbing Permit / Inspection Fee (base application) is: No fixed dollar figure is codified — 'all applications will be subject to the market fee for items to be inspected' (Municipal Code Section 15.08.100(A), text as fully replaced by Ordinance No. 23-472 § 2, 2023). Additional published fees: Additional inspection trip (applicant not ready / re-inspection) — $25.00. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Julesburg does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Julesburg — Town Hall / Building Official (Town Manager or designee) at 970-474-3344 for current turnaround.

You'll need: Plumbing Permit Application. Depending on your project, Julesburg may also ask for: Town of Julesburg Plumbing License. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Julesburg requires 2 inspection(s) for a plumbing permit, in order: Rough-in Inspection, Final Certificate of Inspection. Schedule each through Town of Julesburg — Town Hall / Building Official (Town Manager or designee) (970-474-3344).

Apply through Town of Julesburg — Town Hall / Building Official (Town Manager or designee) at 100 West 2nd Street, Julesburg, CO 80737. Phone: 970-474-3344, email: julesburg@live.com. Office hours: No published office hours specific to permitting were found on the Town's website; general Town Hall contact is 970-474-3344 (fax 970-474-3345). Julesburg is a statutory town with no dedicated 'Building Department' webpage — permitting is administered out of Town Hall by the Building Official (per Municipal Code Section 15.04.030, an office whose appointment now functions through the Town Manager or designee, per Ordinance 23-472's 2023 update naming the Town Manager/designee as inspector for the plumbing and electrical trades specifically).. Official information: https://www.townofjulesburg.com/.

Julesburg, Colorado has adopted: 2018 International Building Code (IBC), as locally amended — Town of Julesburg Municipal Code Chapter 15.04, adopted by Ordinance No. 23-470 (passed June 5, 2023); 2018 International Residential Code (IRC), as locally amended — same Ordinance No. 23-470; 2018 International Mechanical Code (IMC), as locally amended — same Ordinance No. 23-470; 2018 International Fire Code (IFC), as locally amended — same Ordinance No. 23-470; 2018 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), as locally amended — same Ordinance No. 23-470; 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), as locally amended — same Ordinance No. 23-470; Legacy 1965-edition National Electrical Code base text remains codified at Municipal Code Chapter 15.12 (Ord. 268(3), 1967) and has NOT been superseded by a newer NEC edition adoption ordinance found in this corpus's document chase; Ordinance No. 23-472 (2023) updated ONLY the licensure/permitting administrative sections (15.12.070, 15.12.090) for electrical work, not the substantive wiring-code edition. Confirm the currently enforced NEC edition directly with Town Hall (970-474-3344) before relying on a specific cycle for electrical plan review — this is a genuine open question after full document chasing, not an assumption.; Ordinance No. 23-470 explicitly repeals all conflicting/inconsistent prior Town of Julesburg ordinances and supersedes the original 1967 Basic Building Code (BOCA) and 1965 National Electrical Code base adoption at Chapter 15.04, replacing the substantive building/residential/mechanical/fire/fuel-gas/energy code editions with the 2018 ICC family; the base administrative/licensing chapters for Plumbing (15.08) and Electrical (15.12) remain independently codified from 1967 as amended by Ordinance No. 23-472 (2023).; Frost line: 36 inches below finished grade (IBC Section 1809.5 local amendment, Ordinance No. 23-470).; Ground snow load: 20 psf (Table R301.2, as locally amended, per the adopted Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria table in Ordinance No. 23-470) — figure is somewhat garbled in the source PDF's OCR ('2012fil'), read here as 20 psf; confirm directly with the Building Official before relying on this for structural design.; Wind design speed: 112 mph (Table R301.2, as locally amended).; Ice barrier underlayment required per Section R905.1.2 (2018 IRC as amended): required on roofs with a slope equal to or less than 4:12, consisting of not fewer than two layers of cemented underlayment or a self-adhering polymer-modified bitumen sheet, extending from the lowest roof edge to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line — this is a slope-triggered requirement, not a 100%-of-all-roofs rule.; Flood hazard areas established by reference to 'The Flood Plain Information Report: South Platte River for the Town of Julesburg and Sedgwick County, Colorado' (dated May 18, 2021) plus the accompanying FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM), per Section 1612.3 local amendment; Chapter 15.32 'Flood Damage Prevention' is a separate standalone chapter of the Municipal Code (not modeled as a permitType, but is a co-applicable regulatory layer for any parcel in a mapped flood hazard area).; Elevation for Manual J design criteria: 3,470 ft; Latitude 40.9883°N; Winter design dry-bulb 0°F (indoor 70°F referenced); Summer design dry-bulb 90°F (outdoor); Indoor summer relative humidity gains blank/not legible in source; per the adopted Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria table, Ordinance No. 23-470.; Unvented gas log heaters and unvented room/decorative heaters are PROHIBITED under locally amended IRC Section R1004.4 and IMC Section 903.3 / IFGC Section G2445.1 (Ordinance No. 23-470) — a materially stricter local amendment than the base ICC text.; Automatic fire sprinkler systems requirement (IRC Section R313) is DELETED IN ITS ENTIRETY by local amendment (Ordinance No. 23-470) — Julesburg does NOT require residential fire sprinklers for one- and two-family dwellings.; IBC Appendix Adoption Table (Ordinance No. 23-470): Adopted — Appendix AG (Flood-Resistant Construction), AH (Signs), AI (Patio Covers), AJ (Grading). Explicitly Not Adopted — Appendix AA (Employee Qualifications), AB (Board of Appeals), AC (Group U Agricultural Buildings), AD (Fire Districts), AE (Supplementary Accessibility Requirements), AF (Rodent-Proofing), AK (Administrative Provisions), AL (Earthquake Recording Instrumentation), AM (Tsunami-Generated Flood Hazards), AN (Replicable Buildings), AO (Performance-Based Application Index), AU (Cob Construction), AV (Board of Appeals, IRC table), AW (3D-Printed Building Construction).; IRC Appendix Adoption Table (Ordinance No. 23-470): Adopted — Appendix AH (Patio Covers), AQ (Tiny Homes). Not Adopted — Appendix RA (Solar-Ready Zone, Residential) among others listed Not Adopted.; HB22-1362 (Colorado 'Building Greenhouse Gas Emissions' Act, 2022) note, checked honestly rather than assumed: the Town's own adopted IRC/IBC Appendix Adoption Tables (Ordinance No. 23-470, June 2023) explicitly list Appendix RA (Solar-Ready Zone — Residential) and Appendix CA (Solar-Ready Zone — Commercial) as 'Not Adopted.' HB22-1362 does not create a flat population-based exemption for any jurisdiction (that premise is associated with a different, never-enacted bill, SB25-141, and was explicitly flagged as wrong going into this research); instead HB22-1362 requires jurisdictions updating to a later-triggering code cycle to adopt either the Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code, the Model Low Energy and Carbon Code, or — for rural counties that apply for and are not awarded state grants substantially assisting adoption/enforcement — energy codes achieving equivalent or better performance than the three most recent IECC editions. Julesburg's current adopted energy code is the 2018 IECC (adopted June 2023), and its own appendix table shows solar-ready provisions not adopted as of that ordinance. Whether/when HB22-1362's triggering mechanism reaches a town of Julesburg's size, and whether Sedgwick County or Julesburg has pursued the rural-county grant pathway, was NOT found published anywhere in the Town's ordinances, Sedgwick County's website, or general search after full chasing — flagged as a genuinely open/unresolved compliance question rather than invented.; Electrical and plumbing: Julesburg runs ITS OWN local licensing and inspection program — it does NOT defer to Colorado DORA state trade boards. Municipal Code Chapter 15.12 creates a Town 'electrical inspector' (referred to in the code as the 'city electrician') appointed by the mayor, and Chapter 15.08 creates a Town 'plumbing inspector.' Ordinance No. 23-472 (2023) updated the licensure sections so that the Town Manager or their designee now serves as plumbing inspector, and updated qualification/bonding requirements for both trades. Permits, licensing, bonding/insurance, and inspection-and-certificate sign-off for both trades are handled entirely at the Town level, not referred to DORA's State Electrical Board or State Plumbing Board.; No separately-published, dollar-denominated Building/Plumbing/Mechanical/Electrical permit fee schedule was found on the Town's website, its Documents/Forms & Applications library, or Ordinance No. 23-470/23-472 (both state fees are 'in accordance with a fee schedule adopted from time to time by the Town Board by resolution' — i.e. fees live in a separate resolution, not the ordinance itself, and no such resolution PDF is published online). The generic 'Application for Building Permit' and 'Application for Building Permit — Roofing & Siding' forms both have blank Permit Fee / Use Tax fields for Town Hall staff to fill in at submittal. Confirm current fees directly with Town Hall (970-474-3344) before budgeting — omitted rather than invented, per this corpus's zero-tolerance data policy.. Local amendments apply — see the Julesburg overview page for the full list.

Yes, if you are the owner and occupant of a single-family residence and perform the work yourself personally (not as a service to the public). You still need to obtain the regular plumbing permit for the job, per Municipal Code Section 15.08.090.