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Plumbing Permit in Yuma, Colorado

Plumbing permits and inspections within City of Yuma limits are administered by the Colorado State Plumbing Board (Division of Professions and Occupations, DORA/DPO) rather than the City itself. Yuma County does not appear on the State's published list of counties with their own local Plumbing Inspection Program, so State jurisdiction applies. Governed by the most recent International Plumbing Code (IPC) edition adopted by the State of Colorado.

Verified 2026-07-06 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Confirmed NOT locally administered: Yuma County is absent from the Colorado DPO 'Plumbing Local Inspection Areas' exception list (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Chaffee, City of Pueblo/Town of Boone, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Eagle, El Paso, Elbert, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson, La Plata, Lake, Larimer, Mesa, Moffat, Pitkin, Prowers, Pueblo, Routt, Summit, Teller, Weld) — meaning the State, not the City, holds inspection jurisdiction
  • Yuma County's own official Land Use Contact List page directs applicants to the State's online plumbing permit system (dpo.colorado.gov/Plumbing) rather than a City or County office
  • Permit purchased through the State's Online Permitting System; residential installations require a fixture count (traps, water hammer arrestors, backflow preventers, water heaters, fuel gas outlets, fuel gas pressure regulators); commercial installations require a valuation of installation
  • A separate permit is required for each detached structure on the same property
  • Per State policy, the contractor/contractor representative or an adult homeowner (18+) or their representative must be present for inspection of occupied dwelling units

Required documents

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Fee schedule

State Plumbing Permit FeeFee amounts are determined by the State's own published Plumbing Board fee schedule (dpo.colorado.gov/Plumbing), not by the City of Yuma's Resolution #46 Fee Schedule, since the City does not administer this permit type
Set by the Colorado State Plumbing Board fee schedule (not a City of Yuma fee)

Review timeline

Plan review
Not published — contact the department

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Inspection process

  1. 1

    State Plumbing Inspection

    Scheduled directly with the assigned State Plumbing Inspector (not the City of Yuma Building Inspector) after permit purchase

See the full Yuma inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →

Tips

  • Do not apply for a plumbing permit through City of Yuma's Building Inspector — plumbing work in Yuma is governed by the State Plumbing Board, and the permit must be purchased through the State's own Online Permitting System (dpo.colorado.gov/Plumbing), not the City's Building Permit Application.
  • If you are a homeowner hiring a licensed Plumbing Contractor, the contractor is responsible for pulling the permit — as the homeowner, you should not submit the State's permit application yourself in that scenario.

Frequently asked questions

Yuma requires a plumbing permit for: Confirmed NOT locally administered: Yuma County is absent from the Colorado DPO 'Plumbing Local Inspection Areas' exception list (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Chaffee, City of Pueblo/Town of Boone, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Eagle, El Paso, Elbert, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson, La Plata, Lake, Larimer, Mesa, Moffat, Pitkin, Prowers, Pueblo, Routt, Summit, Teller, Weld) — meaning the State, not the City, holds inspection jurisdiction; Yuma County's own official Land Use Contact List page directs applicants to the State's online plumbing permit system (dpo.colorado.gov/Plumbing) rather than a City or County office; Permit purchased through the State's Online Permitting System; residential installations require a fixture count (traps, water hammer arrestors, backflow preventers, water heaters, fuel gas outlets, fuel gas pressure regulators); commercial installations require a valuation of installation; A separate permit is required for each detached structure on the same property; Per State policy, the contractor/contractor representative or an adult homeowner (18+) or their representative must be present for inspection of occupied dwelling units. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Yuma Building Inspection / Code Enforcement at 970-848-3878 (City Hall); 970-630-7118 (Building Inspector direct line) before starting work.

In Yuma, the published State Plumbing Permit Fee is: Set by the Colorado State Plumbing Board fee schedule (not a City of Yuma fee). These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Yuma does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact City of Yuma Building Inspection / Code Enforcement at 970-848-3878 (City Hall); 970-630-7118 (Building Inspector direct line) for current turnaround.

You'll need: State of Colorado Online Plumbing Permit (via DORA/DPO Online Permitting System). See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Yuma requires 1 inspection(s) for a plumbing permit, in order: State Plumbing Inspection. Schedule each through City of Yuma Building Inspection / Code Enforcement (970-848-3878 (City Hall); 970-630-7118 (Building Inspector direct line)).

Apply through City of Yuma Building Inspection / Code Enforcement at 320 South Main Street, Yuma, CO 80759 (mailing: PO Box 265, Yuma, CO 80759). Phone: 970-848-3878 (City Hall); 970-630-7118 (Building Inspector direct line), email: building.inspector@yumacolo.org. Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (City Hall, 320 South Main Street). Official information: https://cityofyuma.colorado.gov/building-inspection.

Yuma, Colorado has adopted: 2015 International Building Code (IBC) — per the City's own 'Roofing, Siding and Window Requirements' handout ('All projects must conform to Chapter 15 of the 2015 IBC, IRC and ICC as specified'; Siding requirements cite '2015 IBC Chapter 14 section 1403'); this is the most current, actively-maintained City-published statement of adopted edition found after full chasing.; 2015 International Residential Code (IRC) — same source as above.; 2015 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — RE-VERIFIED 2026-07-23 on a live primary source: Municode Chapter 15.28 (§15.28.010, 'Adopted') was read directly via the Browser pane (which renders Municode's Angular SPA server-side content client-side, unlike a plain fetch/curl request, which still returns only the app shell), current through Supplement No. 5 (codified through Ordinance No. 5-2025, adopted 4-15-2025; online content updated 7-25-2025). Full section text confirmed verbatim: 'There is hereby adopted by reference the International Existing Building Code, 2015 edition, as published by the International Code Council, as the Existing Building Code of the City of Yuma, Colorado, regulating and governing the repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings...' (Ord. 17-2018, 2018). This closes the prior partial-confidence flag, which had relied only on a search-engine-indexed snippet rather than a directly re-read chapter body.; 2015 International Fire Code (IFC) — RE-VERIFIED 2026-07-23 by directly reading Municode Chapter 15.16 (§15.16.010, 'Adopted') via the Browser pane, current through Supplement No. 5: 'There is hereby adopted by reference the International Fire Code, 2015 edition, as published by the International Code Council, as the Fire Code of the City of Yuma, Colorado...' (Ord. 17-2018, 2018) (administered by Fire Department, not modeled in this file's permitTypes).; 2015 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) — RE-VERIFIED 2026-07-23 by directly reading Municode Chapter 15.30 (§15.30.010, 'Adopted') via the Browser pane, current through Supplement No. 5: 'There is hereby adopted by reference the International Property Maintenance Code, 2015 edition...' (Ord. 17-2018, 2018) (administered by Code Enforcement, not modeled in this file's permitTypes).; Most recent International Plumbing Code (IPC) as adopted by the State of Colorado, adopted by reference by the City of Yuma — RE-VERIFIED 2026-07-23 by directly reading Municode Chapter 15.32 (§15.32.010, 'Adopted') via the Browser pane, current through Supplement No. 5: 'There is hereby adopted by reference the most recent International Plumbing Code, adopted by the State of Colorado, as published by the International Code Council, as the Plumbing Code of the City of Yuma, Colorado...' (Ord. 17-2018, 2018) — confirming the City ties its plumbing code edition to whatever the State of Colorado has adopted rather than naming a fixed edition year itself; see localAmendments for why plumbing permits/inspections are administered by the State Plumbing Board (DORA/DPO), not the City, for Yuma jurisdiction.; 2015 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), with the 2015 IECC/IRC Table R402.1.2/N1102.1.2 U-factor/SHGC table and the 2012 IECC/IRC Table R402.1.1/N1102.1.1 table both cited as applicable (values stated as identical between the two editions) in the City's 'Roofing, Siding and Window Requirements' handout, for window replacement energy compliance specifically.; 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) as adopted by the Colorado State Electrical Board — City of Yuma does not run its own local electrical program (see localAmendments); wiring work is governed by whatever NEC edition the State Electrical Board has adopted, verify current edition directly with the State Electrical Board (dpo.colorado.gov/Electrical) at time of permit, since the City does not separately publish or amend an NEC edition of its own.; No newer code-edition cycle (e.g. 2018, 2021, or 2024 IBC/IRC family) is referenced anywhere on the City's Building Inspection page, Permits and Forms page, Roofing/Siding/Window Requirements handout, or Building Permit Application form after full chasing (page fetch via full-header curl, PDF text extraction, and Municode search-index snippet) — the City's actively-maintained public materials consistently cite the 2015 ICC family, so this file records 2015 IBC/IRC/IEBC/IFC/IPMC as the governing adopted editions rather than assuming a later cycle. RE-VERIFIED 2026-07-23 with a genuinely new avenue — the Municode Library's own live Supplement History Table (nodeId=SUHITA, read directly via the Browser pane) — confirms the CURRENT codification is Supplement No. 5 (online content updated 7-25-2025), which lists every ordinance considered for codification through Ordinance No. 5-2025 (adopted 4-15-2025) as either 'Included' or 'Omitted'; no ordinance postdating 4-15-2025 (including no Dec-2025-era ordinance) appears anywhere in that table, and a direct read of every Title 15 code-adoption chapter (15.04, 15.10, 15.12, 15.16, 15.24, 15.28, 15.30, 15.32, 15.36, 15.40, 15.41) confirms each still cites its original 2015-cycle edition (or, for Chapter 15.24, the 1997 UCADB), with the only post-2018 touch to any of these chapters being the identical, uniform Ord. No. 3-2025 (4-1-2025) penalty-cross-reference amendment applied chapter-by-chapter — not a code-edition update. This is a live, direct, chapter-by-chapter confirmation (not an inference from absence), and closes this line to full confidence: as of 2026-07-23, Yuma has adopted no newer I-code cycle than 2015.. Local amendments apply — see the Yuma overview page for the full list.

No. Yuma County (which includes the City of Yuma) does not appear on the Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations' list of counties with a local Plumbing Inspection Program, so plumbing permits and inspections are handled by the State Plumbing Board through its own Online Permitting System, not by the City's Building Inspector.

Sources & verification

Verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-07-06.

Fees, timelines, and adopted codes are researched from each jurisdiction's published records — see how we verify. Requirements change and vary by project, so always confirm the current details with the Yuma building department before you submit. PermitBase is an independent reference and is not affiliated with any government agency.