Fallon building permits

Tips & gotchas

• The City of Fallon self-administers building permitting within city limits through its own Building Department (part of Engineering and Public Works) — it does NOT route to Churchill County. Churchill County's Building Department is a separate agency with its own, distinct jurisdiction over unincorporated county land only. Confirm which department has jurisdiction over your specific parcel before applying.
• Nevada has no single statewide-mandatory building code edition (unlike Montana) — each Nevada city/county adopts its own code editions. Always confirm the current adopted edition with the specific jurisdiction rather than assuming a 'Nevada standard.' The only statewide floor is the energy code requirement under NRS 701.220 (must be at least as stringent as the most recent published IECC).
• City of Fallon's currently adopted code family (per Code of Ordinances § 17.04.020, Ordinance No. 788, adopted December 2, 2025): 2024 IBC, 2024 IRC, 2024 IEBC, 2024 IFGC, 2024 IMC, 2024 ISPSC, 2024 UPC, 2024 UMC, 2024 IECC, 2023 NEC, plus the 2024 Northern Nevada Amendments (which extend the 'Lyon County' snow-load entry in IBC Table 1608.2.1 to also cover the City of Fallon).
• Fallon adopted BOTH the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) and, separately from most Nevada cities, the Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC) alongside the IMC — each with its own standard fee table (UPC/UMC Table 104.5) replaced by City-specific tables ('Table B' and 'Table C' respectively). Those substituted fee tables were not found published anywhere online as of this review.
• No valuation-based (or any other) building permit fee schedule is published on the City of Fallon website, in the Municode-hosted Code of Ordinances, or in the City Council agenda packets reviewed for this research. City Code § 17.08.080 confirms fees are 'established by the city council' rather than fixed in the ordinance text itself. Applicants must call the Building Department at (775) 423-5107 / (775) 423-9862 for current fee amounts.
• No published plan-review or permit-processing timeline (in business days or otherwise) exists for the City of Fallon, and this was chased to the governing code section rather than merely 'not found': the City's own pages defer the 'application review period' to a phone call to (775) 423-5107; neither permit-application PDF states a review timeframe; Nevada is home-rule with no statewide statutory review clock for local building departments (NRS Ch. 278 imposes none); and the City's controlling provision, Code of Ordinances § 17.08.070 ('Duty to issue permit'), directs the city engineer to grant the permit once plans are found compliant but sets NO number-of-days deadline. There is therefore no real figure to publish — call (775) 423-5107 for the current review period.
• GENUINELY UNPUBLISHED (escalated per the grounded-extraction policy, not invented): (1) building/electrical/plumbing/mechanical/roofing/demolition/fence permit FEE AMOUNTS — avenues exhausted: City website full-text scan (business-licenses page, homeowner-permits page), both Building Department PDF forms (permit application, fee-related form) extracted via pypdf, Municode-hosted Code of Ordinances Chapters 17.04/17.08/2.12/21.28/21.32, a 124-page City Council agenda packet full-text-searched for 'fee schedule,' Wayback Machine CDX listing of fallonnevada.gov (5,000 URLs scanned for 'fee'), and general web search for a master/consolidated fee schedule; (2) a published plan-review/permit TURNAROUND TIMELINE — same avenues exhausted, with the City's own pages explicitly deferring this to a phone call rather than publishing a figure.
• No dedicated Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinance or permit type was found — Fallon's R-1 zoning provisions allow 'additional single-family dwellings' on a lot (subject to per-unit minimum lot area and 25-foot separation) but do not use ADU terminology or set out a distinct ADU permitting pathway.
• Fences around swimming pools must be at least 8 feet high in Fallon (City Code § 21.28.082) — taller than the general 6-foot yard maximum and taller than many neighboring jurisdictions' pool-fence minimums; don't assume a standard 4-5 foot pool fence height here.
• Moving a building into or within Fallon (Chapter 17.28) is a distinct, more involved process than demolition or ordinary construction permitting — it requires a City Council public hearing with notice mailed to owners within 300 feet, not just a Building Department permit.
• The City's Building Permit Application form allows roofing, siding, and certain other minor permits to be submitted by scan/email in addition to in-person submittal at the counter (per the more recent 'City-of-Fallon-Building-Department-Permit-Application' PDF version, which lists email/fax submittal to a named staff contact).