Carlin building permits

Building department

Address

820 Oak Street, PO Box 340, Carlin, NV 89822

Phone

(775) 754-6515

Email

permits@carlinnv.gov

Office hours

Not published on the City of Carlin website; the Building Department's Permit Application Procedures document states that all inspections are performed Tuesday through Thursday, and that inspection arrangements must be made at least 24 hours in advance by calling (775) 754-6515. The Building Official is Anna Penola. The department is part of the City's Public Works Department; permit applications are submitted online via the GovWell portal (app.govwell.com/carlin-nv), accompanied by two complete sets of 11x17 wet-stamped plans plus one set through GovWell.

Website

Official site

Permit portal

Apply online at Carlin's portal

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Carlin — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.

Codes adopted

Nevada does not mandate a single statewide building code edition. Under NRS 278.580, the governing body of each city or county may adopt its own building code, specifying design, soundness, and materials of structures, together with rules and ordinances for enforcement — a home-rule framework in which each jurisdiction selects and amends its code independently. There is no state-mandated IBC or IRC edition. The one statewide floor is for energy: under NRS 701.220, the Governor's Office of Energy (GOE) is required to adopt the most recently published edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) on a triennial basis. Upon adoption by GOE, local governments must incorporate that edition as the minimum energy standard and may adopt higher or more stringent requirements. GOE adopted the 2024 IECC, effective August 18, 2024, pursuant to NAC 701.185. Because building code editions, local amendments, and energy code effective dates vary by jurisdiction across Nevada, always confirm the current adopted edition and any local amendments with your specific city or county before submitting plans.

• Nevada is a home-rule state for building codes: there is no single mandatory statewide building-code edition — each city and county adopts and amends its own code. Always confirm the specific adopted edition for the city or county in question rather than assuming a uniform statewide building code or that a neighboring city's (e.g., Elko's) adopted editions apply. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures (Revised 5-19-2026).
• 2018 International Building Code (IBC), with Appendices C, E, I and J, with amendments, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 International Residential Code (IRC), Chapters 1-44 and Appendices A, B, C, H, J and K, with amendments, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC), Chapters 1-17, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC), Chapters 1-17 and Appendices A, B, D, E, I and L, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 International Fire Code (IFC), with all additions/deletions as adopted by the Nevada State Fire Marshal per NRS/NAC 477, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), with amendments, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 International Fuel Gas Code, Chapters 1-8 and Appendix A, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Chapter 5, adopted by the City of Carlin (edition year not specified in the source document). Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, Chapters 1-11, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2018 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 54 and 2017 NFPA 58, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• 2017 National Electrical Code (NEC) — referred to in the Permit Application Procedures as the '2017 International Electric Code,' which is a City-document naming artifact; the NEC is published by the NFPA, not ICC. The City's own Detached Garage/Storage Building handout separately confirms alignment with the '2017 National Electric Code.' Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures; City of Carlin Single Family Residential Detached Garage and Storage Buildings handout.
• 2017 ICC A117.1-2017, Standard for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities, adopted by the City of Carlin. Source: City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.
• Necessary Administrative Procedures as outlined in the Carlin City Code, per the City of Carlin Permit Application Procedures.

Permit types & fees

• Residential Building Permit (New Construction / Addition / Remodel)

  Required for new single-family residential construction, additions, remodels, and structural alterations within Carlin city limits. Reviewed against the 2018 IRC (Chapters 1-44 and Appendices A, B, C, H, J, K, with amendments) and the City's minimum design criteria by the Building Department (Public Works), with plan submittal via the GovWell online portal plus wet-stamped paper plan sets.

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• Detached Garage / Storage Building Permit

  Required for single-family residential detached one-story garages and storage buildings in Carlin over the 200-square-foot permit-exempt threshold. Uses a City-published basic plan-submittal guide developed under the 2018 IRC, covering foundation, framing, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical requirements specific to detached accessory structures.

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• Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Permit

  Carlin has no dedicated solar/photovoltaic permit type or application form -- confirmed directly against the City's own Building Permit Application (a single universal form for all trades), which offers only 'Building,' 'Plumbing,' 'Electrical,' 'Mechanical,' and 'Grading' as circled Permit Work options, with 'New,' 'Addition,' 'Remodel,' 'Repair,' 'Move,' or 'Remove' as the Permit Class. A rooftop or ground-mount solar PV installation in Carlin would be filed on this same universal form, typically circling both 'Building' (for racking/structural mounting) and 'Electrical' (for grid interconnection), and reviewed under the City-adopted 2018 IRC/IBC and the code the City's own documents label the '2017 International Electric Code' (the National Electrical Code, 2017 edition).

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• Commercial Building Permit

  Required for commercial construction, additions, and alterations within Carlin city limits. Plans must be designed by a Nevada State Registered Architect, Registered Engineer, or Licensed Contractor per Nevada State Law, and reviewed against the 2018 IBC (with Appendices C, E, I, J and amendments) plus routing to the Nevada State Fire Marshal and, for certain use types, the Nevada State Division of Health.

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• EV Charger / EVSE Permit

  Carlin has no dedicated EV-charger/EVSE permit type, application, or fee line -- confirmed directly against the City's own universal Building Permit Application, which offers only 'Building,' 'Plumbing,' 'Electrical,' 'Mechanical,' and 'Grading' as circled Permit Work options, with 'New,' 'Addition,' 'Remodel,' 'Repair,' 'Move,' or 'Remove' as the Permit Class. A residential or commercial EV charger installation (e.g., a dedicated 240V Level 2 circuit) would be filed on this same universal form, circling 'Electrical' as the Permit Work, and reviewed under the code the City's own documents label the '2017 International Electric Code' (the National Electrical Code, 2017 edition). No fee schedule for ANY Carlin permit type -- including electrical -- is published on the City website or in its downloadable PDFs, consistent with the same documented, City-wide gap noted in this file's own solar-pv-permit entry. Independently re-chased on 2026-07-20: re-fetched the Building Department page directly (no EV/EVSE/fee-schedule content), searched for a separate City of Carlin fee-schedule PDF or ordinance (none found), and confirmed Nevada has no statewide DOPL/State-Fire-Marshal-style default electrical permitting mechanism comparable to Idaho or Wyoming that would supply a governing figure in the City's absence -- Nevada electrical licensing is administered by the State Contractors Board (NRS 624) but permitting/inspection itself is a local-government function with no statewide fallback fee schedule. Confirmed no citable governing dollar figure exists anywhere for this permit type.

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• Sign Permit

  Required under the Carlin Sign Code (City Code chapter 3-4) to erect, enlarge, alter (beyond normal maintenance), or relocate any permanent sign within Carlin city limits. The chapter adopts the Uniform Sign Code and chapter 10 of the Uniform Zoning Code (as issued by the International Conference of Building Officials), with local amendments requiring a main disconnect/switch on illuminated signs and giving the Board of Councilmen review authority over Board of Appeals decisions. Special use permits are additionally required for off-premises freestanding signs and for signs exceeding the allowable display area or height for their zoning district.

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• Fire Sprinkler & Fire Alarm System Plan Review / Permit (Nevada State Fire Marshal)

  Carlin has no separate city-issued fire sprinkler or fire alarm permit and no local fire marshal plan-review capacity of its own. Per the City's own Permit Application Procedures (already cited elsewhere in this dataset), all commercial occupancies and all residential occupancies greater than a duplex must have their plans -- including fire protection systems such as sprinklers and alarms -- submitted to and approved by the Nevada State Fire Marshal Division, with a copy of that approval provided to the City of Carlin Building Department at the time of building-permit application. This reflects Nevada's fire-code jurisdiction structure under NAC 477: local governments in counties under 100,000 population (Elko County's population is well under this threshold) are the 'authority having jurisdiction' for fire-code plan review only if they have an interlocal agreement with the State Fire Marshal meeting equivalency standards; Carlin's own published procedures describe no such delegation for fire life-safety plan review, so the State Fire Marshal Division is the reviewing/permitting authority for this scope of work.

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• Certificate of Occupancy / Change of Use

  Carlin has no standalone change-of-use or certificate-of-occupancy permit application, checkbox, or fee separate from its universal Building Permit Application -- confirmed against the City's own universal form, which (per this file's solar-pv-permit and ev-charger-permit entries) offers only 'Building,' 'Plumbing,' 'Electrical,' 'Mechanical,' and 'Grading' as Permit Work options, with no 'Change of Use' or 'Certificate of Occupancy' line item. However, the certificate-of-occupancy mechanism is not absent from Carlin's code: City Code section 2-1-2 fully adopts the 2018 International Building Code, chapters 1 through 35, which governs a jurisdiction's certificate-of-occupancy process (IBC chapter 1, section 111) including the requirement that no change in use or occupancy classification of a building may occur without the building official's approval. A change of use or occupancy in Carlin would therefore be filed as a 'Building' permit (typically an 'Alteration'/'Remodel' Permit Class) on the universal application, reviewed against the adopted 2018 IBC, with any required certificate of occupancy issued by the Building Official as part of that same permit's final inspection and approval -- not as a separately named, separately feed permit product.

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