Yerington building permits

Building department

Address

14 E. Goldfield Avenue, Yerington, NV 89447

Phone

(775) 463-3511

Email

pauls@yerington.net

Office hours

Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Primary contact: Paul Shapiro, (775) 364-8895 or (775) 463-3511, pauls@yerington.net. Secondary contact: Steve Douglas, Building Inspector, (775) 634-7422, steved@yerington.net. Building Department fax: (775) 463-2284. A 24-hour advance notice is required to schedule inspections. Projects outside city limits fall under Lyon County Building Department, (775) 463-6591.

Website

Official site

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Yerington — 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. Show full textShow less

  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. The only genuine statewide floor is the energy code, referenced through NRS 701.220, which directs the State Office of Energy to adopt and update energy-efficiency standards for new construction. Always confirm the specific adopted edition for the jurisdiction in question rather than assuming a uniform statewide code. Source: Nevada Legislature NRS Chapter 701 (State Office of Energy).

• International Building Code (IBC), 2018 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington per Yerington City Code Title 1, Chapter 9. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025), cover sheet 'Building Codes Adopted by the City of Yerington.'
• International Residential Code (IRC), 2018 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington per Yerington City Code Title 1, Chapter 9. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• International Existing Building Code (IEBC), 2018 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), 2018 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington (also satisfies the NRS 701.220 statewide energy floor). Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC), 2018 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington; Nevada jurisdictions commonly use the Uniform Plumbing Code rather than the International Plumbing Code. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC), 2018 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• National Electrical Code (NEC), 2017 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• International Fire Code (IFC), 2012 Edition — adopted by the City of Yerington; commercial projects are additionally subject to review by the Mason Valley Fire District (775-463-2261), which requires its own separate application, plan submittal, and fee. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• 2018 Northern Nevada Amendments (Northern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council / NNICC) — incorporated by reference into the codes adopted by the City of Yerington. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).
• The City of Yerington is a member of the International Code Council. Code adoption is referenced to Yerington City Code Title 1, Chapter 9. Source: City of Yerington Building Permit Application (PW106, Rev. 7, 06/2025).

Permit types & fees

• Residential Building Permit (New Construction)

  Required for construction of a new single-family dwelling within Yerington city limits, reviewed against the 2018 IRC and 2018 Northern Nevada Amendments as adopted by the City of Yerington. All work must be completed by a contractor holding both a Nevada State Contractors Board license and a City of Yerington business license, unless the owner completes the project themselves under the Owner Builder Affidavit of Exemption.

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• Residential Addition / Remodel Permit

  Required for room additions, remodels, decks, and fences within Yerington city limits, using the same universal Building Permit Application as new construction. The application form includes dedicated checkbox categories for Addition, Deck, Fence, TI (Tenant Improvement), and Repair.

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• Electrical Permit

  Required for electrical installation, alteration, or repair work in Yerington, governed by the 2017 National Electrical Code (NEC) as adopted by the City. Standalone electrical upgrades carry a dedicated inspection fee separate from the valuation-based building permit fee.

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• Plumbing Permit (Water Lateral / Sewer Lateral / Septic)

  Required for plumbing installation, water/sewer lateral connections, and septic systems in Yerington, governed by the 2018 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) as adopted by the City. Standalone site-utility plumbing work (water lateral, sewer lateral, septic) has dedicated flat inspection fees.

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• Mechanical / HVAC Permit (Including Wood Stoves)

  Required for furnace, HVAC, wood-stove, and pellet-stove installations in Yerington, governed by the 2018 Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC) as adopted by the City. Residential HVAC and wood-stove installations carry a dedicated flat inspection fee.

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• Re-Roofing Permit

  Required for roof-covering replacement in Yerington, using the universal Building Permit Application's dedicated 'Re-Roof' checkbox category. Priced from the same valuation-based Building Permit Fee as other building work.

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• Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Permit

  Required for installation of rooftop or ground-mounted solar photovoltaic systems in Yerington. The City's own universal Building Permit Application (PW106) includes a dedicated 'SOLAR' checkbox as its own recognized project category (alongside New, Addition, Re-Roof, Electric, etc.), confirming the City treats solar as a distinct permit type. However, solar is billed through the same general ledger account (01-13-00-3117, 'Building Permit Fee') and the same valuation-based Building Permit Fee / Plan Check Fee used for other construction — the City's Fee Schedule contains no separate dollar-figure line item specific to solar.

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• EV Charger / Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permit

  Yerington has no dedicated EV charger/EVSE permit category or fee line. Unlike solar, which the City's universal Building Permit Application (PW106) tracks as its own checkbox category ('SOLAR'), the application's category block has no separate 'EV' or 'ELECTRIC VEHICLE' checkbox — an EV charger installation is captured under the existing 'ELECTRIC' category, the same category used for any electrical work, and billed under the same GL 01-13-00-3117 valuation-based Building Permit/Plan Check fee mechanism (or the flat $85.00 Electrical Upgrade Inspection Fee under City Code 9-1-2-C2) documented in the electrical-permit entry. The City's Fee Schedule (Revision #33, revised 05/26/2026) contains no line item for 'EV,' 'electric vehicle,' 'EVSE,' or 'charging station.' That schedule lists 'Inspection Fee: Electrical Upgrade (9-1-2-C2) — $85.00 Each Inspection' and 'Re-inspection Fee (9-1-2-C2) — $85.00 Each Re-inspection.'

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• Sign Permit

  Required for installation of a sign within Yerington city limits. The City's own universal Building Permit Application (PW106) includes a dedicated 'SIGN' checkbox as its own recognized project category (alongside New, Re-Roof, Solar, etc.), confirming the City treats sign installation as a distinct permit type. However, like solar, a sign permit is billed under the same general ledger account (01-13-00-3117) and the same valuation-based Building Permit Fee / Plan Check Fee used for other construction — the City's Fee Schedule (Revision #33, revised 05/26/2026) contains no separate dollar-figure line item specific to signs. A direct review of Yerington City Code Title 10 (Zoning Regulations) confirms 'SIGN' is only a generically defined term (10-1-3: 'Any advertising method by which a person, profession, business, commodity or fact is made known...'); the Title's 14 chapters (Chapter 1 Title/Purpose/Definitions through Chapter 14 Right To Farm) contain no standalone Signs chapter establishing district-specific sign standards, height/area limits, or a distinct sign-permit fee — sign regulation in Yerington's own codified ordinances is limited to this single definition.

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• Fire Sprinkler / Fire Alarm Permit (Mason Valley Fire District Review)

  Yerington has no City-issued fire sprinkler or fire alarm permit, checkbox category, or fee line item of its own. Per the City's own universal Building Permit Application (PW106), Commercial Step 4 instructs applicants: 'Contact the Mason Valley Fire District at 775-463-2261 to find out if your project will be required to complete a fire review. The fire district will require a separate application and plan submittal in addition to a fee. The fire review must be completed and signed off before a city building permit can be issued.' Fire sprinkler/alarm plan review for property within Yerington city limits — not just unincorporated Lyon County — is therefore handled entirely outside the City's building-permit fee structure, by the Mason Valley Fire Protection District (also styled Yerington/Mason Valley Fire Protection District), an independent special district; this is the same arrangement documented for unincorporated Lyon County in lyon-county.json, confirming the City itself does not have a different arrangement. A live re-check of the District's own website (masonvalleyfire.org) shows only a single landing page with a tagline ('Protecting Lives and Property') and a generic name/email contact form — no fee schedule, plan-review application, or published timeline exists anywhere online for the District. Note: the City's own Fee Schedule (Revision #33) separately lists a '4" Fire Sprinkler Service — $5,000.00' and '5" and larger Fire Sprinkler Service — $7,500.00' line item under its Water utility section; this is a water-tap CONNECTION fee for the physical size of the water service line feeding a fire sprinkler system, billed by the City's Water Department — it is NOT a fire-sprinkler/alarm plan-review or permit fee, and must not be conflated with one.

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• Certificate of Occupancy (Change of Occupancy / Change of Use)

  Yerington does not have a standalone change-of-use or certificate-of-occupancy permit application, checkbox category, or fee line item separate from the general Building Permit process. The City's own universal Building Permit Application (PW106) states directly: 'A PROJECT IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL THE PERMIT FINAL IS SIGNED BY A CITY BUILDING OFFICIAL. THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT WILL RETAIN THE ORIGINAL BUILDING PERMIT ON FILE AND ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AS REQUIRED.' A Certificate of Occupancy is therefore issued as the final step of an underlying building permit (new construction, addition, TI, etc.) rather than as its own separately-applied-for, separately-fee'd product. Occupancy classification and change-of-occupancy requirements (e.g., when an existing building's use changes without accompanying new construction) are governed by the City's adopted 2018 International Building Code and 2018 International Existing Building Code (Yerington City Code 9-1-2), which the City has not further codified with any City-specific change-of-use application, checklist, or fee schedule of its own — Title 9 (Building Regulations) and Title 10 (Zoning Regulations) of the Yerington City Code contain no chapter dedicated to change of use or certificates of occupancy, and the Fee Schedule (Revision #33) contains no line item for either.

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• Commercial Building Permit (New Construction, IBC 2018)

  Required for new commercial construction within Yerington city limits, reviewed against the 2018 International Building Code and 2018 Northern Nevada Amendments as adopted by the City (Yerington City Code Title 1, Chapter 9). The City of Yerington administers its own building permits through its Building and Planning Department (14 E. Goldfield Avenue) — it does NOT defer to Lyon County within city limits; projects outside city limits fall to the Lyon County Building Department (775-463-6591), whose adopted codes (2024 suite) and fee schedule differ substantially. There is no separate commercial application form: the same universal Building Permit Application (PW106) serves both Commercial (IBC 2018) and Residential (IRC 2018) work, but the application publishes a dedicated five-step COMMERCIAL track with materially different rules — all commercial work must be completed by a licensed contractor (no owner-builder option), all commercial work is subject to mandatory Mason Valley Fire District review that must be signed off before the City can issue the permit, and the published commercial plan-review timeline is up to ninety days in some cases (versus up to ten days residential).

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• Commercial Tenant Improvement (TI) Permit

  Required for interior build-outs and improvements of commercial tenant spaces within Yerington city limits. 'TI' is its own checkbox category in the For Office Use block of the City's universal Building Permit Application (PW106) — listed alongside New, Repair, Demo, Addition, and the other project types — so the City formally recognizes and tracks tenant improvements as a distinct project category, the same way it does SOLAR and SIGN. However, TI is NOT a separately administered permit: there is no TI-specific application form, fee table, or published timeline. A commercial TI runs through the identical five-step commercial track as new commercial construction — licensed contractor only (no owner-builder for commercial or rental work), Tax Verification, valuation-based fees from the same Building Valuation Data Sheets (GL 01-13-00-3117), mandatory Mason Valley Fire District review before issuance, and the same published up-to-ninety-days commercial plan-review window. Governed by the 2018 International Existing Building Code and 2018 IBC as adopted (Yerington City Code Title 1, Chapter 9). If the improvement changes the space's occupancy classification, see the certificate-of-occupancy-permit entry — the City has no separate change-of-use application either.

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