House Bill 110, Increase Building Permit Exemption Threshold, North Carolina (2021)

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House Bill 110 in the General Assembly of North Carolina, Session 2021, with the short title Increase Building Permit Exemption Threshold and the legend Committee Substitute Favorable 3/4/21. Its title reads An Act to Increase the Building Permit Exemption Threshold for Single Family Residences and Farm Buildings. Section 1 rewrites subsection (b5), the exclusion for certain minor activities in residential and farm structures, under which no permit is required for work costing a stated amount or less unless the work involves listed items such as load bearing structures or plumbing; both $15,000 and $20,000 are printed. Section 2 states that the act becomes effective October 1, 2021.

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                         GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                     SESSION 2021
     H                                                                                               2
                                        HOUSE BILL 110
                                Committee Substitute Favorable 3/4/21

     Short Title:   Increase Building Permit Exemption Threshold.                              (Public)
     Sponsors:
     Referred to:
                                            February 19, 2021

 1                                       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 2   AN ACT TO INCREASE THE BUILDING PERMIT EXEMPTION THRESHOLD FOR
 3       SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES AND FARM BUILDINGS.
 4   The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
 5               SECTION 1. G.S. 143-138(b5) reads as rewritten:
 6       "(b5) Exclusion for Certain Minor Activities in Residential and Farm Structures. – No
 7   permit shall be required under the Code or any local variance thereof approved under subsection
 8   (e) for any construction, installation, repair, replacement, or alteration performed in accordance
 9   with the current edition of the North Carolina State Building Code and costing fifteen thousand
10   dollars ($15,000) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or less in any single family residence or
11   farm building unless the work involves any of the following:
12               (1)    The addition, repair, or replacement of load bearing structures. However, no
13                      permit is required for replacements of windows, doors, exterior siding, or the
14                      pickets, railings, stair treads, and decking of porches and exterior decks that
15                      otherwise meet the requirements of this subsection.
16               (2)    The addition or change in the design of plumbing. However, no permit is
17                      required for replacements otherwise meeting the requirements of this
18                      subsection that do not change size or capacity.
19               (3)    The addition, replacement or change in the design of heating, air conditioning,
20                      or electrical wiring, appliances, or equipment.
21               (4)    The use of materials not permitted by the North Carolina Residential Code for
22                      One- and Two-Family Dwellings.
23               (5)    The addition (excluding replacement) of roofing."
24               SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2021, and applies to any
25   construction, installation, repair, replacement, or alteration on single family residences or farm
26   buildings occurring on or after that date.




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