Here in my town in Tennessee, we have a city building inspector, he deals with structure and framing, setbacks and zoning regs. we have a separate plumbing inspector, a rep from the fire dept, he says life safety issues, smoke detectors, sprinklers, exit lights, handrails for stairs, landings at exit doors, He does on occasion try to critique electrical installations, but on numerous occasions he has been reminded that this is neither in his job description nor his field of expertise. And we have a state electrical inspector, Non of these people work together of make any attempt to coordinate their activities, Aside from the state electrical inspector, the other guys are like watching a chinese fire drill. One of thems underworked one of them is overpaid and one is part time.
If you leave the city limits, and do any building in the county, all you have is the county health dept. to approve a septic system, and the state electrical inspector, for one rough in, and the final. There are no building code officals in the surrounding counties.
