No inspections on residential? ABSURD! This is totally alien to me, as we have trench, rough in, and final at the very least.
Do a lot of houses burn down there? I would imagine dead outlets are the very least of your concerns.
The only way around this that I can see is to lobby for mandatory inspections on electrical work. This alone would put 90% of the "carpenter/electricaians" right out of the wiring game.
There are more perfect arguments for electrical inspections than I can even start to list here, but safety is a huge catagory all it's own.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around a municipality that doesent require permits/inspections on electrical work. CRAZY!