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Adopted Construction Codes

These are the state-level code editions for Georgia. They apply in Tuckerunless a verified local adoption or amendment is noted — in local-adoption states, confirm the city or county's own code editions with the building department.

Code	Edition	Adoption
IBC — International Building Code	2024 IBC with 2026 Georgia State Amendments	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 110-11-1-.24, whose title on the Georgia Secretary of State rules portal (rules.sos.ga.gov/GAC/110-11-1-.24, read 2026-09-20) is exactly "International Building Code (IBC), 2024 Edition with 2026 Georgia State Amendments". Adopted by the Board / Department of Community Affairs as one of the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes under O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-20 et seq. OPERATIVE WORDS, READ FIRST-HAND 2026-09-20 IN THE ADOPTING AGENCY'S OWN AMENDMENT PACKET ("Georgia State Amendments to the International Building Code (2024 Edition)", Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Community Development Division, "Revised January 1, 2026"): "The INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE, 2024 Edition, published by the International Code Council, when used in conjunction with these and any other Georgia State Amendments to the INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE, 2024 Edition, shall constitute the official Georgia State Minimum Standard Building Code." * SOURCE CORRECTED THIS RUN: this row previously pointed at dca.georgia.gov/.../current-state-minimum-codes-construction, a bare agency LANDING PAGE carrying no adopting text -- the landing-page trap. source_url now points at the amendment packet that carries the operative sentence. * effective_date WAS NULL AND IS NOW 2026-01-01, TAKEN FROM THE PACKET'S OWN "Revised January 1, 2026" AND MATCHING THE RULE TITLE'S "2026 Georgia State Amendments". * NOT VERIFIED THIS RUN: the codified rule TEXT and History line. rules.sos.ga.gov renders rule bodies through JavaScript and returned only breadcrumb and page metadata to our fetcher; the TITLE quoted above is from that metadata and is the only part of the codified rule read first-hand. * EFFECTIVE DATE CHALLENGED AND CONFIRMED CORRECT, 2026-09-30, RUN 1823. The previous run found a DCA web announcement stating its codes carry "an effective date of January 1, 2027" and flagged that if that were a correction rather than a second wave, SIX VERIFIED GEORGIA ROWS WOULD BE WRONG BY A YEAR. IT IS NEITHER. THE ROWS ARE RIGHT AND effective_date 2026-01-01 STANDS. EVIDENCE, FROM THE INSTRUMENT OF RECORD RATHER THAN FROM AN AGENCY WEB PAGE: the GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR DECEMBER 2025 carries the Department of Community Affairs filing amending Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 110-11-1-.24, -.25, -.26, -.27 and -.31 — SUBMITTED Dec. 18, 2025, EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2026. NO EFFECTIVE DATE OF JANUARY 1, 2027 APPEARS ANYWHERE IN THE FILING. CORROBORATED BY TWO FURTHER DCA DOCUMENTS READ THE SAME DAY: the DCA memorandum of December 1, 2025 from Ted Miltiades, Director, Office of Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings, which names this exact code set and states the effective date "January 1, 2026"; and DCA's live "Current State Minimum Codes for Construction" page and green sheet ("GEORGIA STATE MINIMUM STANDARD CODES January 1, 2026"), both of which list these 2024-edition codes as MANDATORY AND IN EFFECT NOW. THE ANOMALY, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT RE-INVESTIGATED FROM SCRATCH: dca.georgia.gov serves the SAME 2027 text at BOTH announcement slugs (/announcement/2025-12-09/new-codes-jan-2026 AND /new-codes-jan-2027) — the 2026 slug appears to have been overwritten or redirected. That is a DCA WEBSITE ARTEFACT. A rule's effective date is fixed by its filing with the Secretary of State, not by an agency announcement page, and the filing says 2026-01-01. This is the same register-beats-agency rule that settled Texas on run 1820, applied a second time and holding a second time. · source ↗
IECC — International Energy Conservation Code	2015 IECC	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 110-11-1-.34 (International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), 2015 Edition with 2020, 2022, 2022 Additional and 2023 Georgia State Amendments), adopted by the Department of Community Affairs under O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-20 et seq. as one of the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes. Operative words from the adopting agency's own instrument: "The INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION CODE, 2015 Edition, published by the International Code Council, when used in conjunction with these Georgia State Supplements and Amendments and any other Georgia State Amendments, shall constitute the official Georgia State Minimum Standard Energy Code." Most recent amendment layer revised effective 2023-01-01. · source ↗
IFC —	STILL UNRESOLVED — 2018 IFC (the adopting agency's own published rule) vs 2024 IFC (DCA's description of it). DO NOT SERVE THIS ROW. But the gap is now much narrower and the evidence has moved decisively toward 2018. * THE DECEMBER 2025 AMENDMENT DID NOT TOUCH THE FIRE-CODE EDITION. That was the exact open question left by the previous run. ANSWERED THIS RUN from the rulemaking behind it: the Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner hearing notice of 2025-08-14 (hearing 2025-09-10) proposes amending "Rule 120-3-3-.04 relating to State Minimum Fire Safety Standards with Modifications" and states its purpose VERBATIM as to "clarify on the edition of NFPA 101, to modify NFPA 101 to add a new provision to provide certain exemptions for New Educational Occupancies not exceeding 12,000 square feet, to remove wording that is no longer applicable to the 2024 edition on NFPA 101, and to adjust syntax." THAT IS AN NFPA 101 RULEMAKING FROM END TO END AND PROPOSES NOTHING ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE. It is the rulemaking that produced the filing of 2025-12-08, effective 2025-12-28, amending 120-3-3-.03 and -.04. * NO GEORGIA RULEMAKING PROPOSING A 2024 IFC WAS FOUND ANYWHERE. The other OCI hearing notices checked this run concern NFPA 30, NFPA 30A and NFPA 58 (Chapters 120-3-11 and 120-3-16, hearing 2024-12-31) — not the IFC. * THIRD INDEPENDENT FIRST-HAND READ OF THE RULE, from a THIRD OCI document (oci.georgia.gov/document/document/120-3-3-0/download), paragraph (3) entry VERBATIM: "International Fire Code (IFC), 2018 Edition." Two other OCI documents were read by the previous run and say the same. Three official documents from the adopting agency; zero saying 2024. * THE ONE RESIDUAL, STATED PLAINLY SO IT IS NOT MISTAKEN FOR CLOSURE. The OCI rule PDF read this run PREDATES the 2025-12-28 amendment — TESTED, NOT ASSUMED: it does NOT contain the New Educational Occupancies 12,000 sq ft exemption the amendment added, and it names NFPA 101 with NO edition year where the amendment was meant to "clarify" one. So it is the PRE-amendment text and cannot by itself prove what the rule says today. verified_at THEREFORE REMAINS NULL. What is proven is that the amendment was not ABOUT the IFC; what is not proven is the post-amendment wording of (3)(c). *** WHAT CLOSES THIS IN ONE LOOK, now a single specific page: the post-2025-12-28 text of 120-3-3-.04(3)(c). rules.sos.ga.gov/GAC/120-3-3-.04 is JS-rendered and returns only nav (re-confirmed by the previous run). The December 2025 Georgia Monthly Bulletin IS fetchable and its table of contents WAS read this run, but the fetcher reaches only front matter, not the filing body at p. 217. A page-ranged read of that one page, or OCI reposting its rule PDF, settles it.	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 120-3-3-.04 (Rules and Regulations for the State Minimum Fire Safety Standards — State Minimum Fire Safety Standards with Modifications), paragraph (3), promulgated by the SAFETY FIRE COMMISSIONER (Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner). AUTHORITY AS PRINTED IN THE RULE, VERBATIM: "Authority: O.C.G.A. ss 25-2-4, 33-2-9, 50-13-21." * THE ENTRY AS THE COMMISSIONER PUBLISHES IT, VERBATIM, NOW FROM THREE INDEPENDENT OFFICIAL OCI DOCUMENTS: "International Fire Code (IFC), 2018 Edition." * AUTHORITY SETTLED AND NOT IN DOUBT: THE FIRE CODE IS NOT DCA'S. DCA's own current-codes listing describes the fire entry as the "2024 International Fire Code AS ADOPTED BY THE SAFETY FIRE COMMISSIONER", where its other seven entries read "with Georgia Amendments" — DCA expressly disclaims adopting it. Georgia's other State Minimum Standard Codes sit at Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. ch. 110-11-1 (DCA) under O.C.G.A. s 8-2-20 et seq. Where 120-3-3 and a DCA description disagree, 120-3-3 wins: it is the instrument, DCA's sheet is a description of it. The residual question is pure CURRENCY, not jurisdiction. *** LATEST FILING ON THE CHAPTER, read this run from the Georgia Secretary of State Monthly Bulletin for December 2025: 120-3-3-.03 and 120-3-3-.04 amended, FILED Dec. 8, 2025, EFFECTIVE Dec. 28, 2025. · source ↗
IFGC — International Fuel Gas Code	2024 IFGC with 2026 Georgia State Amendments	Georgia State Minimum Standard Gas Code -- the International Fuel Gas Code, 2024 Edition with 2026 Georgia State Amendments, adopted by the Department of Community Affairs as one of the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes under O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-20 et seq. OPERATIVE WORDS, READ FIRST-HAND 2026-09-20 IN THE ADOPTING AGENCY'S OWN AMENDMENT PACKET ("Georgia State Amendments to the International Fuel Gas Code (2024 Edition)", Georgia Department of Community Affairs, "Revised January 1, 2026"): "The INTERNATIONAL FUEL GAS CODE, 2024 Edition, published by the International Code Council, when used in conjunction with these and any other Georgia State Amendments to the INTERNATIONAL FUEL GAS CODE, 2024 Edition, shall constitute the official Georgia State Minimum Standard Gas Code." STATUTES CITED INSIDE THE PACKET ITSELF: O.C.G.A. Title 25, Chapter 15 (boilers and water heaters), with cross-reference to the Rules and Regulations of the Georgia Safety Fire Commissioner's Office. * THE PRIOR CITATION WAS 40 CHARACTERS ("GA State Minimum Gas Code, eff. 1/1/2026") ON A BARE DCA LANDING PAGE, WITH A NULL effective_date AND NO verified_at. SOURCE AND DATE FIXED AND verified_at NOW SET ON A FIRST-HAND READ OF THE ADOPTING AGENCY'S PACKET. * NOT ESTABLISHED: the Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. rule number for the gas code. The sibling DCA codes sit at 110-11-1-.24 (IBC), -.25 (IRC), -.26 (IPC), -.27 (IMC), -.31 (NEC), -.34 (IECC); the gas code's number is NOT among the rules I could read and is NOT quoted here rather than guessed. · source ↗
IMC — International Mechanical Code	2024 IMC	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 110-11-1-.27 (International Mechanical Code (IMC), 2024 Edition with 2026 Georgia State Amendments), adopted by the Board of Community Affairs / Department of Community Affairs under O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-20 et seq. as one of the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes. Operative words from the adopting agency's own instrument: "The INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL CODE, 2024 Edition, published by the International Code Council, when used in conjunction with these Georgia State Amendments, shall constitute the official Georgia State Minimum Standard Mechanical Code." Effective 2026-01-01. Supersedes the prior rule version titled "International Mechanical Code (IMC), 2018 Edition with 2020 and 2024 Georgia State Amendments". *** EFFECTIVE DATE CHALLENGED AND CONFIRMED CORRECT, 2026-09-30, RUN 1823. The previous run found a DCA web announcement stating its codes carry "an effective date of January 1, 2027" and flagged that if that were a correction rather than a second wave, SIX VERIFIED GEORGIA ROWS WOULD BE WRONG BY A YEAR. IT IS NEITHER. THE ROWS ARE RIGHT AND effective_date 2026-01-01 STANDS. EVIDENCE, FROM THE INSTRUMENT OF RECORD RATHER THAN FROM AN AGENCY WEB PAGE: the GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR DECEMBER 2025 carries the Department of Community Affairs filing amending Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 110-11-1-.24, -.25, -.26, -.27 and -.31 — SUBMITTED Dec. 18, 2025, EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2026. NO EFFECTIVE DATE OF JANUARY 1, 2027 APPEARS ANYWHERE IN THE FILING. CORROBORATED BY TWO FURTHER DCA DOCUMENTS READ THE SAME DAY: the DCA memorandum of December 1, 2025 from Ted Miltiades, Director, Office of Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings, which names this exact code set and states the effective date "January 1, 2026"; and DCA's live "Current State Minimum Codes for Construction" page and green sheet ("GEORGIA STATE MINIMUM STANDARD CODES January 1, 2026"), both of which list these 2024-edition codes as MANDATORY AND IN EFFECT NOW. THE ANOMALY, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT RE-INVESTIGATED FROM SCRATCH: dca.georgia.gov serves the SAME 2027 text at BOTH announcement slugs (/announcement/2025-12-09/new-codes-jan-2026 AND /new-codes-jan-2027) — the 2026 slug appears to have been overwritten or redirected. That is a DCA WEBSITE ARTEFACT. A rule's effective date is fixed by its filing with the Secretary of State, not by an agency announcement page, and the filing says 2026-01-01. This is the same register-beats-agency rule that settled Texas on run 1820, applied a second time and holding a second time. · source ↗
IPC — International Plumbing Code	2024 IPC	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 110-11-1-.26 (International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2024 Edition with 2026 Georgia State Amendments), adopted under O.C.G.A. § 8-2-20 et seq. *** EFFECTIVE DATE CHALLENGED AND CONFIRMED CORRECT, 2026-09-30, RUN 1823. The previous run found a DCA web announcement stating its codes carry "an effective date of January 1, 2027" and flagged that if that were a correction rather than a second wave, SIX VERIFIED GEORGIA ROWS WOULD BE WRONG BY A YEAR. IT IS NEITHER. THE ROWS ARE RIGHT AND effective_date 2026-01-01 STANDS. EVIDENCE, FROM THE INSTRUMENT OF RECORD RATHER THAN FROM AN AGENCY WEB PAGE: the GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR DECEMBER 2025 carries the Department of Community Affairs filing amending Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 110-11-1-.24, -.25, -.26, -.27 and -.31 — SUBMITTED Dec. 18, 2025, EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2026. NO EFFECTIVE DATE OF JANUARY 1, 2027 APPEARS ANYWHERE IN THE FILING. CORROBORATED BY TWO FURTHER DCA DOCUMENTS READ THE SAME DAY: the DCA memorandum of December 1, 2025 from Ted Miltiades, Director, Office of Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings, which names this exact code set and states the effective date "January 1, 2026"; and DCA's live "Current State Minimum Codes for Construction" page and green sheet ("GEORGIA STATE MINIMUM STANDARD CODES January 1, 2026"), both of which list these 2024-edition codes as MANDATORY AND IN EFFECT NOW. THE ANOMALY, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT RE-INVESTIGATED FROM SCRATCH: dca.georgia.gov serves the SAME 2027 text at BOTH announcement slugs (/announcement/2025-12-09/new-codes-jan-2026 AND /new-codes-jan-2027) — the 2026 slug appears to have been overwritten or redirected. That is a DCA WEBSITE ARTEFACT. A rule's effective date is fixed by its filing with the Secretary of State, not by an agency announcement page, and the filing says 2026-01-01. This is the same register-beats-agency rule that settled Texas on run 1820, applied a second time and holding a second time. · source ↗
IRC — International Residential Code	2024 IRC with 2026 Georgia State Amendments	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 110-11-1-.25, "International Residential Code (IRC), 2024 Edition with 2026 Georgia State Amendments", adopted by the Board / Department of Community Affairs as one of the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes under O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-20 et seq. OPERATIVE WORDS, READ FIRST-HAND 2026-09-20 IN THE ADOPTING AGENCY'S OWN AMENDMENT PACKET ("Georgia State Amendments to the International Residential Code (2024 Edition)", Georgia Department of Community Affairs, "Revised January 1, 2026"): "The INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE FOR ONE- AND TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGS, 2024 Edition, published by the International Code Council, when used in conjunction with these and any other Georgia State Amendments to the INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE FOR ONE- AND TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGS, 2024 Edition, shall constitute the official Georgia State Minimum Standard One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code." STATUTE CITED INSIDE THE PACKET ITSELF: O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-4, quoted by the packet in connection with fire sprinkler requirements in single-family dwellings. * SOURCE CORRECTED THIS RUN: previously a bare DCA landing page with no adopting text. effective_date WAS NULL, now 2026-01-01 from the packet's own "Revised January 1, 2026". * NOT VERIFIED THIS RUN: the codified rule text and History line (rules.sos.ga.gov renders rule bodies via JavaScript). *** EFFECTIVE DATE CHALLENGED AND CONFIRMED CORRECT, 2026-09-30, RUN 1823. The previous run found a DCA web announcement stating its codes carry "an effective date of January 1, 2027" and flagged that if that were a correction rather than a second wave, SIX VERIFIED GEORGIA ROWS WOULD BE WRONG BY A YEAR. IT IS NEITHER. THE ROWS ARE RIGHT AND effective_date 2026-01-01 STANDS. EVIDENCE, FROM THE INSTRUMENT OF RECORD RATHER THAN FROM AN AGENCY WEB PAGE: the GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR DECEMBER 2025 carries the Department of Community Affairs filing amending Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 110-11-1-.24, -.25, -.26, -.27 and -.31 — SUBMITTED Dec. 18, 2025, EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2026. NO EFFECTIVE DATE OF JANUARY 1, 2027 APPEARS ANYWHERE IN THE FILING. CORROBORATED BY TWO FURTHER DCA DOCUMENTS READ THE SAME DAY: the DCA memorandum of December 1, 2025 from Ted Miltiades, Director, Office of Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings, which names this exact code set and states the effective date "January 1, 2026"; and DCA's live "Current State Minimum Codes for Construction" page and green sheet ("GEORGIA STATE MINIMUM STANDARD CODES January 1, 2026"), both of which list these 2024-edition codes as MANDATORY AND IN EFFECT NOW. THE ANOMALY, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT RE-INVESTIGATED FROM SCRATCH: dca.georgia.gov serves the SAME 2027 text at BOTH announcement slugs (/announcement/2025-12-09/new-codes-jan-2026 AND /new-codes-jan-2027) — the 2026 slug appears to have been overwritten or redirected. That is a DCA WEBSITE ARTEFACT. A rule's effective date is fixed by its filing with the Secretary of State, not by an agency announcement page, and the filing says 2026-01-01. This is the same register-beats-agency rule that settled Texas on run 1820, applied a second time and holding a second time. · source ↗
NEC — National Electrical Code (NFPA 70)	2023 NEC (NFPA 70) with 2026 Georgia State Amendments	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 110-11-1-.31, "National Electrical Code (NEC), 2023 Edition with 2026 Georgia State Amendments", adopted by the Board / Department of Community Affairs as one of the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes under O.C.G.A. Sec. 8-2-20 et seq. OPERATIVE WORDS, READ FIRST-HAND 2026-09-20 IN THE ADOPTING AGENCY'S OWN AMENDMENT PACKET ("Georgia State Amendments to the National Electrical Code (2023 Edition)", Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Community Development Division, revision date January 1, 2026): "The NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 2023 Edition, published by the National Fire Protection Association, when used in conjunction with these and any other Georgia State Amendments to the NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 2023 Edition, shall constitute the official Georgia State Minimum Standard Electrical Code." * SOURCE CORRECTED THIS RUN: previously a bare DCA landing page with no adopting text. * effective_date WAS NULL AND IS SET TO 2026-01-01, WHICH IS THE DATE OF THE CURRENTLY OPERATIVE AMENDMENT LAYER READ FIRST-HAND. THE PRIOR ROW ALSO ASSERTED "2023 NEC eff. 1/1/2025" FOR THE EDITION ITSELF. I DID NOT RE-VERIFY THAT DATE THIS RUN AND IT IS NOT EVIDENCED BY ANYTHING I READ; IT IS RECORDED HERE AS AN INHERITED, UNVERIFIED CLAIM RATHER THAN CARRIED SILENTLY INTO THE COLUMN. * NOT VERIFIED THIS RUN: the codified rule text and History line (rules.sos.ga.gov renders rule bodies via JavaScript). * EFFECTIVE DATE CHALLENGED AND CONFIRMED CORRECT, 2026-09-30, RUN 1823. The previous run found a DCA web announcement stating its codes carry "an effective date of January 1, 2027" and flagged that if that were a correction rather than a second wave, SIX VERIFIED GEORGIA ROWS WOULD BE WRONG BY A YEAR. IT IS NEITHER. THE ROWS ARE RIGHT AND effective_date 2026-01-01 STANDS. EVIDENCE, FROM THE INSTRUMENT OF RECORD RATHER THAN FROM AN AGENCY WEB PAGE: the GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR DECEMBER 2025 carries the Department of Community Affairs filing amending Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 110-11-1-.24, -.25, -.26, -.27 and -.31 — SUBMITTED Dec. 18, 2025, EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2026. NO EFFECTIVE DATE OF JANUARY 1, 2027 APPEARS ANYWHERE IN THE FILING. CORROBORATED BY TWO FURTHER DCA DOCUMENTS READ THE SAME DAY: the DCA memorandum of December 1, 2025 from Ted Miltiades, Director, Office of Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings, which names this exact code set and states the effective date "January 1, 2026"; and DCA's live "Current State Minimum Codes for Construction" page and green sheet ("GEORGIA STATE MINIMUM STANDARD CODES January 1, 2026"), both of which list these 2024-edition codes as MANDATORY AND IN EFFECT NOW. THE ANOMALY, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT RE-INVESTIGATED FROM SCRATCH: dca.georgia.gov serves the SAME 2027 text at BOTH announcement slugs (/announcement/2025-12-09/new-codes-jan-2026 AND /new-codes-jan-2027) — the 2026 slug appears to have been overwritten or redirected. That is a DCA WEBSITE ARTEFACT. A rule's effective date is fixed by its filing with the Secretary of State, not by an agency announcement page, and the filing says 2026-01-01. This is the same register-beats-agency rule that settled Texas on run 1820, applied a second time and holding a second time. · source ↗

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