General building work permit checklist — Clark County, Nevada
Assembled from Clark County’s own published permit rules. Every line below is quoted from a city document and linked to it. Nothing here is generated, estimated, or inferred from another jurisdiction.
Do you need a permit?
Clark County requires a permit for general building work.
Clark County enforces the 2018 Clark County Building Administrative Code (Clark County Code Title 22, Chapter 22.02, printed October 2022) layered on the adopted International Codes. Section 22.02.190 lists work exempt from a building permit, including one-story detached accessory buildings not exceeding 200 square feet with no mechanical or plumbing, platforms and decks not more than 30 inches above grade, water tanks up to 5,000 gallons, Type A fencing not over 6 feet high, Type B (masonry) fencing and retaining walls not over 24 inches high at any point, and roof-covering replacement where no more than 64 square feet of roof sheathing is replaced. Southern Nevada wrinkles worth flagging: the 24-inch masonry/retaining-wall trigger is far lower than the 4-foot threshold most states use; work near or across a wash triggers Regional Flood Control review; new development is subject to Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) desert-tortoise mitigation fees administered by Environment and Sustainability; and a State of Nevada Division of Water Resources water impact fee applies. Nevada has no statewide WUI overlay, but Clark County Fire Prevention review is folded into the same department.
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Sources
- building — permit rules ↗verified August 2026
Other permits Clark County publishes rules for
Listed because the city publishes a separate rule for each type — not because this project necessarily triggers one. Whether it does depends on your scope of work.
- Deck permit checklist
- Fence permit checklist
- Shed permit checklist
- Water heater permit checklist
- Re-roof permit checklist
- Retaining wall permit checklist
- Electrical work permit checklist
BuildSpec is a reference, not the authority having jurisdiction. Confirm requirements with Clark County before you build.