CODE ENFORCEMENT BUREAU

The Code Enforcement Bureau’s main goal is to provide fire safety inspections that will ultimately provide a fire safe environment for various facilities throughout the State of Ohio. The Bureau conducts fire safety inspections for buildings and structures and other places, the condition of which may be dangerous from a fire safety standpoint to life and property to those places or adjacent buildings or structures. The Code Enforcement Bureau conducts fire safety inspections of a variety of facilities, including, but not limited to:

The Code Enforcement Bureau also issues permits for the installation, removal, temporary out of service and abandonment of aboveground and underground flammable and combustible liquid storage tanks and piping if the permit is not issued by the local fire authority having jurisdiction. Underground storage tanks not regulated by the Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR) or the local fire authority having jurisdiction are handled by the Code Enforcement Bureau. The Code Enforcement Bureau features inspection districts strategically located throughout the State of Ohio. Office and Field personnel can be contacted by calling the Code Enforcement Bureau at 614-728-5460 or 888-276-0303.