Swimming Pool permits across Tennessee
Where each city draws the line on swimming pool work. Sort any column — useful if you build across several towns and need to know where the rules change.
The statewide starting point is International Residential Code, принятый Теннесси, 2018. Cities that changed the rule are the interesting rows below.
| Where the line falls | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville | 704,963 | Depends | From 24 in deep | When a residential building permit is needed, the fee is $5… |
| Memphis | 610,919 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Knoxville | 198,722 | Depends | From 24 in deep | Building permit fees are set in the city Fee Schedule adopt… |
| Chattanooga | 191,496 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Clarksville | 185,690 | Depends | From 24 in deep | Electrical inspection for swimming pools and hot tubs: $32.… |
| Murfreesboro | 168,387 | Depends | From 24 in deep | Permit fees are set by the City Council; no amount is liste… |
| Franklin | 89,142 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Johnson City | 73,635 | Depends | From 24 in deep | The Board of Commissioners may set a permit fee schedule (S… |
| Jackson | 69,303 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Hendersonville | 63,947 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Smyrna | 60,302 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Kingsport | 57,109 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Gallatin | 52,489 | Depends | From 24 in deep | Current permit fee schedules are available in the Building … |
| Brentwood | 45,525 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Mount Juliet | 44,066 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| La Vergne | 41,430 | Depends | From 24 in deep | Set by the fee schedule adopted with the annual budget. |
| Germantown | 40,128 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Morristown | 32,994 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Bristol | 27,867 | Depends | From 24 in deep | Permit fees set by resolution of city council (§ 14-33(b));… |
| Farragut | 25,242 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Springfield | 19,842 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Goodlettsville | 17,433 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
| Nolensville | 15,809 | Depends | From 24 in deep | — |
“Unconfirmed” means the city's code doesn't state the rule plainly enough to publish. Those city pages link straight to the ordinance section instead.
Why neighboring cities disagree
Every city starts from a model code and then edits it. One town raises the shed cutoff, the next lowers the fence height, a third exempts the structure where its neighbor only exempts repairs to it. None of that is visible from a national article — you have to read each ordinance, which is what these pages do.