Point-of-sale rule changes in 2025 and 2026
Updated November 2026
New, repealed and changed point-of-sale requirements in 2025 and 2026, from the new Oro Loma sewer lateral rule to the Chester City repeal and New Jersey fee changes.
Municipal sale requirements change every year. These are the changes we found while compiling this directory. Each links to the city page with sources.
New or expanded requirements
- August 1, 2026: Oro Loma Sanitary District (San Lorenzo and parts of San Leandro, Castro Valley and Hayward) began requiring a sewer lateral compliance certificate for escrows opened on or after this date. Certificate fee: $450.
- April 6, 2026: Silver Lake, MN amended its point-of-sale sewer service ordinance. Unfinished corrections are escrowed at 1.5 times the estimate.
- February 2026: Arcata, CA reminded owners that its sewer lateral certification at sale, in place since 2015, is still enforced for buildings over 25 years old.
- 2026: Morgan Hill moved its rolling exemption, so homes built in 2011 or later are exempt from its lateral inspection.
- February 2025: East Goshen Township, PA reinstated its point-of-sale inspection.
- 2025: Maple Shade, NJ adopted a housing code that requires a certificate of occupancy for every sale.
- August 2025: Upper Chichester Township, PA added a stormwater authority certificate to its resale process.
- January 2026: Pennington Borough, NJ moved smoke and CO certificate enforcement in-house.
- July 2026: Delaware Township, NJ moved enforcement to Lambertville Fire District #1.
Repealed or reduced
- June 2025: Chester City, PA repealed its pre-sale inspection.
- 2025: New Jersey dropped the portable fire extinguisher from the resale smoke and CO certificate. Some town forms still list it. See the New Jersey guide.
- February 2024: Robbinsdale, MN ended its point-of-sale requirement.
Fee and process changes
- August 12, 2026: Brick Township, NJ noted a change to its resale detector certificate fee.
- February 2026: South San Francisco revised its 180-day extension form. The deposit remains $10,500.
- Early 2027: EBMUD plans to move its sewer lateral program to new software for scheduling, payments and certificates.
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