What a Building-Code Violation Means
Georgia's legal system has no separate "building code" as such — liability for construction-related violations is established by the Code of Administrative Offences and by breaches of permit conditions. This page covers the two principal directions: arbitrary construction and the violation or non-fulfilment of requirements established in the sphere of civil safety. In both cases what lies at stake is a fine whose amount the law names directly — which is precisely why the correct classification of the violation and a properly built defence are decisive.
Administrative Liability for Arbitrary Construction
A citizen's construction of summer garden houses without a duly agreed project, or with deviation from the norms provided by the legislation of Georgia in force at the start of the construction, entails a fine of up to half the minimum amount of labour remuneration. This norm squarely covers situations where the construction exists on paper only partially, or actually proceeds differently than the project envisaged. If you are building such a structure, the question of agreeing the project must be resolved before construction begins — walking it back afterwards already happens within an administrative case.
Liability of Officials
The law separately regulates the conduct of officials: violations by them of the rules of construction of summer garden houses and of the organization and maintenance of collective gardening entail a stricter liability — a fine of up to one minimum amount of labour remuneration. Among these violations the law lists breach of the rules of admission to a gardening association; appropriation of the plot allocated for a collective garden without a development project or in breach of it; granting permission for the construction of summer garden houses without a duly agreed project or with deviation from the norms, and accepting such houses for operation; construction of common-use buildings and structures without an agreed project or in deviation from it; unlawful issuance of building materials, use of vehicles, mechanisms and labour, and the involvement of non-specialized construction organizations in building the association's objects.