Your title block is citing sections that moved

Most errata are typo fixes you can ignore. This one isn't — at least not if you build plan sets for a living.

The January 2026 Title 24 errata, announced in BSC Information Bulletin 26-01, did more than clean up commas. It renumbered and re-pointed code sections that live in plan-set boilerplate — the general notes, structural callouts, and assembly notes you copy forward from job to job. The errata are effective and enforceable January 1, 2026. So a sheet that was correct when you stamped it in December can earn a correction letter when it hits a counter in spring.

Here's the thing: the code text didn't necessarily change. The address did. And stale addresses are exactly the kind of thing a plan checker circles.

The PV live-load section renumbered

If you do solar, this one's for you. In the California Building Code (Part 2, Volume 2), the photovoltaic panel systems live-load provisions moved from Section 1607.14.3 to Section 1607.22 — and the structural-design (A) track from 1607A.14.3 to 1607A.22. The errata made the change for consistency with the 2024 IBC errata.

A companion section moved too: uncovered open-frame roof structures went from 1607A.14.4 to 1607A.23.

Verified against the 2025 CBC Part 2 Vol 2 errata and BSC Information Bulletin 26-01: "Photovoltaic panel systems and subsections renumbered to 1607.22 / 1607A.22 (consistent with 2024 IBC errata)."

If your PV structural notes or your standard rooftop-array detail cite 1607.14.3, they now point at the wrong text. Same for any A-section callout on a hospital or essential-services job.

"Chapter 7A" left the building

The bigger story is wildland-urban interface. Chapter 7A was removed from the CBC this cycle — its WUI provisions now live in their own book, the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code. Anything that still cites the old CBC location is pointing into a hole.

The errata chased those references down across multiple parts:

• CBC Section 1505.1.1 (roofing in fire-hazard severity zones) had its pointer corrected from CBC "Section 705A" to "Chapter 5 of the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code."
• California Fire Code Section 202 — the Wildland-Urban Interface Area definition — had its reference to CBC Chapter 7A / Section 702A.2 corrected to the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code.
• CALGreen Chapter A5 had its references to CBC Chapter 7A provisions corrected to the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code.

If your WUI compliance notes, your Class-A roof-assembly callouts, or your ignition-resistant-construction schedule cite 705A, 702A.2, or Chapter 7A, they're citing a chapter that no longer exists in that book.

A pool-code pointer flipped

One more for anyone working near barriers and gates. California Fire Code Section 1010.2.3 had a reference to the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code corrected to point to the California Building Code instead. If your egress-hardware or gate notes around pool enclosures inherited the old pointer, fix it.

Where these hide in a plan set

None of these changes alter what you have to build. They change what you have to cite. And citations cluster in predictable places:

• PV structural notes / rooftop-array details — the old 1607.14.3 / 1607A.14.3 live-load callouts.
• Roof assembly and reroof notes — Class-A and WUI roofing language pointing at 705A or Chapter 7A.
• WUI / ignition-resistant construction notes — anything citing Chapter 7A or 702A.2 by number.
• Gate, barrier, and egress-hardware notes — the pool-code pointer in 1010.2.3.

These notes are notorious for outliving the code they reference. The detail that's ridden along on your title block for three cycles is the one most likely to be stale.

The 10-minute fix

This is a find-and-replace problem, not a redesign. Open your template library — your standard general-notes sheet, your detail blocks, your office master — and search the literal strings:

1607.14.3, 1607A.14.3, 1607A.14.4, 705A, 702A.2, Chapter 7A, and any International Swimming Pool and Spa Code reference in fire/egress notes.

Update the hits to the corrected pointers above, then fix the master so you're not re-stamping the old numbers next month. As always, confirm against the adopted code text and verify with your local jurisdiction — some cities amend on top of the state code, and your AHJ has the last word on which edition and which corrections they're enforcing.

What CrossBeam does with it

CrossBeam reviews plan sets against the code as corrected, so a note that still cites a moved or deleted section gets flagged before the city sees it. Stale boilerplate is one of the quietest ways to draw a correction letter — and one of the easiest to catch early.