diff --git a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonReadCommon.scala b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonReadCommon.scala
index 017d9722257..1e4f5579be5 100644
--- a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonReadCommon.scala
+++ b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonReadCommon.scala
@@ -193,18 +193,22 @@ object GpuJsonReadCommon {
     val allowUnquotedControlChars = options.buildJsonFactory()
       .isEnabled(JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_UNQUOTED_CONTROL_CHARS)
 
+    baseCudfJsonOptionsBuilder()
+      .withNormalizeSingleQuotes(options.allowSingleQuotes)
+      .withLeadingZeros(options.allowNumericLeadingZeros)
+      .withNonNumericNumbers(options.allowNonNumericNumbers)
+      .withUnquotedControlChars(allowUnquotedControlChars)
+      .build()
+  }
+
+  def baseCudfJsonOptionsBuilder(): ai.rapids.cudf.JSONOptions.Builder = {
     ai.rapids.cudf.JSONOptions.builder()
       .withRecoverWithNull(true)
       .withMixedTypesAsStrings(true)
       .withNormalizeWhitespace(true)
       .withKeepQuotes(true)
-      .withNormalizeSingleQuotes(options.allowSingleQuotes)
       .withStrictValidation(true)
-      .withLeadingZeros(options.allowNumericLeadingZeros)
-      .withNonNumericNumbers(options.allowNonNumericNumbers)
-      .withUnquotedControlChars(allowUnquotedControlChars)
       .withCudfPruneSchema(true)
       .withExperimental(true)
-      .build()
   }
 }
diff --git a/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/JsonScanRetrySuite.scala b/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/JsonScanRetrySuite.scala
index 47546f25513..1384a90f3cc 100644
--- a/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/JsonScanRetrySuite.scala
+++ b/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/JsonScanRetrySuite.scala
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
 
 package com.nvidia.spark.rapids
 
-import ai.rapids.cudf.JSONOptions
 import com.nvidia.spark.rapids.jni.RmmSpark
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.json.rapids.JsonPartitionReader
+import org.apache.spark.sql.rapids.GpuJsonReadCommon
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
 
 class JsonScanRetrySuite extends RmmSparkRetrySuiteBase {
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class JsonScanRetrySuite extends RmmSparkRetrySuiteBase {
 
     val cudfSchema = GpuColumnVector.from(StructType(Seq(StructField("a", IntegerType),
       StructField("b", IntegerType))))
-    val opts = JSONOptions.builder().withLines(true).build()
+    val opts = GpuJsonReadCommon.baseCudfJsonOptionsBuilder().withLines(true).build()
     RmmSpark.forceRetryOOM(RmmSpark.getCurrentThreadId, 1,
       RmmSpark.OomInjectionType.GPU.ordinal, 0)
     val table = JsonPartitionReader.readToTable(bufferer, cudfSchema, NoopMetric,