Maryland
Annapolis, MD permit fees and requirements
Annapolis prices a building permit on the estimated value of the work in bands:
$25 up to $500 of value, $150 to $3,000, $175 to $5,000, $200 to $10,000, and $250 plus 0.8% of the value over $10,000 above that. A separate nonrefundable application fee runs $25 to $200 by value, and drawing submittal for plan review runs $100 to $350 plus 0.1% over $100,000. Electrical permits are $150 for a new dwelling with a 200-ampere service plus $8 per 100 amperes over, or $25-$75 by outlet band for alterations, and plumbing permits are the first fixture $60 plus $15 per additional fixture plus the gas pipe charge.
Permit costs we have worked out
Each page shows the fee components, the formula the jurisdiction uses, and a worked example you can follow by hand.
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| Permit | Category | Last reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| Annapolis building permit fees | structural | 2026-09-26 |
| Annapolis electrical permit fees | electrical | 2026-09-26 |
| Annapolis plumbing permit fees | plumbing | 2026-09-26 |
Local context
What is specific to Annapolis
Annapolis publishes its fees as one consolidated FY26 schedule whose every row cites its own section of City Code Title 17, Buildings & Construction. That makes the document unusually traceable — a fee can be checked against the section it cites — and unusually dense: Title 17 also prices grading, demolition, signs, rental licences, use-and-occupancy inspections and watershed restoration charges on the same pages.
The building side is a straight value ladder, unlike Baltimore's volumetric fee one exit up the road: a small job of $5,000 pays $175.00, a $10,000 job pays $200.00, and above $10,000 the fee grows linearly at 0.8% of the excess plus the $250 base. The application fee and the plan-review fee each have their own ladders on top, so a mid-size job carries three bands read from three tables.
The electrical section is where the schedule shows its age in a good way: the dwelling row is priced by service amperage, and the rough-wiring rows are priced by counting every switch, lighting outlet and receptacle as an 'outlet'. Annapolis apartment dwellings pay 80% of the dwelling-unit fees, which the schedule prints rather than derives. And the plumbing section reads as its own sentence: the permit is 'the sum of the fixture charges plus the amount of the applicable gas service pipe charges', which means a gas water heater, a range or a furnace line rides the same plumbing permit as the fixtures.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Estimated value of the work for the building permit and its application and plan-review fees — declared by the applicant and banded. Service amperage and outlet counts for electrical: $150 for a dwelling service of 200 amperes or less, $8 per 100 amperes or fraction over, and $25-$75 by outlet band for rough wiring on additions, alterations and repairs. Fixture counts and gas pipe diameter for plumbing: first fixture $60 residential, $15 per additional public-sewer fixture, and $50-$500 by pipe diameter. No fee here is derived from a per-square-foot rate.
Who to contact
The office that issues the permit, with the details we have verified. Confirm current hours before travelling.
What these fees do not include
The list is not a disclaimer: on a new house the fees left out can outweigh the permit fee several times over. Every entry here is stated on the permit page as well.
Not included in our estimates
These figures are Annapolis's building, electrical and plumbing permit fees and the application fee. They are not a total project cost, and they exclude:
- The plan-review drawing submittal fee ($100-$350 plus 0.1% over $100,000), which the model names in the requirements rather than charging, because the worked example prices a permit without drawings.
- Grading permits at $713 to $1,575 by sitework cost plus 5.4% of the excess over $200,000, with $300 milestone inspections.
- Moving or demolishing a building at a $100 residential and $150 commercial nonrefundable application fee.
- Mechanical permits at $125 to $10,000 of value and 2% of total cost above, and fire plan review at $50 per inspector hour.
- Use and occupancy inspection at $0.325 per square foot, residential unit $250.
- Utility connection charges — $9,400 for a city-installed 4-inch sewer connection and $8,400 for a 1-inch water connection with meter — which are DPW charges, not permit fees.
- Special fixture charges: grease traps and oil interceptors at $100 each, water conditioning units at $50, gas hot water heaters at $40.
- Licences: master and journeyman plumbers at $200 biennially, electrical contractors at $200 biennially, gas fitters at $50 a year, utility contractors at $100 a year.
- Watershed restoration quarterly charges based on impervious area, and tree fee-in-lieu at $1,250-$2,000 per tree.
- Anything charged by Anne Arundel County or the State of Maryland.
Official sources for this jurisdiction
The documents these figures are transcribed from. Where a source contradicts itself we keep both readings and say so on the permit page.
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
Read 2026-09-26 as the City's 27-page official FY26 schedule. The PDF the City served from annapolis.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3809 no longer resolves (404), so this source now carries the City's own “Fee Schedule FY2026” link — annapolis.gov resolves it to the Municode codification, HTTP 200. The building page transcribes the permit-fee value bands ($25/$150/$175/$200 and $250 + 0.8% over $10,000), the nonrefundable application-fee bands and the drawing-submittal plan-review bands, each with its printed code section (§17.05.130, §17.08.080, §17.09.070). The electrical page transcribes §17.16's dwelling-unit and rough-wiring rows. The plumbing page transcribes §17.28's installation charges, fixture charges and gas service pipe charges. The schedule prints code citations alongside every row, which is what allows the two-column extraction problem to be resolved line by line.