Boulder City, NV permit fees and requirements

Four things about this schedule are worth knowing before you read any figure from it.

The first is that it chains to the cent, and it is worth saying so because its neighbour does not. Every bracket of the Valuation Table is a fixed amount for a $1,000 range, and the two rows that continue above $50,000 start where the bracket below left off: $414.50 is exactly what the table produces at $50,000, and $639.50 at $100,000 is exactly what the $4.50 band produces there. Two valuation tables in one state, one that chains without a seam and one with a four-and-a-half-cent seam. A schedule is a document, not a convention, and each is modelled as printed.

The second is that the schedule tells you how to value the work. "Common Unit Costs Used to Calculate Valuation" sits on the same page as the fee table: $112.65 per square foot for a wood-framed dwelling with air conditioning, $119.73 for masonry, $65.00 for a room, $44.63 for a garage, $4.00 per foot for a wood or vinyl fence. That is unusual and it is useful — it means a reader who knows square footage but has no contract price can still arrive at the City's own figure rather than guessing, and the worked example on this site's building page follows that chain end to end.

The third is the issuance fee, and it is a reading rather than a certainty. The schedule opens "Unless indicated a $40 Issuance Fee will be applied to every permit", and each trade block on the same page indicates the opposite in print: "Price Includes Issuance Fee". The Valuation Table is not a trade block and does not indicate anything, so a building permit is modelled as the table's amount plus $40 and a trade permit as its flat amount. If the City means the table to include it, every building figure here is $40 high, and the building page says so in plain words.

The fourth is what is deliberately outside these figures. Plan review is published as a deposit — "Equal to full plan review fees for the project, based on project valuation. This can be calculated using the Valuation Table on page 2" — and a deposit equal to the review fee, computed from the same table as the permit, would double every published figure if added unconditionally. Privilege tax and transportation ($1.00 per square foot commercial, $1,000 per house residential, plus a separate $1,000 per house tax), meter installation and connection fees under Resolution 6570 (water $7,450 to $74,088, sewer $1,800 to $15,000, electric $2,500 to $7,500 by amperage, then $6.25 per amp above 1,200) and the event fees — re-inspection, same-day, after-hours, overtime, expedited review — are all real, all published, and all charged by nobody on this site. Each page names them.