Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK permit fees and requirements
Oklahoma City prices construction out of one ordinance chapter read against one impact-fee page:
alterations pay $6.00 per $1,000 of valuation (floor $75), new construction pays a per-square-foot class rate ($0.19 warehouse, $0.28 commercial/office/industrial, $0.16 residential, $0.05 agricultural accessory) under the same floor, demolition is priced by stories, and every permit carries the state's $0.50 OUBCC line. Plan review is 50% of the permit fee — paid on submission, credited against the total, never added.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City building permit cost | structural | 2026-09-26 |
| Oklahoma City electrical permit cost | electrical | 2026-09-26 |
| Oklahoma City plumbing permit cost | plumbing | 2026-09-26 |
Local context
What is specific to Oklahoma City
Two documents price Oklahoma City. Chapter 60 of the Code of Ordinances is one ordinance-book chapter holding all four trades' schedules; every section's history ends with Ordinance 27978, adopted November 18, 2025, which printed each fee table in two columns — one for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 and one for July 1, 2026 and thereafter. The later column is in force now, and it is what these pages charge; the FY2025-26 figures ($164.90 residential electrical base, $78.40 residential alteration base, $74 first demolition story, $434 mobile home park, and the rest) are recorded in the research record and appear in no total. Sections that print a single amount carry the ordinance's own date.
The second document is the Development Impact Fees page — a separate instrument entirely. Streets fees are a six-by-four matrix: six land-use categories (Residential, Industrial, Office/Institutional/Lodging, and three Customer-Oriented bands) by four streets assessment areas (Rural, New Growth, Infill, Core), dollars per square foot of building excluding porches and garages. Parks fees are flat: 53 cents per square foot, residential development only. Both are collected when the building permit is issued, and the City dates them to January 2017 with an update every July 1 — whether the most recent update moved them is an open question, because no dated instrument checks it.
One reading decides how plan review appears on this site: § 60-12-6(b) says the 50% review fee "will be credited towards the total permit fee, the remainder of which is due upon issuance of the permit". A credit does not raise the total, so this site shows the payment schedule and never sums it — the same call Pittsburgh's 40% share required. The optional pre-application review and pre-construction meeting are named for the same reason: they are services you choose, not lines you owe.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Two bases, on two pages, and never both on one permit.
The alteration ladder reads valuation — $6.00 per $1,000 under § 60-12-7 — and the rate prints no "or fraction thereof", so the per-thousand amount prorates: $1,500 of valuation computes $9.00 before the $75 floor. New construction reads square footage at the class rate of § 60-12-9, where the floor is stated as a rule minimum. Demolition reads stories — a count of them, $78.00 for the first and $12.00 for each additional story. Electrical reads amperage and area: the add-on rows measure from the 200 amps the base covers and round the excess up to whole hundreds, while the commercial schedules switch at 4,000 square feet. Plumbing reads counts only — bathrooms, fixtures, water and sewer service connections — so a plumbing total never moves because the job got more expensive.
The impact fees read area a third time, from the square footage the applicant declares (porches, garages and patios excluded), multiplied by the land-use row and assessment area the reader supplies.
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 Oklahoma City's own permit, inspection and impact-fee amounts for building, electrical and plumbing work. They are not a project cost, and they exclude:
- Mechanical permits (Title 29). The forced-air tonnage bands ($31–$454), boiler bands, gasfitting rows and the gas service rows are read and recorded without a page in this pass.
- Plan review, as a charge. § 60-12-6(b)'s 50% is credited against the permit total — a payment schedule, not an addition — and the optional pre-application ($150) and pre-construction meeting ($500) services are named rather than charged.
- Event-driven fees. Reinspection/trip fee $50, address-change administration $43, temporary certificate of occupancy $250, after-hours inspection $175 and consultation $100 all attach to events this calculator does not model.
- The elevator and house-moving regimes. § 60-12-11 prices elevators by device and test type; § 60-12-12 prices house moving by area with an advance inspection. Both are full regimes with their own tables, recorded without rules.
- Water and wastewater impact fees. The page says the City charges them and publishes no table on the page read; streets and parks are the only two modelled.
- The parks credits and exemptions. The 38% local-park waiver and the private-park exemption (Ord. 25374) each carry their own application process.
- The 2.7% card fee and contractor registration. The card surcharge belongs to the payment channel; registration ($100/year) is licensing.
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.
- City websiteCityPrimary source
City of Oklahoma City — Development Impact Fees (streets and parks rate tables)
Read 2026-09-26. The streets fee table is a six-by-four matrix — land use (Residential, Industrial, Office/Institutional/Lodging, Customer-Oriented Low/Moderate/High) by streets assessment area (Rural, New Growth, Infill, Core) — dollars per square foot of development excluding porches and garages, collected when a building permit is issued with deferral available until the certificate of occupancy. Parks: 53 cents per square foot, residential development only, excluding porches, garages and patios. The page dates both to January 2017 with annual July 1 updates; whether the 2026-07-01 update moved the amounts is an open question — no dated instrument checks it. The 38% local-park waiver and the private-park exemption (Ord. 25374) are credits with their own application process, named rather than modelled.
- City websiteCity
City of Oklahoma City — Permit Fees (department hub page)
Read 2026-09-26. The City's own index of the four trade schedules (links into Municode), the July 2025 fee-changes PDF, and the impact-fee timing sentence: development impact fees for streets and parks "went into effect in January 2017 and will be updated July 1st of each subsequent year", and "In addition to the Building Permit Fees*, Development impact fees will be assessed based on new or additional square footage". The page also carries this jurisdiction's contact numbers and the 420 W. Main St. business center. It publishes no fee figures of its own — the code carries the operative numbers — which is why this source is not marked primary.
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
OKC Code of Ordinances, Chapter 60 — General Schedule of Fees, Title 12 (Building Code)
Read 2026-09-26 section by section through the codifier (an SPA that returns only its title to text extractors, and okc.gov 403s plain fetchers — every page of this jurisdiction was read through the browser session). The section histories all end with Ord. No. 27978, § …, 11-18-25, the ordinance that printed the two-column tables: a column for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 and a column for July 1, 2026 and thereafter. §§ 60-12-1, 60-12-6, 60-12-7, 60-12-8, 60-12-9 and the misc rows were read in full, along with the NOTE that electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits are separate schedules under their own titles.
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
OKC Code of Ordinances, Chapter 60 — General Schedule of Fees, Title 18 (Electrical Code)
Read 2026-09-26 through the codifier. Five regimes with their own scope words: § 60-18-14 residential new construction (2026 column base $175.00), § 60-18-16 residential add-on/remodel/service, §§ 60-18-20 and 60-18-22 commercial new construction split at 4,000 square feet, § 60-18-24 commercial add-on/service change, § 60-18-26 miscellaneous rows (all 2026 column), and § 60-18-12's standalone five-outlet permit. § 60-18-27 repeats the $0.50 OUBCC line.
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
OKC Code of Ordinances, Chapter 60 — General Schedule of Fees, Title 42 (Plumbing Code)
Read 2026-09-26 through the codifier. Three schedules split by scope: § 60-42-6 residential new construction for one- and two-family dwellings and condominiums (base $83 with the fixtures inside it), § 60-42-7 residential addition or replacement (2026 column base $84), § 60-42-9 for everything the first section excludes (2026 column base $120) — which is how multifamily prices — plus § 60-42-10's special fees and § 60-42-11's $0.50 OUBCC line.