Fees

Amendments to Building, Electrical and Plumbing Fees Effective August 7, 2009

The Ordinaces listed below, amended the Building, Electrical and Plumbing Code to amend various sections and fee schedule tables to adjust fees or permits, inspections and other actions passed by the Board of Supervisors on June 23, 2009 and signed by Mayor Gavin Newsom on June 29, 2009. For more information, read the DBI Code & Fee Update Press Release.

DBI Fees Effective September 2, 2008

Per Ordinance 122-08 amending the Building Code to amend various sections and fee schedule tables to adjust fees or permits, inspections and other actions passed by the Board of Supervisors on July 16, 2008, and signed by Mayor Gavin Newsom on July 18, 2008, the following fees for the Department of Building Inspection was effective on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.

New State-Mandated Fee

On January 1, 2009, DBI began collecting a new State-mandated fee on every applicable permit. The new fee will be assessed at the rate of $4.00 per one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) project valuation – and requires a minimum fee of $1.00 from every applicable permit. Please see the Building Standards Commission bulletinState Bill No. 1473 Legislationfor more information. Please consider this additional fee when calculating your permit fee estimation.

Permit Fee Tables

The following list only contain fee tables that were amended per Ordinance 122-08. Please refer to the2007 San Francisco Building Codefor other fee tables.

All files are in PDF format.

New Code Enforcement Assessment Fees

Customers will see a new code enforcement assessment on one and two-family dwellings as part of their tax bill. These fees will help recover the costs of providing code enforcement services by the DBI. Code enforcement services include responding to public complaints, agency referrals alleging housing/building code violations, as well as help cover the costs of on-site inspections and reinspections to address and correct code violations. Passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, ordinance 105-09 became effective July 27, 2009 and provides the City with resources required to provide and preserve safe, functional and code-compliant structures.

For more information, please read the Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) regarding these fees.

Request Form For Record Correction, Exemption, and/or Refund  (PDF) (Special Assessment Codes 79, 92 or 93)

Related Links:

• DBI Fees : Frequently Asked Questions
  • Cost Analysis for Table 1A-L (Reproduction and Dissemination of Public Information)
  Note:  As one of the City's enterprise departments, which receives no General Fund tax dollars, DBI is required to set fees that enable it to recover the costs incurred to help balance its budget, as required by law. Per the Sunshine Ordinance Sec. 67.28 Fees for Duplication, a department "...may establish and charge a higher fee than the one cent presumptive fee in subdivision (b) and the 10 cent presumptive fee in subdivision (c) if it prepares and posts an itemized cost analysis establishing that its cost per page impression exceeds 10 cents or one cent, as the case may be...." The itemized cost analysis below show why DBI charges the fees established, and posted, that apply to hard copy prints, as well as to Records Retention.
• Fee Ordinance 122-08 July 2008
• State-Mandated Fees January 2009
• DBI's BPR Implementation Plan
• Report on the Cost of Servicesby Matrix Consulting Group
• Staff Report on Fee Study