Attention! New Permit Fees as of October 1, 2018

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has increased its permit fees effective October 1, 2018. Please click on the “Permit Fees” button to the left for the new fee schedule.

The Code Enforcement Unit is primarily responsible for the inspection of existing occupancies for compliance with the California Fire Code (CFC), Title 19-California Code of Regulations, the California Health and Safety Code, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (CCCFPD) Ordinance, applicable National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards and other approved national standards. There are approximately 8,000 occupancies assigned to the Code Enforcement Division for inspections to ensure compliance with the fire code operational permit requirements or other statutory requirements for annual fire and life safety inspections within certain occupancies.

A substantial part of our workload is the inspection of multi-family residential occupancies (apartments), public and private schools, residential care facilities for the elderly, nursing homes, child and adult day care facilities as required by state statute. Hospitals, jails and other detention facilities are inspected at the frequency required by state law. Additional occupancies where inspections are conducted pursuant to fire code operational permits include places of assembly (churches, restaurants, theaters, and concert venues), gas stations, repair garages, covered and open shopping malls, dry cleaners, aviation facilities, and lumber yards and woodworking plants.

Hazardous occupancies where storage of, or processes involving, hazardous materials exist, such as, industrial fabrication facilities, power generation plants, high piled storage and high rack storage facilities, are also inspected for compliance with fire code operational permit requirements. Fairs, festivals, temporary tent structures, haunted houses, Grad Night events and pyrotechnic events all require operational permits and add a seasonal workload to the fire prevention bureau during the spring, summer and autumn months.

Code Enforcement inspectors are currently assigned to a geographical area based on the total number of occupancies assigned to a set of given fire stations. The range of occupancies assigned to each Code Enforcement inspector varies from 1200 to 1500.

The following operational permits are required within the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District: