Houston County
Houston County Board of Health / Houston County Health Department, Environmental Health Division
In short
Houston County Board of Health / Houston County Health Department, Environmental Health Division issues 1 permit we publish for Houston County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Service Establishment Health Permit | Houston County Board of Health / Houston County Health Department, Environmental Health Division | Ala. Code §45-35-170 (Act 88-286) authorizes the Houston County Board of Health to designate which health-department services carry a fee and to set the dollar amount of each one, following a public hearing; no person may be denied a service for inability to pay, and a sliding fee scale based on ability to pay is expressly authorized. The Board's own published Environmental Health and food-service-sanitation materials describe the 100-point inspection scoring system and the categories of establishment covered — restaurants, mobile food units, bakeries, bars and daycare kitchens — but do not print the resulting dollar fee for a food-service establishment permit. | annual, consistent with the Environmental Health Division's ongoing permitting and inspection program | 2026-09-28 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Food Service Establishment Health Permit
A restaurant, coffee shop, food truck or daycare kitchen that prepares or serves food in Houston County needs this permit from the Houston County Health Department's Environmental Health Division, 1781 E. Cottonwood Rd., Dothan. Unlike a plain Alabama Department of Public Health field office, the Houston County Board of Health holds genuine local fee-setting authority under Ala. Code §45-35-170 — the same category of local act found in Baldwin, Jefferson, Limestone, Mobile, Montgomery and Morgan counties — subject to a public hearing before any fee is set, with no one denied service for inability to pay and a sliding fee scale expressly authorized. The Division permits and inspects more than 700 establishments on a 100-point scale, reinspecting monthly any establishment scoring below 85, and requires plan review before construction or remodeling of a food establishment. Call the Health Department, 334-678-2815, to confirm the current dollar fee before budgeting, since none is printed on the Department's own published pages.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Houston County
- Phone
- 334-678-2815
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- ADPH Houston County, Food Service Sanitation program — 100-point inspection scale, monthly reinspection below 85, plan review requirementAlabama Department of Public Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Code of Alabama §45-35-170, Fees for services (Houston County Board of Health, Act 88-286) — full text: fee-setting authority, public hearing requirement, no denial for inability to pay, sliding fee scalelaw.justia.com (Code of Alabama mirror) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
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