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Houston County Probate Office, License Department (Judge of Probate Patrick H. Davenport)

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Houston County Probate Office, License Department (Judge of Probate Patrick H. Davenport) issues 2 permits 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

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Veterinary License Filing with the Probate Judge's OfficeHouston County Probate Office, License Department (Judge of Probate Patrick H. Davenport)$1 one-time statutory fee, filed with the Houston County Probate Judge's officefiled with the Probate Judge's office when a veterinarian begins residing or practicing in the county; the statute sets no separate county renewal cycle2026-09-28
General County Business Privilege LicenseHouston County Probate Office, License Department (Judge of Probate Patrick H. Davenport)No distinct Houston County fee schedule or ordinance is published for this license. The county's own Business License Application asks for the same classification categories the statewide ALDOR Handbook of Privilege and Store Licenses (Title 40, Chapter 12, Code of Alabama) uses — contractor by gross receipts, gasoline dealer by pump count, vending machine operator by machine count, manufacturer by capital investment, and roughly 140 other classifications — so the applicable fee is set by whichever Title 40-12 classification fits the specific business, per the current ALDOR Handbook, rather than by a separate Houston County dollar schedule.annual; license year runs through September 30, renews each October, with penalties and interest applying after November 12026-09-28

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

Veterinary License Filing with the Probate Judge's Office

Every veterinarian licensed by the Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners must file that license with the probate office of each county where they reside or practice, for a statutory fee of $1.00, under Ala. Code §34-29-84 — a statewide requirement with no Houston County local act displacing it. The statute names 'the probate office of the county' directly as the filing point, which for Houston County is the same Probate Office, License Department that administers the general county business privilege license recorded above, at 462 N. Oates St., Dothan. This filing is separate from, and in addition to, that general county privilege license and any state veterinary-practice licensing requirements.

General County Business Privilege License

Every business, occupation or profession operating in Houston County needs this general county privilege license, required county-wide including inside every one of the county's nine municipalities. It is administered today through the Houston County Probate Office's own internal License Department division, at 462 N. Oates St., Dothan (checks payable to 'Patrick H Davenport, Judge of Probate'). Ala. Code §45-35-200 separately created an appointed 'License Commissioner' office for Houston County, staffed as a Commission-appointed exempt employee with license- and tag-enforcement duties, but that statute never names the Probate Judge at all, and no later act formally transferred the function. In current practice the office has no separate presence: the county's own departments listing shows only Probate, and the Probate Office's own page describes License as one of its five internal divisions alongside Tag, Recording, Court and Elections, with no separate License Commissioner named. No distinct Houston County dollar fee schedule is published; the application form's classification checkboxes track the structure of the statewide ALDOR Handbook, so the fee due depends on which Title 40-12 classification applies to the specific business.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Houston County
Phone
334-677-4722

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.

  1. Alabama Veterinary Practice Act and Administrative Code (full text) — §34-29-84 probate-office filing requirementAlabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  2. Code of Alabama §45-35-200, Office of License Commissioner (Houston County, Act 81-359)law.justia.com (Code of Alabama mirror) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  3. Houston County Business License Application — classification categories (contractor by gross receipts, gasoline by pump count, vending by machine count, manufacturer by capital investment) tracking the statewide ALDOR Title 40-12 Handbook structureHouston County Probate Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  4. Houston County Departments listing — confirms no separate License Commissioner department exists todayHouston County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  5. Houston County Probate Office — Business License pageHouston County Probate Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  6. Houston County Probate Office main page — internal division structure (License, Tag, Recording, Court, Elections)Houston County Probate Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28

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