Shelby County
Shelby County Commission, Department of Planning and Development
In short
Shelby County Commission, Department of Planning and Development issues 2 permits we publish for Shelby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junkyard / Scrap Metal / Salvage Yard Licenseonly if it applies to you | Shelby County Commission, Department of Planning and Development | $100 initial license fee, $100 per year renewal (due October 1 annually), plus a $25 late fee if renewal is more than 30 days after the renewal date | annual, renewed each October 1 | 2026-09-28 |
| Alcoholic Beverage License (state ABC Board; Shelby County is Wet Countywide)only if it applies to you | Shelby County Commission, Department of Planning and Development | No fee | not applicable at the county level | 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
Junkyard / Scrap Metal / Salvage Yard License
An auto-repair, salvage or scrap-metal operation that buys, sells, dismantles or stores junk vehicles or salvage in unincorporated Shelby County needs this license from the Shelby County Commission, through the Department of Planning and Development, in addition to the auto-garage general privilege license recorded above. The fee is $100 for the initial license, $100 a year to renew (due October 1 annually), plus a $25 late fee if renewed more than 30 days after the renewal date. This fee was originally set by 2001 Resolution 01-02-12-10 and was independently reconfirmed via the county's own live Sanitation page as still the fee and renewal cycle in effect. The license applies only in unincorporated Shelby County; a business inside an incorporated city is not covered by this specific county license. This is the entire scope of the local act (Act No. 99-417) that a prior list of '~7 counties with local health rules' was likely referring to for Shelby — it is sanitation/nuisance-abatement authority over junkyards, not a food-service health board, and has no relationship to the food-service permit recorded above.
Alcoholic Beverage License (state ABC Board; Shelby County is Wet Countywide)
Shelby County itself charges no fee for alcohol sales and imposes no county-level wet/dry restriction of its own on a business: the license to sell or serve alcohol comes entirely from the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, recorded at the state layer, not from Shelby County. Shelby County is classified Wet countywide on the ABC Board's own current wet/dry list, per the Board's own published PDF table; under that list no part of Shelby County is dry, and a business does not need to check a city-by-city wet/dry status before applying for a state ABC license anywhere in the county. A restaurant, coffee shop or retail store selling alcohol also still owes every other county and, if inside city limits, municipal requirement recorded separately for Shelby County.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Shelby County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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.
- Resolution 01-02-12-10, Sanitation Regulations of Shelby County (implementing Act No. 99-417)Shelby County Commission · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Sanitation — Shelby County's own live page describing the junkyard/salvage-yard license, still showing the $100 fee and October 1 annual renewalShelby County, Alabama · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Wet/Dry county list ('Wet Cities Nov 25') — Baldwin County listed as WetAlabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
Other offices serving Shelby County
- Shelby County Business Revenue Department / License Offices
- Shelby County Department of Development Services (Planning Services + Building/Fire Safety)
- Shelby County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Alabama Department of Public Health, Northeastern District field office)
- Shelby County Probate Court
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