Los Angeles
Los Angeles Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau
In short
Los Angeles Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau issues 1 permit we publish for Los Angeles, last verified 2026-09-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Fire Permitonly if it applies to you | Los Angeles Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau | $573–$1,528 a year, by occupancy classification | annual | 2026-09-03 |
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
Annual Fire Permit
The Fire Department regulates but the Office of Finance bills, which is why the schedule lives on a tax website. A restaurant is charged as an A-2 food and drink assemblage: $764 at fifty to ninety-nine occupants, $1,146 at a hundred to four hundred and ninety-nine, $1,528 at five hundred or more. Note where that table starts — there is no A-2 row below fifty occupants, so a small restaurant appears not to need this permit at all, and the trigger is occupant load rather than seat count, which is a different measure from the County's seating bands. Childcare is charged by headcount instead: $573 for seven to fourteen children, $764 to a hundred, $1,146 above that — but the separate large family daycare row for nine to fourteen children carries no fee, so a home-based provider is not billed where a commercial centre is. A recreational assemblage under forty thousand square feet is $764. An auto shop storing flammable liquids can pick up a further $764 line. Sequence matters: get a business referral slip from the Office of Finance, take it to LADBS for zoning approval, then pay — zoning sign-off comes before the fire permit, not after.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Los Angeles
- Phone
- (213) 978-3583
- Website
- lafd.org
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.
- City of Los Angeles Office of Finance — fire permit feesCity of Los Angeles Office of Finance · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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