Columbus
Columbus Consolidated Government, Inspections and Code Division
In short
Columbus Consolidated Government, Inspections and Code Division issues 3 permits we publish for Columbus, last verified 2026-09-04. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate of Occupancy | Columbus Consolidated Government, Inspections and Code Division | $60 flat | issued once per qualifying occupancy | 2026-09-04 |
| Commercial Building Permitonly if it applies to you | Columbus Consolidated Government, Inspections and Code Division | $100 for a renovation under $25,000, $150 from $25,000 to $50,000, $250 from $50,000 to $75,000. Above $75,000 and for all new construction, the fee runs per square foot by occupancy type — 50 cents for Business and Mercantile, 65 cents for Assembly and Educational. A separate plan review fee of one-quarter of the permit amount, minimum $75, applies on top and is never deducted from the permit fee itself. | one-time, per project | 2026-09-04 |
| Sign Permitonly if it applies to you | Columbus Consolidated Government, Inspections and Code Division | $20–$200 $150 for a ground or monument sign, $200 per face for a billboard, $75 for a temporary sign; a portable sign runs $75 to $20 per sign depending on how many are installed at once | per sign — a portable sign permit must be renewed every year | 2026-09-04 |
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
Certificate of Occupancy
Required before the occupation tax certificate itself will issue, and again any time a business changes or adds an activity, or changes its name or location.
Commercial Building Permit
Each trade permit needed alongside this one — gas, electrical, plumbing, mechanical — is priced separately at $75 per meter or unit.
Sign Permit
Portable signs are the one category here that genuinely recurs annually — every other sign type is a one-time permit.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Columbus
- Phone
- (706) 225-4126
- Website
- columbusga.gov/inscode
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.
- Columbus Consolidated Government — schedule of permit fees, effective July 1, 2024Columbus Consolidated Government, Inspections and Code Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
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