Gwinnett County
Gwinnett County Fire Marshal's Office
In short
Gwinnett County Fire Marshal's Office issues 2 permits we publish for Gwinnett County, last verified 2026-10-02. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwinnett County Fire Certificate of Occupancy (Countywide) | Gwinnett County Fire Marshal's Office | $100 per Fire Certificate of Occupancy for a tenant building, per the Dept. of Planning & Development's Fee Schedule, Fire section | Per occupancy, required before a commercial business opens or changes tenancy. | 2026-10-02 |
| Fire / Life-Safety Permitsonly if it applies to you | Gwinnett County Fire Marshal's Office | Burn Permit $500.00; Site Plan Review $100.00; Commercial Kitchen Hood/Duct $100.00 per hood; Shell Fire Permit and Interior Finish Fire Permit scaled by square footage and sprinkler status — for example, a sprinklered Business/Mercantile/Day Care/Educational Occupancy up to 10,000 square feet costs $200.00. Other specialty fire permits on the same schedule range from $64.00 up to $1,280.00 for a high-rise building, all from the Dept. of Planning & Development's Fee Schedule, 'Fire Fees' section, effective July 1, 2024. | Per permit, tied to construction, remodeling, or a specific activity such as an open burn. | 2026-10-02 |
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
Gwinnett County Fire Certificate of Occupancy (Countywide)
Gwinnett County Fire Protection and Life Safety Ordinance §46-44b requires a Gwinnett County Fire Marshal Certificate of Occupancy for every commercial business in the county, including a business located inside the city limits of a Gwinnett County municipality, with one stated exception: the City of Loganville. The City of Norcross's own business-license checklist quotes the ordinance directly: 'All commercial businesses within Gwinnett County, including those within the city limits of Gwinnett County (with the exception of the City of Loganville), must have a Gwinnett County Fire Certificate of Occupancy (CO), per Gwinnett County Fire Protection and Life Safety Ordinance section 46-44b.' The fee for a Fire Certificate of Occupancy covering a tenant building is $100.00, per the Dept. of Planning & Development's Fee Schedule, Fire section, effective July 1, 2024 and reconfirmed live as current on October 2, 2026. This requirement applies in addition to whatever Certificate of Occupancy or business-license process the business's own city runs for a location inside its limits.
Fire / Life-Safety Permits
Beyond the Fire Certificate of Occupancy listed separately here, the Gwinnett County Fire Marshal's Office charges a range of other fire and life-safety fees under the Dept. of Planning & Development's Fee Schedule: a $500.00 Burn Permit, a $100.00 Site Plan Review, $100.00 per Commercial Kitchen Hood/Duct (relevant to any restaurant, coffee shop, or food-truck commissary with a cooking hood), and Shell and Interior Finish Fire Permits scaled by square footage and sprinkler status, with a sprinklered Business/Mercantile/Day Care/Educational Occupancy up to 10,000 square feet costing $200.00. The broader specialty-permit range on the same schedule runs from $64.00 up to $1,280.00 for a high-rise building. These fees apply to the Fire Marshal's construction-plan-review and specific-activity permitting function, separate from the countywide Fire Certificate of Occupancy requirement listed elsewhere here.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Gwinnett 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.
- City of Norcross — Checklist for Business Licenses (quotes Gwinnett County Fire Protection and Life Safety Ordinance §46-44b)City of Norcross, Georgia · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- Gwinnett County — Municipalities page (17 incorporated cities)Gwinnett County · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- Gwinnett County Dept. of Planning & Development, Fee Schedule (Revised 05/23/2024, effective July 1, 2024)Gwinnett County Dept. of Planning & Development · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
Other offices serving Gwinnett County
- Gwinnett County Dept. of Planning & Development, Building & Development Divisions
- Gwinnett County Health Department, Environmental Health Section (Gwinnett, Newton & Rockdale Public Health District)
- Gwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office, Dept. of Planning & Development
- Gwinnett County Police Department, Permits Unit
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