Portland
Portland Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division
In short
Portland Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division issues 1 permit we publish for Portland, last verified 2026-09-12. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master Box Fire Alarm System Connectiononly if it applies to you | Portland Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division | $625.00 new connection fee; $350.00 annual maintenance fee thereafter (due every July 1), reduced to $100.00 for each additional alarm system at the same location; $275.00 to convert an existing mechanical Master Box Alarm System to a wireless one; a $100.00 reconnection fee applies after a voluntary disconnection. | annual maintenance fee, due July 1; connection fee one-time | 2026-09-12 |
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
Master Box Fire Alarm System Connection
Only reaches a building that (a) is otherwise required elsewhere in code to carry a fire alarm system, and (b) falls into one of the occupancy classes § 10-101 names — Assembly, Educational, 'Day-care facilities, excluding day-care homes,' Health care, Mercantile, Industrial, Hotels/motels, and High-rise buildings among them. Day-care facilities are named explicitly and without a size threshold; a restaurant, coffee shop, retail store, or fitness studio is reached only where its own occupant load or classification independently triggers a fire-alarm-system requirement in the first place — this is a real, conditional fee tied to occupancy classification, not a flat charge every small business pays automatically. Revised June 1, 2026, the most recent amendment date among the code chapters cited for Portland.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Portland
- Phone
- (207) 874-8400
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 Portland Code of Ordinances, Chapter 10 (Fire Prevention and Protection) — § 10-101 (Certain master box connections required, naming day-care facilities) and § 10-102 (Master box connection fees, rev. 6-1-2026)City of Portland, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
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