Hennepin County
Hennepin County Public Works, Transportation Department (Permits Office)
In short
Hennepin County Public Works, Transportation Department (Permits Office) issues 1 permit we publish for Hennepin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Right-of-Way Use Permit (utility/obstruction permit)only if it applies to you | Hennepin County Public Works, Transportation Department (Permits Office) | Hennepin County's own road-permits page states that Ordinance 22 'provides for partial recovery of the county's costs associated with managing its rights-of-way' without publishing a dollar table; confirm the current fee with the Transportation Department Permits Office, 612-596-0336 or roadpermits@hennepin.us, before bidding a job. | per project; the permit must be obtained before utility construction, relocation or any obstruction begins in county right-of-way | 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
County Right-of-Way Use Permit (utility/obstruction permit)
A contractor whose work will disturb or obstruct a county state-aid highway or county road right-of-way — utility installation, excavation, traffic control, a project encroaching on the road shoulder — needs this permit before starting. Hennepin County is the road authority only for its own county state-aid highways and county roads, not for city streets, which remain that city's own right-of-way and permit process; a contractor working entirely on local city streets never touches this record. This is the one county-level permit named in Hennepin County's own 'Licenses, property, and roads' ordinance category that a contractor might actually need, and it is narrow and project-specific rather than any kind of general contractor license — Hennepin County issues no such general license (see the separate 'not required' record).
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Hennepin County
- Phone
- 612-596-0336
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.
- County Right-of-Way Use Ordinance (Ordinance 22)Hennepin County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- Licenses, property, and roads ordinances (category index)Hennepin County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- Road permits — utility/obstruction permits for county state-aid highways and county roads; fees recover the county's costs but no dollar table is publishedHennepin County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
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