Bellevue
City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Permits & Inspections (Building Department)
In short
City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Permits & Inspections (Building Department) issues 2 permits we publish for Bellevue, last verified 2026-09-11. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor & Trade Licensing (Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Sewer) | City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Permits & Inspections (Building Department) | Contractor license, annual: Class A General Contractor Unlimited $250.00; Class B General Contractor Limited $200.00; Class C Residential Contractor Unlimited $100.00; Class D Residential Contractor Limited $75.00; Class E Roofing Contractor Unlimited $50.00 (each issued through an ICC competency exam). A one-job 'Special Contractor License' costs $1,000.00 (Class A/B), $500.00 (Class C), $200.00 (Class D) or $100.00 (Class E). Plumbing/Mechanical/Sewer Layer, annual: Master $75.00 initial/$75.00 renewal; Journeyman Plumber/Mechanical Journeyman/Sheet Metal Journeyman/Mechanical Apprentice $25.00 initial/$25.00 renewal; Lawn Sprinkler Contractor/Installer $25.00 initial/$25.00 renewal; Apprentice Plumber $25.00 initial/$25.00 renewal; a one-job Special Master Mechanical/Plumber permit is $150.00. Late renewal after expiration is $20.00-$100.00 per month (up to 3 months) depending on license type, and reinstatement is the yearly fee plus late fees doubled. | annual, per license class or trade | 2026-09-11 |
| Commercial Building Permit & Certificate of Occupancy | City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Permits & Inspections (Building Department) | Table 3-A of the 1997 Uniform Administrative Code (as amended, per the Master Fee Schedule), banded by project valuation: $1-$500 = $23.50 flat; $501-$2,000 = $23.50 plus $3.05 per $100 (or fraction) over $500; $2,001-$25,000 = $69.25 plus $14.00 per $1,000 (or fraction) over $2,000; $25,001-$50,000 = $391.75 plus $10.10 per $1,000 over $25,000; $50,001-$100,000 = $643.75 plus $7.00 per $1,000 over $50,000; $100,001-$500,000 = $993.75 plus $5.60 per $1,000 over $100,000; $500,001-$1,000,000 = $3,233.75 plus $4.75 per $1,000 over $500,000; over $1,000,000 = $5,608.75 plus $3.65 per $1,000 over $1,000,000. A commercial plan-review fee of 25% of the building permit fee applies on top of this for new construction. New commercial/civic/office construction separately triggers a $5,000.00-per-development-acre Arterial Street Improvement Program (ASIP) fee, and — only within the Papio Creek and South Sarpy Watershed boundaries — a $5,642.00-per-acre Papio Creek/South Sarpy Watershed Partnership fee (FY2024-2026 rate). | one-time, per project — not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-09-11 |
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
Contractor & Trade Licensing (Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Sewer)
A genuine local contractor and trade-licensing system, confirmed in full from the City's own Master Fee Schedule and its own Building Department 'Application for Competency' forms. One honest gap: the Building Department separately publishes a 'License Application (Electrical)' form requiring the applicant's Nebraska State Electrical Division license number — proving Bellevue does register electrical contractors locally, layered on the state credential, the same pattern Lincoln and Omaha both follow — but no electrical-specific dollar figure appears anywhere in the Master Fee Schedule's own City License section, which prices only Contractor, Plumbing, Mechanical and Sewer Layer categories. That gap is recorded honestly here rather than assumed to match Lincoln's ($125-$250/year) or Omaha's ($85/year) own electrical registration fees. Plumbing and mechanical/HVAC trades have no Nebraska state equivalent at all, exactly the pattern the state layer already flags ('licensed by the city or village nearest the job').
Commercial Building Permit & Certificate of Occupancy
The valuation-based fee table is published in the City's own separately hosted 'Building Permit Fees' PDF; the Master Fee Schedule references the table by name ('1997 Uniform Administrative Code fees as amended') without reprinting it. No standalone certificate-of-occupancy fee is published in the Master Fee Schedule, so no separate certificate-of-occupancy charge is listed here; the certificate of occupancy is issued through the building-permit process under the locally adopted 2021 International Building Code. A business owner planning new construction (not a remodel) should budget for the ASIP and, if applicable, watershed-partnership fees on top of the base Table 3-A permit fee — both are real, confirmed, per-acre charges tied to the building-permit process rather than the permit fee itself.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Bellevue
- Phone
- (402) 293-3014
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.
- Bellevue Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8 (Buildings) table of contents — Article I (In General), II (Building Code), III (Unsafe Buildings), IV (Demolition Contractors), V (Regulations for Moving of Buildings), VI (Alarm Systems), VII (Licenses)City of Bellevue, Nebraska (Code of Ordinances, via American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
- Building Permit Fees — the City's own hosted copy of Table 3-A (Building Permit Fees) and Table 3-B (Electrical Permit Fees) of the 1997 Uniform Administrative Code, the valuation-based schedule referenced but not reprinted in the Master Fee ScheduleCity of Bellevue, Nebraska, Permits & Inspections · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- City of Bellevue Building Department Application for Competency (Contractor) — the Class A/B/C/D/E contractor license application, issued through an ICC examinationCity of Bellevue, Nebraska, Building Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- City of Bellevue Building Department Application for Competency (Electrical Contractor) — requires the applicant's Nebraska State Electrical Division license number, confirming a local registration layered on the state credential, with no fee stated on the form itselfCity of Bellevue, Nebraska, Building Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- City of Bellevue Master Fee Schedule, Resolution No. 2025-01 (effective February 18, 2025) — the complete fee schedule covering building, fire, zoning, sign, contractor/trade licensing, occupation tax and peddler/mobile vendor feesCity of Bellevue, Nebraska · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
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