Albuquerque
Albuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office
In short
Albuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office issues 3 permits we publish for Albuquerque, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Code Operational Permit — Mobile Food Vending Unit | Albuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office | $50 operational permit fee | not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-09-11 |
| Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee (Business License) | Albuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office | $35–$400 annual, banded by the occupied square footage of the business premises — up to 1,500 sq ft $35; 1,501-6,000 sq ft $100; 6,001-12,000 sq ft $250; 12,001 sq ft or more $400 | annual, assessed alongside the Business License at initial application and each renewal | 2026-09-11 |
| Fire Inspection Fee — New Construction/Remodel | Albuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office | $10–$400 one-time, banded by occupied square footage under Table 8304.1 — $10 up to 500 sq ft, rising through seven further bands to $400 for 50,001 sq ft or more | one-time, per project | 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
Fire Code Operational Permit — Mobile Food Vending Unit
A genuine, confirmed, food-truck-specific line item in the Fire Marshal's own Specific Operational Permits table — distinct from, and additional to, the EHD's own Mobile Food Unit Permit recorded above. Chapter 83's table names no comparable auto-repair-, salon-, restaurant-, or childcare-specific operational permit (see the salon and auto-repair records below).
Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee (Business License)
This fee, and its four size bands, are stated identically in two independently published City documents — the Planning Department's own Business License FAQ page and Albuquerque Fire Rescue's own Chapter 83 fee schedule. It is separate from, and additional to, the Business License fee itself, and covers the Fire Marshal's initial and annual inspection of the business premises. Non-profit organizations are expressly subject to this fee as well (Chapter 83, §8302.2), and Chapter 83 — read here in full — contains no exemption of any kind for a state-licensed childcare facility. The Business License fee exemption for such a facility (recorded separately below) is textually scoped to 'the fee' meaning the license fee itself, in a sentence separate from the FAQ page's mention of this inspection fee, so a state-licensed childcare facility still owes this Fire & Life Safety Fee.
Fire Inspection Fee — New Construction/Remodel
This is a distinct, one-time fee for new buildings, tenant improvements and remodels — separate from the recurring Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee an existing business pays annually with its Business License, and separate from any fire-related plan-review component folded into the Commercial Building Permit. A re-inspection, required whenever a first re-inspection still finds incomplete work or uncorrected violations, is a flat $60 per Section 8305, charged for that and every further re-inspection needed.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Albuquerque
- Phone
- (505) 764-6300
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.
- Business License FAQs — states the $35 (rising to $36.75 as of July 1, 2026) annual fee, the banded Fire & Life Safety inspection fee table, the $10/calendar-day late fee, the state-licensed-daycare fee exemption, and renewal timingCity of Albuquerque, Planning Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- Chapter 83, Required Inspections, Fees and Rates — Table 8302.4-A (Fire & Life Safety Fee by square footage), Table 8302.5-A (Specific Operational Permits, including a $50 Mobile Food Vending Units fee), Table 8304.1 (New Construction Inspection Fees), and the $60 re-inspection feeAlbuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
Other offices serving Albuquerque
- City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department, Consumer Health Protection Division
- City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section
- City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Development Review Services / Code Enforcement
- City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Building Safety Division
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