Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office, License & Permit Division

Fire Prevention Ordinance Permits (fire alarm, tent, sprinkler ITM, mercantile compliance)

A commercial premises in Nassau County — any of the ten target industries with a physical location — falls under the Fire Prevention Ordinance's mercantile rules (for example, the ban on extension cords replacing permanent wiring and the requirement for annually witnessed emergency lighting tests) and needs specific permits when it installs a fire alarm system ($90 per 3-year term, the one figure independently corroborated on the Fire Marshal's own fee page), erects a commercial tent, has its sprinkler system serviced by a contractor holding a Type 1 or Type 2 Certificate of Fitness, or operates a food truck using LP gas for cooking (subject to a 200-pound aggregate cap and NFPA 58 compliance under the Fire Marshal's Food Truck Bulletin). Countywide enforcement of this ordinance is the default under NCFPO §1.4.1, but is not uniform in every municipality: any city or village may create its own 'bureau of fire prevention' and take over local enforcement, and Glen Cove has done so — its Municipal Code (Ch. 147) has the Mayor appoint a City Fire Inspector who enforces fire-prevention law there instead of the county Fire Marshal's Office. Long Beach runs its own Fire Department and Board of Fire Commissioners, though no separately created 'bureau of fire prevention' under §1.4.1 appears in its municipal code. The remaining 64 villages were not individually checked for the same carve-out; a business anywhere in the county should ask its own village clerk or fire department which office issues its fire-prevention permits before assuming the county Fire Marshal's Office is the enforcing authority at that address. Detached one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses of 3 stories or fewer are exempt, being regulated instead under the NYS Residential Code.