Allentown
City of Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and Safety
In short
City of Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and Safety issues 3 permits we publish for Allentown, last verified 2026-09-04. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrician Licenseonly if it applies to you | City of Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and Safety | $60–$90 $90 for a master electrician, $80 for a residential electrician, $60 for a journeyman; a special or appliance license is $50, plus a $10 printing fee | not stated in the source consulted | 2026-09-04 |
| Certificate of Occupancy | City of Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and Safety | $350 for a temporary commercial certificate — a permanent certificate carries no separate fee, calculated instead within the building permit itself | permanent once issued, unless the use or occupancy changes | 2026-09-04 |
| Commercial Building Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and Safety | $100 application fee plus the greater of $75 or 1.5% of the total cost of work. | one-time, per project | 2026-09-04 |
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
Electrician License
Allentown licenses electricians, plumbers and sheet metal technicians individually rather than requiring a general contractor city license — a plumber's fees run the same $60 to $90 range, and a sheet metal technician's license is $180. No bonding requirement for any of the three trades is stated in the fee schedule reached.
Certificate of Occupancy
A temporary certificate may be issued before full completion once every fire alarm, suppression system and fire-rated assembly is finished and approved — a genuine safety floor rather than a paperwork formality.
Commercial Building Permit
A further state-mandated Uniform Construction Code fee applies on top, but the city's own code gives two conflicting figures for it in two different chapters — $2 in one, $4.50 in the other — so neither is asserted here as the confirmed current amount.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Allentown
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
- Website
- www.allentownpa.gov/
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.
- Allentown Code Chapter 270, Article V — fee schedule for occupancy, building, trade and food licensesCity of Allentown, codified by General Code · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
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