Grayson County
Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division
In short
Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division issues 8 permits we publish for Grayson County, last verified 2026-08-27. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swimming Pool and Spa Permit | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | $300 per pool or spa, per year | 1 calendar year | 2026-08-27 |
| Temporary Food Establishment Permitonly if it applies to you | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | $35 per event | up to 14 consecutive days for a single event | 2026-08-27 |
| Liquid Waste Transporter Permitonly if it applies to you | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | $50 per vehicle, per year | 1 calendar year, expiring 31 December | 2026-08-27 |
| Retail Food Establishment Permit | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | $250–$773 per year, by risk category | 1 year | 2026-08-27 |
| Day Care and School Sanitation Inspectiononly if it applies to you | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | $150 per inspection | per inspection | 2026-08-27 |
| Farmers Market Permitonly if it applies to you | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | $35–$100 annual or one-time | one calendar year, or seven calendar days for the one-time permit | 2026-08-27 |
| Food Manager Registration | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | No fee | per establishment permit term | 2026-08-27 |
| Change of Owner, Name or Location Application | Grayson County Health Department — Environmental Health Division | No fee | per application | 2026-08-27 |
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
Swimming Pool and Spa Permit
$300 per pool or spa a year — charged per body of water, so a hotel with a pool and a spa pays $600. Municipalities are exempt. A late penalty of $50 applies if payment arrives after 31 March, which makes the deadline a fixed calendar date rather than an anniversary of your own permit. The county will not issue at all until the certification on the application has been completed and verified by an inspector, so leave time for that step.
Temporary Food Establishment Permit
$35 for up to fourteen consecutive days at a single event, with a further $20 if the county has to collect the fee on site — so applying in advance saves more than half again. A non-profit holding a 501(c)(3) determination with the county pays nothing. Applications are due five business days before the event, and food handler cards must be on site throughout. The permit is not transferable.
Liquid Waste Transporter Permit
$50 per vehicle, with a copy of the TCEQ registration required and the permit carried in each vehicle. The term runs to 31 December whatever month it is issued, and a late fee of $50 — the whole permit fee again — applies to anything postmarked after that. The permit falls on the hauler rather than the premises, but the consequence lands on you: the food establishment application requires you to name your transporter and its Grayson County or TCEQ number, so an unpermitted contractor holds up your own permit.
Retail Food Establishment Permit
$250 low risk, $400 medium and $550 high, with a multi-department establishment — a deli, meat market or bakery inside a store — capped at $773. The category sets the inspection frequency too: low risk is inspected once a year, medium and high twice. What puts you in a band is the process, not the size. Selling only prepackaged time and temperature controlled food is low; a hot dog roller, cut fruit or an ice cream and snow cone counter is medium; a full-service restaurant, a preschool, a hospital or anything doing reduced-oxygen packaging is high. The initial inspection is $200, a reinspection $200 and the late fee $100 — the last of these doubled from $50 when the structure changed.
Day Care and School Sanitation Inspection
$150 per inspection, and the structural change behind it matters more than the price. Day care and school retail food permits were DISCONTINUED on 1 September 2025. A facility that needs a general sanitation inspection for its state licensing agency must now request that inspection from the county separately, rather than holding a food permit that included one. If your licensing renewal depends on a county inspection, it is now something you ask for rather than something that arrives.
Farmers Market Permit
$100 for the year and — this is the part worth knowing — it is valid at ANY farmers market in Grayson County, not at one. A trader working three markets holds one permit. A one-time permit covering seven consecutive days is $35, and an egg-only annual permit $50. A non-profit with a 501(c)(3) determination on file with the county pays nothing. The late fee is $50 and a returned cheque $30; a one-time application must be in five business days before the event.
Food Manager Registration
No separate fee, but it is a real filing obligation and it is easy to get wrong. Every certified food manager must be listed on the establishment application by name, permit number and expiry date, with additional managers listed on the back, and copies of all manager and handler permit cards must be filed with the application along with the work roster. A food manager must be present during all hours of food activity — not merely employed, present — so a site trading breakfast through late evening needs enough certified managers to cover the whole trading day. The county's older paper application, produced in February 2019, required a registered manager on duty during each shift and separate manager registration with the county; the September 2023 packet that replaced it drops both sentences. The county has not published a manager registration fee, and none appears in the September 2025 fee restructure.
Change of Owner, Name or Location Application
There is no transfer fee because there is no transfer. The permit is non-transferable and a new one is required for a new owner, a change of name or a new location — three separate triggers, any one of which restarts the process rather than amending what exists, and the county's farmers market and temporary food forms of 29 July 2026 repeat the non-transferability in their own terms. What a change of ownership actually costs is set out in the county's September 2023 packet: notify the Environmental Health Division, which reviews the previous establishment's inspection reports for structural or equipment defects and may require correction; a plan review at $150, waived where only minor corrections are needed; then the applicable annual permit fee, which since 1 September 2025 is risk-based at $250 low, $400 medium, $550 high and $773 for a multiple-department establishment such as a deli, meat market or bakery. Budget for the plan review being charged rather than waived until the division says otherwise. Note also that the packet's $50 late fee is superseded: the September 2025 notice sets it at $100.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Grayson County
- Phone
- (903) 465-2878
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.
- Grayson County Health Department Farmers Market Permit Application, dated 29 July 2026Grayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- Grayson County Health Department Liquid Waste Transporter Permit ApplicationGrayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- Grayson County Health Department Retail Food Establishment packet (FORM-Food_6_Pack, revised September 2023) — permit application, change-of-ownership procedure, employee permit requirements and plan reviewGrayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- Grayson County Health Department Retail Food Establishment Permit Application — a scan of a paper form produced 14 February 2019 and superseded by the September 2023 packet; its fee table also predates the 1 September 2025 restructureGrayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- Grayson County Health Department Swimming Pool and Spa Permit ApplicationGrayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- Grayson County Health Department Temporary Food Establishment Permit Application, dated 29 July 2026Grayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- Grayson County updates retail food establishment permits and fees to align with new state law — approved by Commissioners' Court 26 August 2025, effective 1 September 2025Grayson County Health Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
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