Mansfield
City of Mansfield Development Services
In short
City of Mansfield Development Services issues 8 permits we publish for Mansfield, last verified 2026-08-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Remodel and Interior Finish Permit | City of Mansfield Development Services | 2.5% of valuation, minimum $125, plus a $200 non-refundable plan review fee | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Building Mechanical, Plumbing and Electrical Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Mansfield Development Services | $75 per trade permit | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Certificate of Occupancy | City of Mansfield Development Services | $75 each | not stated in the published schedule | 2026-08-25 |
| Carnival and Temporary Amusement Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Mansfield Development Services | $300 per event, plus a $600 clean-up deposit | per event | 2026-08-25 |
| Sign Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Mansfield Development Services | $75–$140 per sign, by type | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Interceptor and Separator Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Mansfield Development Services | $7 each, plus a $30 permit issuance fee | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Commercial Building Permit | City of Mansfield Development Services | $0.75 per square foot for commercial, retail, assembly, business, educational, institutional and mercantile new structures and additions; $0.50 per square foot for industrial, manufacturing and warehouse; plus a $200 non-refundable plan review fee per permit | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Contractor Annual Registration | City of Mansfield Development Services | $100 per year, per trade | 1 year; electrical registration expires with the state license | 2026-08-25 |
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
Commercial Remodel and Interior Finish Permit
Two and a half per cent of valuation with a $125 floor — one of the highest percentage rates in this dataset, and the definition of valuation is broad: the code counts all construction work plus finish work, painting, roofing, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and any other permanent equipment. A $250,000 fit-out is therefore $6,250 plus the $200 plan review, against roughly $1,050 in Burleson. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing are included in that figure rather than charged again. Starting work before the permit issues costs 100 per cent of the permit fee on top of the permit fee.
Building Mechanical, Plumbing and Electrical Permit
$75 each for a standalone building mechanical, plumbing or electrical permit — needed only where the work is not part of a building permit, because those include the trades. Plumbing work taken on its own is itemised instead: a $30 issuance fee plus $7 per fixture, per drainage or vent repair, per water heater, per gas line and per backflow device; $10 for a lawn sprinkler system; $14 for a pool, hot tub or spa connection; and $2 per gas outlet. Plumbing reinspections run $50, then $75, then $100.
Certificate of Occupancy
$75, the cheapest certificate of occupancy recorded here — against $180 in Rowlett, $250 in Converse and $125 in Allen. Reinspection is $100 each, an inspection outside normal business hours is $50 an hour on a two-hour minimum, and any inspection for which no fee is specified is $75 an hour. Additional plan review caused by a change to the scope of work is $100 an hour with a one-hour minimum, so late design changes are charged by time rather than by a flat resubmission fee.
Carnival and Temporary Amusement Permit
$300 plus a $600 refundable clean-up deposit — the deposit is twice the fee, which is the number to plan around for anyone running a seasonal event on a retail site. A tent permit is $60 each and a garage sale permit is free, application only.
Sign Permit
$100 each for a pole, ground or any other sign not classified as a wall sign, and $75 each for wall signs, temporary signs and promotional displays. Development and advertising signs are the dearest at $140. Unusually the wall sign is CHEAPER than the freestanding one here, which is the reverse of Rowlett and Burleson — so the shape of the sign, not its illumination, is what moves the price in Mansfield.
Interceptor and Separator Permit
$7 for each interceptor or separator — the code names grease, oil and sand explicitly, so it covers a restaurant's grease trap and a repair shop's oil and sand separator on the same line — plus the $30 permit issuance fee that applies to any plumbing permit. At $37 all in this is by a wide margin the cheapest interceptor permit in this dataset, against $100 in Converse and $81 a year in Wichita Falls. Note it is a one-off installation permit rather than an annual charge.
Commercial Building Permit
Priced on floor area, and the code says the mechanical, electrical and plumbing fees are INCLUDED in the permit fee — which is unusual and makes Mansfield much cheaper than it first looks against cities that charge each trade separately. A 4,000 square foot restaurant is $3,000 plus $200 plan review, with no separate MEP permits to buy. The area is measured as the entire square footage under the roof. The plan review fee is due at submittal and is non-refundable whether or not the permit issues.
Contractor Annual Registration
$100 a year for a mechanical contractor and $100 a year for a plumbing contractor, the latter covering licensed plumbers, irrigators and backflow testers in the same registration. Electrical is different: the code requires registration with the city on top of a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation license, and says the registration expires on the date the state license expires rather than on its own anniversary — so an electrician's city registration can lapse mid-year without warning.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Mansfield
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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.
- City of Mansfield Code of Ordinances section 150.006, Building Permit Fees (as amended by Ord. OR-2416-25, passed 25 August 2025)City of Mansfield · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-25
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