Montgomery County
Montgomery County Environmental Health Services
In short
Montgomery County Environmental Health Services issues 3 permits we publish for Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial On-Site Sewage Facility Permitonly if it applies to you | Montgomery County Environmental Health Services | $210–$560 per permit, by scope and floodplain status | per permit | 2026-08-27 |
| Temporary Event and Farmers Market Food Permitonly if it applies to you | Montgomery County Environmental Health Services | $52–$800 per event or per year, by type | 14 days for a single event; 1 year for a multiple-event permit | 2026-08-27 |
| Retail Food Establishment Permit | Montgomery County Environmental Health Services | $250–$500 per year, banded by gross annual food sales | 1 year | 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
Commercial On-Site Sewage Facility Permit
A new commercial system is $400 plus the $10 state-mandated septic fee, rising to $550 plus $10 in the floodplain; an add-on to an existing system is $200 plus $10, or $335 plus $10 in the floodplain. Reinspection is $150 and non-compliance $200 per incident. This is the permit that catches restaurants and childcare centres opening outside a city sewer district, and it is a real constraint on siting rather than a formality — a subdivision review is $340 on top.
Temporary Event and Farmers Market Food Permit
$52 for a single event of up to 14 days and $200 for a multiple-event permit covering a year. A farmers market is $100. The two lines worth knowing are the mass gathering fees: $400 under 5,000 people and $800 above, which are charged to the organiser and are the largest single food-side figures on the schedule.
Retail Food Establishment Permit
$250 low volume, $375 mid volume and $500 high volume — the cheapest banded schedule of any jurisdiction held here, and well under the $773 that Senate Bill 1008 would permit at the top. Amending an existing permit rather than taking a new one is markedly cheaper: $100 low, $150 mid, $200 high. An initial inspection is $150 and a requested inspection or reinspection $150. The late fee is $100.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Montgomery County
- 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.
- Montgomery County Permitting Fee Schedule, effective 2 June 2025 — fire code, commercial structure, residential structure, health and septicMontgomery County · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
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