Pearland
City of Pearland Health Department
In short
City of Pearland Health Department issues 5 permits we publish for Pearland, last verified 2026-08-24. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Certificate for Food Related Establishments | City of Pearland Health Department | $250–$750 by risk category | not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-08-24 |
| Peddlers Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Pearland Health Department | $75 per permit, maximum 3 months | maximum 3 months | 2026-08-24 |
| Emergency Tow Truck Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Pearland Health Department | $100–$200 first or additional truck | not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-08-24 |
| Short-Term Rental Permit | City of Pearland Health Department | $75 per application | not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-08-24 |
| Temporary Food Establishment Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Pearland Health Department | $50 per permit | not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-08-24 |
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
Health Certificate for Food Related Establishments
Three risk bands: $250 low, $500 medium, $750 high, with a $30 processing fee on top of whichever applies. A general inspection is $150. The reinspection charge is the one to plan around, because it is not flat: failing an initial inspection costs fifty per cent of the permit fee, so $125 on a low-risk site and $375 on a high-risk one — the establishments least able to absorb a failure are also the ones charged most for it. Note that the fee table Pearland filed with Texas DSHS in January 2026 prices this permit on employee count instead, from $150 to $750 full service and $125 to $250 limited preparation; Ordinance No. 1358-33 of 22 June 2026 is later and is the instrument that adopts the fees, so the risk bands above are the current ones. If a member of staff quotes you an employee-count figure, this is why.
Peddlers Permit
$75 for the primary permit holder for a maximum of three months, plus $5 a month for each assistant working under them. The line that actually decides whether this is viable is the third one: a $1,000 surety bond is required. Door-to-door and street selling in Pearland is therefore a four-figure commitment before the first sale, not a $75 one.
Emergency Tow Truck Permit
$200 for the first tow truck and $100 for each additional one, issued through the Police Department section of the schedule. A five-truck operation therefore pays $600. Separate from the state licensing a tow operator holds from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Short-Term Rental Permit
$75 to apply, $100 for the inspection and $50 for a reinspection, administered through Community Development — so $175 to get to a first pass. Pearland is one of the few Texas cities in this dataset that prices short-term rental permitting explicitly in a fee ordinance rather than leaving it to a separate registration scheme.
Temporary Food Establishment Permit
$50, slightly below the $52 that recurs across Texas because it tracks the state maximum. The schedule does not state how many days it covers, so confirm the term with the Health Department before committing to a run of events.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Pearland
- 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 Pearland food establishment fee table filed with Texas DSHS, January 2026 — superseded by Ordinance No. 1358-33City of Pearland, filed with Texas Department of State Health Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24
- City of Pearland Ordinance No. 1358-33, Exhibit A Fee Schedule, passed on second and final reading 22 June 2026City of Pearland, filed with Texas Department of State Health Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24
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