Chesterfield County
Virginia Department of Health, Chesterfield Health District
In short
Virginia Department of Health, Chesterfield Health District issues 2 permits we publish for Chesterfield County, last verified 2026-10-02. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Establishment Permit | Virginia Department of Health, Chesterfield Health District | Plan Review Fee $40 (one-time, before construction or remodel) plus Annual Permit Fee $40 a year. | annual | 2026-10-02 |
| Temporary Food Establishment Permitonly if it applies to you | Virginia Department of Health, Chesterfield Health District | $40 per event | per event; application must be filed at least 10 business days before the event | 2026-10-02 |
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
Food Establishment Permit
A restaurant, coffee shop or mobile food unit (including a food truck) operating in Chesterfield County needs this permit from the Chesterfield Health District, a Virginia Department of Health field office, not a county department. The district's own published fee table charges a $40 Plan Review Fee before construction or remodeling and a $40 Annual Permit Fee, both effective July 1, 2011 and still the district's current, maintained figures as of its most recent page update. The county's own Business License Classification Affidavit (Q8) requires an applicant answering yes to restaurant or food-truck questions to submit a copy of this VDH permit along with the BPOL application. The district's fee table lists only Hotels/Motels, Restaurants, Summer Camps, Campgrounds and the Temporary Food Establishment Permit as its categories, with no separate line for a mobile unit, so a food truck is charged under this same general food-establishment fee rather than a mobile-specific figure.
Temporary Food Establishment Permit
A food vendor, including a food truck, selling food at a one-off event in Chesterfield County uses the Temporary Food Establishment Permit instead of the standing food-establishment permit: $40 per event, the same 2011 effective date as the district's other published food fees, with the application filed at least 10 business days before the event. This permit is issued by the Chesterfield Health District, a Virginia Department of Health field office, and covers the event-based case that a mobile unit's standing annual permit does not. No separate food-truck-specific fee line exists in the district's published fee table beyond this general temporary-event figure and the standing permit recorded above.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Chesterfield County
- Phone
- 804-748-1691 (payments); 804-748-1610
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.
- VDH Chesterfield Health District — food establishment, temporary food and other environmental health permit fees, effective July 1, 2011Virginia Department of Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
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