What permits do you need to open a childcare centre in Hawaii County?

There is no single figure, and any site quoting one is rounding away the part that matters. Of the 13 records listed for a childcare centre in Hawaii County, HI, 4 apply to every business of this type and 9 are conditional. Adding every fee on the page together would overstate what most operators pay, because it would include permits they never need.

Of the 4 that always apply, 1 carry a flat fee, coming to $200.00. That is a floor, not a total. 3 of the 13 are charged as a range or a formula set by the issuing agency, and 3 have no fee published at all. The ones that vary:

Commercial Building Permit: Valuation-based schedule per HCC §5-7-3(b): $10 for work valued $0-$500; for $501-$2,000, $10 plus $1.50 per additional $100 (or fraction) up to $2,000; for $2,001-$25,000, $32.50 plus $7.50 per additional $1,000 (or fraction) up to $25,000; for $25,001-$50,000, $205 plus $6 per additional $1,000 (or fraction) up to $50,000; for $50,001 and up, $355 plus $3 per additional $1,000 (or fraction). Carports, garages, porches, patios, lanais, and detached U-occupancy accessory structures are billed separately at $10 per 100 sq. ft. (or fraction) regardless of valuation.

Building Plan Review Fee: 20% of the Building Permit fee, with a $50 minimum, due with the application per HCC §5-7-1(a). No additional fee applies to a second plan submittal; a third submittal is $250, a fourth is $500, and each further submittal is $1,000.

Child Care Licence: Fee not published — every official application page lists the required forms without stating a dollar amount anywhere

Permits for a childcare centre in Hawaii County, HI come from 5 separate offices: County of Hawai'i, Department of Finance, Vehicle Registration & Licensing Division, County of Hawai'i, Department of Public Works, Building Division, County of Hawai'i Planning Department (and Planning Commission), Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division, Hawaii Department of Human Services, Child Care Licensing Program. No single office issues them all, which is why an opening means filing in several places rather than one.

• County of Hawai'i, Department of Finance, Vehicle Registration & Licensing DivisionIssues 1 permit on this page: General Business License (not required by Hawaii County)101 Pauahi Street, Suite 5, Hilo, HI 96720 · (808) 961-8351www.vrl.hawaiicounty.gov/other-services/business-occupation-licensing
• County of Hawai'i, Department of Public Works, Building DivisionIssues 3 permits on this page: Commercial Building Permit, Building Plan Review Fee, Certificate of Occupancy101 Pauahi Street, Suite 7, Hilo, HI 96720 · (808) 961-8321www.hawaiicounty.gov/departments/public-works/building
• County of Hawai'i Planning Department (and Planning Commission)Issues 4 permits on this page: Plan Approval, Use Permit, Special Permit, Special Management Area (SMA) Use Permit (Major)101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3, Hilo, HI 96720 · (808) 961-8288www.planning.hawaiicounty.gov
• Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Business Registration DivisionIssues 4 permits on this page: Articles of Incorporation, General Business Licence (not required by Hawaii), Articles of Organization (LLC), Annual Report335 Merchant Street, Room 201, Honolulu, HI 96813 · (808) 586-2727cca.hawaii.gov/breg
• Hawaii Department of Human Services, Child Care Licensing ProgramIssues 1 permit on this page: Child Care Licence1010 Richards Street, Suite 512, Honolulu, HI 96813 · (808) 587-5266humanservices.hawaii.gov/bessd/child-care-program/child-care-licensing

No fee applies. The Vehicle Registration & Licensing Division's own current Business & Occupation Licensing page names the complete, fixed set of individual licenses Hawaii County issues (Auctioneer, Bicycle Tours, Firearms to Sell, Electric Guns, Purchasing/Wrecking/Rebuilding Cars, Pawnbroker, Scrap Dealer, Second Hand Dealer) — none of them a general, catch-all business license, and none of them specific to any of this project's ten industries. Unlike the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii County's list also has no peddler or itinerant-vendor category at all; the closest local analog to that kind of permit is the Special Activity Permit recorded elsewhere in this file. Hawaii's General Excise Tax Licence, recorded at the state layer, remains the real universal state-level registration every business needs; this county layer adds no general license on top of it.

This is a genuine, complete, currently-published valuation-based fee table — confirmed directly from Hawai'i County Code §5-7-3(b), read in full — unlike the equivalent unpublished table this project could not retrieve for Honolulu. Starting work before a permit is issued triggers a doubled fee or a flat $1,000 added on top, whichever is greater, per §5-7-3(d); the County and its own contractors, along with Habitat for Humanity (Hilo and Kona) and Hawai'i Community College's Model Home Project, are exempt from the permit fee itself under §5-7-3(g)-(h). A separate Building Plan Review Fee (20% of this permit fee) and a Certificate of Occupancy are recorded as their own lines below.

Charged on every building-permit application under Article 7 of the Construction Administrative Code, in addition to, not instead of, the Building Permit fee itself recorded above. Plan review fees are non-refundable per §5-7-8, even where the underlying permit fee later qualifies for a partial refund.

No building or structure may be used or occupied, and no change of occupancy classification may be made, until the Building Division issues a Certificate of Occupancy confirming the work complies with the construction code — mandatory for every commercial occupancy in this project's ten industries. A separate $200 fee, confirmed directly from §5-7-6, applies only if a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy is requested to occupy part of the building before all permitted work is finished.

No fee applies — none is published anywhere on the Planning Department's own current Application for Plan Approval form. This site-plan and zoning-compliance review requires a scaled site plan, building elevations, a Public-Works-approved drainage plan, and a real-property-tax clearance from the Director of Finance, and is the Planning Department's own product for confirming a proposed commercial use and site layout comply with the Zoning Code before construction proceeds.

Required only when a proposed non-agricultural use is not permitted outright in its zoning district and the property is not zoned Agricultural or Rural (the Special Permit recorded below covers that case instead); whether a specific business needs it depends on the exact use and zoning district. The Planning Commission's own current application form states directly: 'A filing fee of five hundred dollars ($500) to be paid via EPIC.' A childcare facility whose proposed location is not a permitted use outright would use this same pathway, layered on top of, not instead of, Hawaii's own state Child Care Licence recorded at the state layer.

Hawaii County's own current Special Permit Application states directly: 'A filing fee of five hundred dollars ($500) to be paid via EPIC' — the identical figure charged for the Use Permit above, confirmed independently from this separate form. This is the Planning Commission's pathway for an 'unusual and reasonable' non-agricultural use of land zoned Agricultural or Rural — common on the Big Island, where a large share of land carries that zoning — and applies to any of this project's ten industries proposing to operate on such land where the use is not permitted outright.

Applies only to a proposed development on a property within the state-defined coastal Special Management Area, not islandwide. The Planning Commission's own current Major SMA Use Permit application states directly: 'A filing fee of five hundred dollars ($500) to be paid via EPIC.' This project could not confirm a separate, lower fee for a Minor SMA process from any primary government document it could retrieve, so no Minor SMA figure is asserted here; a business should confirm with the Planning Department whether its project qualifies for a Minor rather than Major review.

The same $51 as an LLC, once the archives fee is included, and the same $25 expedite option.

No fee, beyond the general excise tax licence every business needs anyway. Hawaii's own business action centre, the state's front door for opening a company, treats general excise tax registration as the universal state requirement rather than pointing to any separate general business licence, and no other state page describes one.

Fifty dollars for the filing itself plus a flat $1 state archives fee tacked onto every DCCA filing, for $51 in practice. Expedited processing adds a further $25. A corporation costs the same $51 to form.

There is no single shared filing date in Hawaii — the due date is set entirely by which calendar quarter an entity originally registered in. Register in February and the report falls due every 31 March afterward; register in August and it falls due every 30 September. This has held since 2003, so it is not a recent quirk. Two figures circulate for the fee itself, $15 on the published paper fee schedule and $12.50 in more recent online-filing guidance — filing online appears to be the cheaper channel, but confirm the exact current figure at checkout before relying on either number precisely. Two straight years of non-filing is grounds for involuntary dissolution.

Hawaii licenses group child care centres and homes as a genuine requirement, and separately registers a smaller family child care home caring for three to six unrelated children. No fee is recorded here because none appears anywhere in the department's own application guidance — every page listing the required forms is silent on cost, and the full governing rule could not be read in its entirety to confirm a figure either way. Confirm the current fee, if any, directly with the licensing office before budgeting for it.