Shreveport, LA Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Every building, electrical, HVAC and plumbing permit Shreveport issues carries its own inspection requirement, and Sec. 22-1 sets the price rather than describing a step-by-step sequence of site visits. 25 for inspections tied to building permits issued outside the city limits. Stand-alone permits are carved out of that inside-city-limits fee. 25 reinspection fee, charged the same way whether the job sits inside or outside the city limits, and that reinspection charge repeats for every failed visit until the work finally passes. These inspection fees sit on top of, not instead of, the underlying permit fee set out in Sec.

22-1(1) and (2): a contractor pays the construction permit fee up front and then the inspection fee, and again for every reinspection a failed visit triggers. The chief building official and the permits and inspections division administer the process, and Sec. 22-26(b) ties the whole system together by conditioning permit issuance on the contractor holding a current city registration; Sec. 22-1(3)c goes further and blocks any new permit to an applicant who still has an uncorrected violation outstanding on an existing permit. Separately, Sec. 22-27 lets the chief building official order debris from a fire, demolition or construction job off a lot within 72 hours of written notice, backed by misdemeanor penalties for noncompliance.