Waynesville, MO Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Under § 500.020, if the City decides a project is complex enough to need a plan review by an outside engineer or consultant, the Building Inspector must promptly tell the applicant the estimated charge, and no further action happens on the application until that estimated amount is paid in full; once the actual cost is known, the City either refunds the difference or bills the applicant for any shortfall before the file moves forward. The same section's Building Permit Fee Schedule prices two inspection follow-ups by name: 'repetitive follow-up inspections of uncorrected discrepancies' cost $25 per reinspection, and 'reinspection of unauthorized occupied dwellings' costs $100 per reinspection.

In practice, that means a first inspection that turns up a problem is covered by the original permit fee, but every additional visit the Building Inspector has to make because the same discrepancy was not fixed costs $25 each time, and a dwelling found occupied without an approved inspection triggers the higher $100 reinspection charge. These figures sit inside the same fee schedule that prices building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits, and are due to the City the same way: paid before the City takes further action, and not refunded once collected.

The Building Inspector administers this process under the City Administrator (Ch. 116) for a Missouri city of the third class governed by ordinance of the Mayor and City Council.