Brockton, MA Building Safety: Plumbing Permits (2026)

City Code § 4-7 sets the plumbing fee schedule administered by the department of inspectional services. Residential work costs $75 for a single-family plumbing permit plus $10 per fixture, and $75 per apartment plus $10 per fixture for multiple-dwelling plumbing permits. A re-inspection required because of incomplete or defective work costs $31 residentially. Commercial plumbing permits cost $150 plus $20 per fixture, with a $41 re-inspection fee for incomplete or defective commercial work. Subsection (c) states the underlying rule plainly: a permit must be filed before plumbing work begins, and failing to do so causes the fee to be doubled as an illegal-work penalty.

This filing-first requirement functions as Brockton's local plumbing permit mandate, layered on top of the state plumbing code and licensing requirements administered by the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, which govern who may perform the work. The gas fitting fee schedule in the immediately preceding § 4-6 mirrors this structure for gas permits and hot water installations, and both sections were codified at the editor's discretion from ordinances that did not specifically amend the code by their own terms, per the editor's notes following each section.