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Fire and police impact fee

A charge for stations, apparatus and equipment needed to extend emergency coverage to new development.

Who charges it

The city, county or a fire protection district

The trap

Several states specifically bar fees for vehicles or for training and administrative facilities. Check what the study actually included.

Several acts restrict what a public safety fee may buy. Arizona excludes administrative and training facilities, helicopters and aircraft, and facilities that merely replace services provided elsewhere in the city.

Wisconsin prohibits impact fees for vehicles entirely. Utah's act bars public safety vehicles with one narrow exception for a ladder truck above a specified reach and cost, serving tall commercial buildings, and only chargeable to commercially zoned property.

Washington requires that new single-family homes with fire sprinkler systems be exempted from fire impact fees. If you are sprinklering voluntarily, that exemption is worth more than the sprinklers cost in some markets.

Where this is authorized

Among the states with a general enabling act, 20 list this facility type as eligible and 9 do not. States without an act are a local question entirely.

Listed as eligible

ArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoMontanaNevadaNew HampshireNew MexicoOklahomaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaUtahVermontWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsin

Not on the eligible list

DelawareIllinoisIndianaMaineNew JerseyOregonPennsylvaniaTexasVirginia

Next

Get the actual numberSix steps from parcel record to a written estimate. Check your stateWhat is authorized where you are building. Credits and offsetsWhere this fee can legally come down.
Read this before you rely on anything here. Impact Fee Map describes who is legally allowed to charge new construction, for what, and what a fee payer's rights are under state law. It does not publish fee amounts for any city, county or district, and it never will, because no source keeps thirty-nine thousand local schedules current and a stale number is worse than none. This is not legal advice, not a fee quote and not a substitute for the adopted fee schedule of the bodies with jurisdiction over your parcel. Statutes change; verify against the current text and confirm every figure in writing with the agency that will bill you.