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Depends on state and local authority

Other utility charges

Line extension charges, meter deposits, transformer costs and aid-in-construction payments.

Who charges it

Electric, gas, reclaimed water and fiber providers

The trap

Line extensions are quoted as a contract, not a fee schedule, and are the item most likely to arrive late and unbudgeted.

Electric and gas line extensions are contracts, not schedules. Request the quote as early as you have a site plan, because the lead time is longer than the permit process in many markets.

Aid-in-construction payments to a utility may be partially refundable as additional customers connect to the extension you paid for. Ask whether a refund contract exists and what triggers it.

Transformer, service drop and meter base costs are frequently split between utility and owner in ways that are not obvious from the tariff. Get the split in writing.

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.