Electrical Panel permits across Texas
Where each city draws the line on electrical panel work. Sort any column — useful if you build across several towns and need to know where the rules change.
Cities compared
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Always need one
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Depends on size
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| Where the line falls | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston | 2,390,125 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| San Antonio | 1,526,656 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel is reg… | Electrical permit fee per the city fee schedule (Sec. 10-10… |
| Austin | 993,588 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| El Paso | 681,723 | Yes | A service panel upgrade or replacement is not on the elec… | You pay the established electrical permit fee when the perm… |
| Corpus Christi | 317,317 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel needs … | Residential electrical trade permit is $0.075 per square fo… |
| Plano | 293,286 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel needs … | You pay the electrical permit fee set in the City of Plano … |
| Laredo | 261,260 | Yes | Minor repairs and maintenance are exempt; installing or a… | — |
| McKinney | 227,526 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Inspection/permit fee 'as determined from time to time by c… |
| Grand Prairie | 207,331 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel needs … | Electrical building permit minimum fee is $60.00 for a dwel… |
| Amarillo | 203,729 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Electrical permit fee per Sec. 4-1-30 fee schedule (Divisio… |
| Brownsville | 191,967 | Yes | Any alteration or addition to existing electrical wiring … | — |
| Denton | 165,998 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Пошлина за электроразрешение по тарифу города. Тариф Sec. 3… |
| Killeen | 160,616 | Yes | You need an electrical permit to upgrade or replace an el… | The code does not print a dollar amount. The city sets perm… |
| Mesquite | 150,140 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Residential electrical permit (includes electrical service … |
| Pasadena | 149,617 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Electrical permit fees per City of Pasadena Ordinance No. 2… |
| Waco | 146,608 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | The code does not print a dollar amount. The electrical per… |
| Midland | 143,687 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel needs … | The code does not print a dollar amount; a composite fee is… |
| Lewisville | 135,983 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Electrical permit fee is set by the city fee schedule (Sec.… |
| Round Rock | 135,359 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Abilene | 130,501 | Yes | Service panel upgrade/replacement exceeds the minor elect… | — |
| Pearland | 129,620 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel needs … | Set by Appendix A, Building Fee Schedule; the code does not… |
| College Station | 128,023 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Отдельная строка «Residential electrical permit» в графике … |
| League City | 118,456 | Yes | any install/alter/repair/replace/remodel of an electrical… | Electrical permit fees per the buildings and building regul… |
| Richardson | 118,221 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Part of the building permit fee; where no building permit i… |
| New Braunfels | 116,477 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Требуется electrical permit; электротехнические пошлины опл… |
| Conroe | 114,581 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Electrical permit — строка 'Electrical service or meter' в … |
| Allen | 113,746 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Устанавливается городским fee schedule (App. C). Числовой с… |
| Sugar Land | 109,851 | Yes | Upgrading or replacing an electrical service panel needs … | Set by the community development fee schedule (Sec. 2-137);… |
“Unconfirmed” means the city's code doesn't state the rule plainly enough to publish. Those city pages link straight to the ordinance section instead.
Why neighboring cities disagree
Every city starts from a model code and then edits it. One town raises the shed cutoff, the next lowers the fence height, a third exempts the structure where its neighbor only exempts repairs to it. None of that is visible from a national article — you have to read each ordinance, which is what these pages do.