Town of Paxton

A city address is usually permitted by the city, not the county — but not always, and some authorities keep building and hand electrical to someone else. Getting this wrong costs the whole submittal, because every requirement below belongs to whoever actually holds jurisdiction. Check the overlays in the same pass: an HOA, a historic district, a windstorm certification or a system-size cap can reshape the design, and all of them are cheaper to find now than after the array is laid out.

• Is this authority the AHJ for residential solar at this address? No. The City/Town of Paxton is not the AHJ for residential solar; Walton County is. See jurisdiction block. 90% · county checklist + cross-checked registries
• What does this authority permit itself, and what does it delegate? Delegated. Walton County Building Department issues and inspects both Building and Electrical permits inside Paxton's town limits. Paxton retains only Planning/zoning review (its own 'Planning' department and 'Planning Commission'), which the County's own Building Permit Checklist requires as item 5 (Planning-approved site plan/review sheet/letter) before a building permit, and which the County's Inspection Checklist requires as a second, commercial-only 'approval by the city' step. 88% · county checklist
• Is a permit required for a residential rooftop PV system? Yes. A permit is required for a residential rooftop PV system, via Walton County. Walton County Code Sec. 6-29(a)(2) (as amended by Ord. No. 2025-17): a permit is required when an owner/agent/contractor 'desires to erect, enlarge, alter, repair, remove, convert, or replace any electrical...system, the installation which is regulated by the technical codes.' No solar/PV exemption appears in the ordinance text. 85% · adopting ordinance (2025, OCR'd)
• Is there a separate electrical permit, or is it combined? Either. Walton County's Standalone Permit Application (rev. 03/10/23) has a plain 'Electrical Permit' section (Service Reconnect / Service Panel / Service Change Over) with no PV/solar checkbox, usable for an electrical-only retrofit; a PV job that also needs racking/structural work would instead go through, or alongside, a Building Permit Application. There is no dedicated combined 'solar' permit type. 62% · county permit application form
• Is there a historic-district review? Not via Walton County - and Paxton's own position is UNRESOLVED, not absent. The Walton County Land Development Code's own Historical Resources Protections chapter (Appendix C, Ch. IV, Sec. 4.08.00), Design Review Board (Sec. 1.10.05), and U.S. 98/U.S. 331 Scenic Corridor Overlay District with Architectural Controls (Sec. 6.11.00 - relevant because Paxton itself sits directly on US-331) do NOT reach inside Paxton: the LDC's own General Applicability clause (Sec. 1.07.01) states its provisions apply to the 'unincorporated area of Walton County, and no development shall be undertaken without prior authorization pursuant to this Code' - Paxton is incorporated, so none of the County's design/historic-review machinery applies within its town limits, proven rather than assumed. Whether PAXTON ITSELF has adopted any historic-district or design-review ordinance of its own could NOT be established: its live site (paxtonfl.net) returns a Cloudflare bot-management challenge to every plain HTTP fetch tried in this run (curl and WebFetch alike), which this brief prohibits working around with headless-browser tools; the Internet Archive has never captured Paxton's own /planning page or any ordinance/code page (checked via a full CDX pull of the domain, 439 unique captures, none under a planning/zoning/ordinance/historic path); Paxton is absent from Municode's Florida client list (checked directly via the API); and qcode.us/ecode360 resolve the slug 'paxton' to a same-named path without a 'not found' error - a real lead that a General Code (eCode360) hosted municipal code may exist for Paxton - but that site is also behind the same Cloudflare challenge and could not be read in this run. So: the CODE IS SILENT at the level this run could reach (the county), and Paxton's own code is genuinely unreachable, not silent. 58% · county land development code (via Municode content API) + proven-unreachable town code
• Is a wind or windstorm certification required? No AHJ-published wind or windstorm certification distinct from the general Florida Product Approval and structural-plan-seal route. Walton County's Coastal Building Zone Ordinance 2007-53 requires an engineer/architect wind-velocity certification (140 MPH design) only within the Coastal Building Zone, which does not reach Paxton's inland, far-northern location in the county (see q13). Outside that zone, the general checklist calls for a signed & sealed Wind Load Statement attached to plans, and a Florida Product Approval specification sheet for roofing/racking-type products. 58% · county ordinance + county checklist
• Is a Specific Use Permit or Council approval ever required? No Special Use Permit or Council approval is stated as required for a residential rooftop PV retrofit. The one Council/Planning-level step that clearly exists is scoped to COMMERCIAL work: Walton County's Building Permit Checklist requires a 'Development Order from the Planning Department with Approved Site Plan and Review Sheet' (naming the same Paxton Planning contact) only under its 'Commercial Projects or Multi-Family Units of 3 or more' heading, not under the residential one- or two-family heading. The County's Inspection Checklist's 'Commercial buildings inside Freeport and Paxton City limits will need approval by the city' clause is the same commercial-only pattern. 75% · county checklist
• Is there a system-size cap on residential generation? The County itself does not cap residential system size in the ordinance text read in this run. The operative caps sit at utility level: CHELCO's Tier 1 Net Metering path covers systems 'Renewable energy generation 10 kW or less'; FPL's tiered interconnection structure (Tier 1/2/3, referenced in its Electric Service Standards) similarly scales requirements (System Impact Study, disconnect-switch rules) by size, with Tier 1 being the streamlined path. 65% · utility interconnection instructions

Several authorities require the electrical permit to be pulled by a licensed electrician, or require the contractor to be registered with them BEFORE applying. Registration is not same-day. This is second on the list rather than fourth because it is the step most likely to stop the job before the drawings matter.

• Who is allowed to pull the electrical permit? Either - a state DBPR-certified or registered contractor who has first registered with Walton County, or the property owner under Florida's owner-builder exemption (F.S. 489.103). Walton County's Contractors License page: 'Certified Contractors are required to register their DBPR license with Walton County in order to work in Walton County.' Neither Walton County nor Paxton has any role in who may pull the permit - Paxton has no contractor registry of its own. 78% · county department page
• Must the contractor be registered with this authority before applying? Yes, but with Walton County, not Paxton. 'Certified Contractors are required to register their DBPR license with Walton County in order to work in Walton County.' Certificates of liability and workers' compensation naming Walton County Building Department must be on file; licenses expire August 31 annually. Paxton itself has no contractor-registration function. 88% · county department page
• Is a homeowner permitted to self-install and self-permit? Yes, in principle - Florida's owner-builder exemption (F.S. 489.103) lets an owner build or improve his own one- or two-family residence without a licensed contractor, and Walton County's general permitting forms accommodate an owner-applicant. No solar-specific county statement confirms or excludes a self-installed PV array, and Paxton has no separate rule. 58% · county department page + general FL statute

Almost everywhere wants a site plan, a one-line or three-line electrical diagram, equipment cut sheets with listings, and a structural attachment detail. Build it against the published checklist rather than the last jurisdiction you worked in — the checklist is what the reviewer marks against.

• What documents make up a complete submittal? No solar-specific checklist is published by Paxton or Walton County. For a residential building permit, Walton County's own current checklist requires: (1) Building Permit Application, (2) parcel number, (3) recorded-deed proof of ownership, (4) septic/utility availability documentation where applicable, (5) a PLANNING-APPROVED SITE PLAN WITH REVIEW SHEET AND/OR LETTER - for a Paxton parcel, obtained from Paxton Town Hall at (850) 834-2489, one of four named Planning contacts alongside County/DeFuniak Springs/Freeport, (6) plans (none required under 100 sq ft and non-coastal; otherwise signed & sealed, two copies), (7) fire-impact-fee receipt where applicable, (8) energy form if adding HVAC load, (9) a Florida Product Approval specification sheet for the installed products. If the job is filed as a standalone electrical permit instead (see q4), only the Standalone Permit Application itself is required and the Planning-letter step does not appear on that form except for the separate 'Electrical Temporary Pole' category. 68% · county checklist
• Is a site plan required, and what must it show? For the BUILDING-permit track, yes: item 5 of Walton County's checklist requires a 'Planning Approved Site Plan with Review Sheet and/or Letter' before the building permit, obtained (for a Paxton parcel) from Paxton Town Hall. The checklist does not itself specify what that site plan must show; it only gives general structure setbacks (Front 20 ft/Back 15 ft/Sides 7.5 ft, plus water-body setbacks). For a standalone electrical/PV-only filing, no site plan requirement appears on the Standalone Permit Application. 62% · county checklist
• Is a one-line / three-line diagram required? Not required by any Walton County form for the AHJ side. It IS required by the utility: FPL's current Electric Service Standards (10-30-25 revision) state that a System Impact Study 'may be required for some generating systems' and that 'All relaying and metering shall be provided in a one-line diagram. A three-line diagram may be required for some installations.' CHELCO's Tier 1 instructions separately require an 'electrical one-line diagram and specification sheets for inverter, renewable energy source and other installed equipment, such as PV panels.' 80% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd) + utility interconnection instructions
• Is a structural PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No PV-specific structural PE-stamp threshold is published. General rule: Walton County's checklist requires plans 'signed & sealed' whenever construction is 100 sq ft or larger and not in the coastal zone; within the Coastal Building Zone (Ord. 2007-53), certification by a Florida-registered architect or engineer is mandatory regardless of size, stating the structure is designed to withstand 140 MPH (unless engineering interpolation or in a V-Zone). Paxton, in the far northern, inland part of Walton County near the Alabama line, is not within the Coastal Building Zone (defined by Ord. 2007-53 as land between the 130/140 mph wind lines within the 100-year flood plain and Wind-Borne Debris Region), so the coastal certification requirement should not reach it, though this is inferred from the zone's own definition rather than a county map confirmation for this specific parcel range. 58% · county ordinance (Coastal Building Zone, 2007-53) + county checklist

Most authorities now take the whole application through a portal, and several states cap or constrain what a residential solar permit may cost. Check whether plan check is billed separately before you quote the job.

• Which permit portal does this authority use? Civic Access / Tyler Technologies EnerGov, referenced on the County's Inspections page as 'Civic Access (tylerhost.net)' alongside the Building Division's forms, and on the Building Division page as the Building Division's online portal. Paxton has no permit portal of its own - it is not the permitting authority. 80% · county department page
• What does a residential solar permit cost? No solar-specific fee line, and currently $0.00 regardless. Walton County's building-permit fees (including electrical) are abated to $0.00 from 1 Oct 2025 through 30 Sep 2026 under Resolution 2025-70 (continuing Resolution 2025-58), because the Building Department fund balance exceeded the F.S. 553.80 statutory cap. Absent the abatement, the fee would fall under the general valuation-based Building Permit fee table (Attachment A: $35 minimum up to $7,000; then increasing per-thousand brackets) if filed as a building permit, or under the standalone Electrical fee table (Attachment - Main Service Size fees $25-$100 by amperage, or per-item charges) if filed as a standalone electrical permit. A $29 plan-review deposit and a 10% plan-review fee (also currently abated) would otherwise apply on the building-permit track. Paxton itself charges nothing additional that is published. 80% · fee resolution (OCR'd)
• How is the fee calculated? Valuation-based if filed as a Building permit (against the Attachment A table, which uses contract/valuation cost); by main-service-amperage or per-item charge if filed as a standalone Electrical permit. All currently $0 under the active abatement (see q15). No per-kW or per-panel basis exists in either table. 68% · fee resolution (OCR'd)
• Is there a separate plan-check fee? Yes, on the building-permit track: a 10% plan-review fee (minimum floor implied by the resolution's language) is assessed separately from the permit fee, collected at submittal, plus a $29.00 plan-review deposit per the Building Permit Checklist. Both currently abated to $0 through 30 Sep 2026 along with the rest of Sec. 6-30's fee lines. No separate plan-check fee is described for a standalone electrical-only filing beyond the same abated schedule. 78% · fee resolution (OCR'd) + county checklist

Interconnection is a separate process from the permit and usually the longer pole. Where the utility does not depend on the permit being issued, running both at once is the single biggest saving available on a residential job.

• Which utility handles interconnection here? Split by parcel; not resolvable to one utility without a specific address. FPL (the legacy Gulf Power tariff, now under FPL post-merger) names 'Paxton' explicitly in its own PSC-filed Section 7 'Communities Served' tariff sheet, under a footnote grouping it with Bay/Escambia/Holmes/Jackson/Okaloosa/Santa Rosa/Walton/Washington as legacy Gulf Power counties. CHELCO (Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative), headquartered in nearby DeFuniak Springs, separately files a territory description covering 'primarily Okaloosa and Walton Counties, bounded on the North by the State of Alabama' - a boundary that geographically includes Paxton's location (Paxton sits in the far north of Walton County near the Alabama line) without naming it specifically. 80% · PSC-filed electric tariff, Section 7 (Communities Served)
• Where does the utility sit in the sequence? After permit, and after the County's own inspection, for both utilities. CHELCO's Tier 1 instructions: 'Once your system has been inspected by the county building department, submit the following...' including 'proof of county inspection' before CHELCO will arrange its own inspection and install a programmed meter. FPL's Electric Service Standards give the customer general responsibility for code compliance and inspection before energization but do not gate the APPLICATION on a prior county inspection the way CHELCO's does. 80% · utility interconnection instructions

The NEC edition a jurisdiction enforces is often a cycle behind the newest one published, and local amendments sit on top of it. Rapid shutdown, conductor sizing and labelling all change between editions, so the edition in force is the first thing to establish, not the last.

• Which NEC edition is in force? NFPA 70, most recent edition (floating reference) - Walton County Code Sec. 6-26(6), as amended by Ord. No. 2025-17: 'The Electrical Code shall be the most recent edition of the National Electric Code NFPA 70...' No year is pinned in the county's own ordinance text. 85% · adopting ordinance (2025, OCR'd)
• Which building code edition is in force? Florida Building Code, most recent edition (floating reference) - Walton County Code Sec. 6-26(1)-(9), as amended by Ord. No. 2025-17, adopts the Building, Residential, Existing Building, Accessibility, Energy Efficiency (Ch. 13 of the FBC), Plumbing, Mechanical and Gas Codes all as 'the most recent edition of the Florida Building Code.' The County's separate Building Codes page states the 2023 Florida Building Code (8th Edition) is the version currently in force. 85% · adopting ordinance (2025, OCR'd) + county department page
• Which fire code edition is in force? Florida Fire Prevention Code, latest edition, adopted by reference pursuant to F.S. 633.208 - Walton County Code Sec. 6-26(14), as amended by Ord. No. 2025-17: 'The latest edition of the Florida Fire Prevention Code, adopted by the State Fire Marshal.' No year is pinned in the county's own text. 82% · adopting ordinance (2025, OCR'd)
• Are there local amendments to any of the above? Yes - local amendments exist above the state-code baseline and reach residential electrical/structural work. Walton County's Wind-Borne Debris Regions and Basic Wind Speeds Map (Ord. 2007-43) sets locally-mapped wind speeds well above many inland-Florida baselines, and the Coastal Building Zone Ordinance (2007-53) requires 140 mph engineered design and mandatory architect/engineer certification within that zone (though Paxton itself is likely outside it - see q13/q26). Paxton itself has no amendments of its own that could be located. 80% · county ordinance (2007-53)
• What is the installation judged against? The installation is judged against: the Florida Building Code and NFPA 70 (NEC), both at whatever edition is currently 'most recent' per Walton County Code Sec. 6-26 (floating reference, no year pinned in the county's own text); the Florida Fire Prevention Code, latest edition, per Sec. 6-26(14); and Walton County's own Coastal Building Zone Ordinance 2007-53 and Wind-Borne Debris Regions Map where a specific parcel falls within their defined zones (Paxton's inland location makes this unlikely - see q13/q26). Utility-side technical requirements (UL 1741, IEEE 1547, disconnect placement) apply in parallel via FPL/CHELCO interconnection rules. 80% · adopting ordinance (2025, OCR'd)

Ridge setbacks and roof access pathways are fire-service requirements and they constrain the array layout. They are the most common cause of a redesign after the fire department comments on a plan set.

• What ridge setback and access pathways are required? Not established for Walton County or Paxton in this run. Walton County's Building Permit Checklist routes fire-related submittals (Fire Impact Fee Receipt, Fire Life Safety Plan Review) to South Walton Fire District, Liberty, or Argyle area fire departments/districts by geography, and Paxton's own fire coverage/district was not identified in this run. No ridge-setback or PV-access-pathway specification was found in any Walton County document read. 40% · county checklist (partial)

Which rapid-shutdown rule applies follows directly from the NEC edition in force, and the initiation device has to be at a location the fire service can reach and identify. This is inspected, and it is labelled.

• Is rapid shutdown required, and to which NEC edition? Rapid shutdown is required, to whatever NEC edition Walton County Code Sec. 6-26(6) currently incorporates by its 'most recent edition' floating reference - every NEC edition realistically in force in Florida in 2026 (2017, 2020, or 2023) carries a 690.12 rapid-shutdown requirement. Neither Walton County nor Paxton adds or subtracts anything. 65% · adopting ordinance (2025, OCR'd) + inference

The NEC sets a baseline for permanent markings at the service equipment and the disconnecting means. On top of that, an authority may specify its own wording, and the utility may specify more again. Where any of them writes its own text, a generic off-the-shelf label set will not pass — this is the detail most often fixed on a return visit.

• Which placards does this authority require at the service equipment? No AHJ-specific placard set from Paxton or Walton County - neither publishes anything. The utility supplies the only found placard specification: FPL's current Electric Service Standards (10-30-25 revision) require two placards at the interconnecting meter can and the DER disconnect switch - see q39/q40 for exact wording - plus a battery placard if storage is installed (see q45). CHELCO's own interconnection documents (Tier 1 instructions, read in full) specify no placard wording at all, only a documented disconnect-switch location. 82% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd)
• Does the authority specify placard wording of its own? Yes for FPL territory; not for CHELCO territory. FPL's Electric Service Standards specify exact wording at two locations: 'INTERCONNECTING METER CAN' placard reading 'WARNING / MULTI POWER SOURCES / ENTER SOURCES HERE' plus rated AC output current and nominal operating voltage; and 'DER DISCONNECT SWITCH' placard reading 'GENERATION SYSTEM AC DISCONNECT' plus the same current/voltage fields. CHELCO's Tier 1 instructions and general interconnection materials specify no wording of their own. 82% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd)
• Does it specify letter height, colour or material? FPL: 'All labels must be permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with engraved letters.' No specific letter height or colour figure was captured in the OCR'd text for this document; letter-height/colour, if specified, may sit on a diagram/figure page the OCR pass did not fully resolve as clean text. Not found for CHELCO territory. 68% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd)
• Does the UTILITY specify placards beyond the AHJ's? No. CHELCO specifies no placard or labelling beyond whatever the AHJ (Walton County/NEC) requires - its own current Tier 1 Net Metering Interconnection Instructions ask only for an 'electrical one-line diagram and specification sheets,' 'proof of county inspection,' and the interconnect agreement/application; no placard, sign, or marking requirement of CHELCO's own appears anywhere in that document. FPL's answer is recorded separately at q38-q40. 75% · utility interconnection instructions (proved absence in the document read)
• Where must the labels be placed? For FPL territory: the two required placards go at the interconnecting meter can and at the DER disconnect switch, which must itself be mounted 'separate from but adjacent to' the FPL meter (no locked gates, doors or fences between the meter socket and the disconnect switch). For CHELCO territory: no placard placement rule exists - CHELCO only requires the disconnect switch's electrical/physical location be documented on the submitted one-line diagram. 78% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd) + utility interconnection instructions

Where the AC disconnect must sit relative to the meter is usually the utility's rule, not the building department's. Battery storage frequently carries its own permit, its own inspection and its own fire conditions.

• Where must the AC disconnect be, relative to the meter? FPL territory: the DER disconnect switch must be mounted separate from, but adjacent to, the FPL meter socket, with no locked gates, doors or fences between the two, and must remain accessible to FPL at all times; Figure IV-1/IV-2 in FPL's current standards dimension this as 'NO GREATER THAN 10 FT FROM DER DISCONNECT SWITCH TO UTILITY METER.' CHELCO territory: its Tier 1 instructions require only that a non-inverter-based system's one-line diagram document the disconnect's 'electrical and physical location' - no fixed distance rule appears in the document actually read. 82% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd)
• Must equipment be on a specific approved list? Yes, at utility level - both FPL and CHELCO require inverter-based equipment to be UL 1741-listed and IEEE 1547-compliant as a condition of interconnection. No AHJ-published approved-equipment list was found at Walton County or Paxton level. 72% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd)
• Are batteries permitted, and under what conditions? FPL territory: batteries behind the meter must meet UL 1741 and carry a placard reading 'Battery storage utilized in this facility'; batteries integrated with renewable generation may not export beyond the renewable system's limits; stand-alone backup batteries need no interconnection agreement but must not back-feed the grid; continuously grid-interconnected battery storage requires a Small Generator Interconnection Agreement. CHELCO territory: its Tier 1 instructions (the only CHELCO document read in full in this run) do not mention batteries/ESS at all. 78% · utility Electric Service Standards (OCR'd)
• Is a ground mount treated as a structure? Yes, effectively. Walton County's own definition of 'Structure' (Ord. 2025-17, Sec. 6-29(a)(1)): 'Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on and/or below the ground, measuring 30 inches above natural grade. May be a building, wall, deck, sign, billboard, liquid storage tank, antenna, or tower.' A ground-mounted PV array would meet this definition and require a building permit (with, per q10, the Planning-approved-site-plan step, and per q13/q26, coastal certification IF within the Coastal Building Zone, which Paxton is likely outside of). 68% · adopting ordinance definitions (OCR'd)

Booking is a portal, a phone call or an email depending on the authority, and the notice required is rarely zero. Book before the work is finished rather than after — the lead time, not the work, is usually what sets the date.

• How is an inspection booked? Phone - call the Walton County Building Department at (850) 892-8160, Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-2:30 pm, per the County's own current Inspections page: 'To schedule an inspection, call the Building Department @ (850) 892-8160 Monday through Friday, 8:00 am through 2:30 pm.' The County's Civic Access/EnerGov portal is referenced elsewhere for permit search but the Inspections page itself gives the phone number as the booking channel. Paxton has no role in booking inspections - it performs none. 85% · county department page

Some authorities inspect their own solar work; some delegate it, and a few do not inspect the PV equipment itself at all. Who is coming determines what they will look at.

• Does this AHJ perform its own final solar inspection? No - not by Paxton; Yes - performed by Walton County. Walton County's Building Department 'inspects buildings, mobile homes, and swimming pools Monday through Friday, 7:00 am through 3:30 pm,' per its own current Inspections page, and is the same department that issues the permit inside Paxton's limits. Paxton performs no inspection of any kind. 85% · county department page
• If delegated, to whom? Delegated to Walton County Building Department (Building Official Billy Bearden), 117 E. Sloss Ave., DeFuniak Springs, FL 32433, (850) 892-8160 - see jurisdiction. Walton County Ordinance 2023-28 (not independently re-read in this run; carried from the same County-wide finding established in the Walton County survey) additionally allows a private provider under F.S. 553.791 for plan review/inspection in lieu of the County, which would further shift 'who inspects' for an applicant who elects that route. 80% · county department page

A rough-in or mid-roof inspection, where one is required, has to happen before the work it covers is closed up. Missing a stage means opening something back up, and it is the most expensive kind of correction.

• Which inspections are required, and in what order? Walton County's published checklists (Building Inspection Checklist, referenced on the Inspections page but not independently opened in this run) are general new-construction sequences. For a straightforward roof-mount PV retrofit with no new structure, filed as a standalone electrical permit, the sequence would in practice reduce to a single final electrical ('Power') inspection, consistent with how the County's Standalone Permit Application treats electrical work as its own permit type - but this is inference, not a stated county sequence for solar specifically. 55% · county department page (partial)

The approved plan set, the permit, and the equipment listings should be on site and reachable. Inspectors routinely verify that installed equipment matches what was approved, and that the labels are the ones the plan set promised.

• Is there a published inspection checklist? Yes, published inspection checklists exist, but they are general (all-trades/new-construction), not solar-specific - the County's Inspections page lists 'Building Inspection Checklist,' 'Mobile Home Inspection Checklist,' and 'Swimming Pool Inspection Checklist' as its three checklists, with no solar/PV/electrical-only equivalent. 75% · county department page

Passing gives you a final or an equivalent sign-off. That is not the same as permission to operate: PTO comes from the utility, and who tells the utility the inspection passed varies. A system left switched off for weeks is usually waiting on this handover.

• What is issued on pass? Not clearly stated for a bare retrofit. Walton County's general permitting structure implies a Certificate of Occupancy/Completion closes a BUILDING permit, while a standalone electrical permit would close on its own final ('Power') inspection approval without a new C.O. Neither document read in this run states this in so many words for a PV-specific job. 50% · inference from county permit forms
• Who notifies the utility for PTO? The applicant/installer notifies the utility, not the County and not Paxton. CHELCO's Tier 1 instructions: after county inspection, the member submits the interconnect agreement/application, fees, one-line diagram and proof of county inspection directly to CHELCO's Energy Services Department; CHELCO then arranges its own inspection and installs a programmed meter. FPL's process (per its Electric Service Standards) similarly places the burden of demonstrating code compliance and requesting interconnection on the customer/installer. 80% · utility interconnection instructions
• Is there a re-inspection fee? Yes: $30.00 per trip per trade. 'Re-inspection fees are $30 per trip per trade, pursuant to Section 2.0 Fee Schedules and Tables,' per the County's current Inspections page - independently corroborated by the same $30 figure OCR'd from Resolution 2025-70's fee schedule (Sec. (h): 'Reinspection fees: $30.00 per trip per trade'). Currently abated to $0 along with the rest of the fee schedule through 30 Sep 2026 (see q15). 88% · county department page + fee resolution (OCR'd)