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Residential/Commercial Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Permit in City of St. Johns, Arizona

Required for installation of rooftop or ground-mounted solar photovoltaic systems within the City of St. Johns. The City has no standalone solar-specific application, document, or fee line published on its own website or in its Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule — a solar PV installation is billed and processed through the same general Building Permit mechanism used for other electrical/structural work (flat $50.00 residential fee, or ICC Building Valuation Data for commercial, plus the 65% plan review fee and $50.00/hour inspection fee). Arizona statute A.R.S. § 9-468 (Solar construction permits; standards; definition) applies statewide to every incorporated city and town, including St. Johns, and independently caps solar permit fees at the municipality's actual cost of issuing the permit, regardless of what a general valuation-based fee schedule would otherwise produce.

Verified 2026-07-20 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Solar PV installation within the incorporated City of St. Johns requires a building/electrical permit via the City's unified Building Permit Application, per the same mechanism documented for the City's other permitTypes
  • Per A.R.S. § 9-468(A), the City may not require a stamp/seal from a professional structural engineer for a residential rooftop PV system unless the City makes a finding, in writing, that such a stamp is necessary for a specific installation
  • Per A.R.S. § 9-468(D), any fee or charge the City assesses for a solar PV permit 'shall not exceed the actual cost of issuing the permit' — this is a real, binding statewide statutory ceiling on solar permit pricing that applies regardless of the City's general (non-solar) valuation-based fee table
  • Per A.R.S. § 9-468(E)-(F), before adopting or changing a solar permit fee the City must hold a public hearing with at least 15 days' published notice, and must make its fee-calculation methodology available to the public on request
  • Electrical interconnection work associated with the PV system requires compliance with the City-enforced National Electrical Code edition (see codesAdopted); the City's own documents do not identify a specific NEC edition year, consistent with the general code-edition ambiguity already flagged for this record

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Fee schedule

Solar PV Permit Fee
City of St. Johns Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023); Show full citationCity of St. Johns Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023); A.R.S. § 9-468(D) independently requires that whatever fee is actually charged for a solar permit 'shall not exceed the actual cost of issuing the permit,' regardless of how the general fee table calculates it.
Not separately itemized in the City of St. Johns Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023) — billed under the same general Residential Building Permit ($50.00 flat) or Commercial Building Permit (ICC Building Valuation Data) mechanism as other work, per that Fee Schedule
Plan Review FeeCity of St. Johns Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023) — same mechanism applied to new construction elsewhere in this record.
65% of the calculated Building Permit Fee
Inspection ServicesCity of St. Johns Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023).
$50.00/hour

Review timeline

Plan review
Not published — contact the department

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Inspection process

  1. 1

    Electrical / Final Inspection

    The City's available public documents (Fee Schedule, City Code, Zoning Ordinance) do not separately itemize a staged inspection sequence for solar PV; billed and inspected under the same general 'Inspection Services' mechanism as other building/electrical permits in this record.

Tips

  • St. Johns has no dedicated solar permit application, document checklist, or fee line published anywhere on its official website (stjohnsaz.gov) as of 2026-07-20 — a solar PV installation is processed as a standard Building Permit.
  • Even though the City has not published a solar-specific fee, Arizona's statewide A.R.S. § 9-468 independently caps whatever the City actually charges at its 'actual cost of issuing the permit' — ask the City to itemize its cost basis if the general Building Permit fee appears to exceed that standard.
  • A.R.S. § 9-468 also bars the City from requiring a professional engineer's stamp on a standard residential rooftop PV system absent a written, installation-specific finding of necessity.

Frequently asked questions

City of St. Johns requires a residential/commercial solar photovoltaic (pv) permit for: Solar PV installation within the incorporated City of St. Johns requires a building/electrical permit via the City's unified Building Permit Application, per the same mechanism documented for the City's other permitTypes; Per A.R.S. § 9-468(A), the City may not require a stamp/seal from a professional structural engineer for a residential rooftop PV system unless the City makes a finding, in writing, that such a stamp is necessary for a specific installation; Per A.R.S. § 9-468(D), any fee or charge the City assesses for a solar PV permit 'shall not exceed the actual cost of issuing the permit' — this is a real, binding statewide statutory ceiling on solar permit pricing that applies regardless of the City's general (non-solar) valuation-based fee table; Per A.R.S. § 9-468(E)-(F), before adopting or changing a solar permit fee the City must hold a public hearing with at least 15 days' published notice, and must make its fee-calculation methodology available to the public on request; Electrical interconnection work associated with the PV system requires compliance with the City-enforced National Electrical Code edition (see codesAdopted); the City's own documents do not identify a specific NEC edition year, consistent with the general code-edition ambiguity already flagged for this record. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of St. Johns City Hall — Planning and Zoning (Building Official designated under City Code) at (928) 337-4517 (City Hall main line); Fax (928) 337-2195 before starting work.

No distinct solar PV fee line is published in the City of St. Johns Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023) — a solar installation is billed through the same general Residential ($50.00 flat) or Commercial (ICC Building Valuation Data) Building Permit mechanism, plus the 65% plan review fee and $50.00/hour inspection fee. Arizona's statewide A.R.S. § 9-468 independently requires that any fee actually charged for a solar permit not exceed the City's actual cost of issuing it.

City of St. Johns does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact City of St. Johns City Hall — Planning and Zoning (Building Official designated under City Code) at (928) 337-4517 (City Hall main line); Fax (928) 337-2195 for current turnaround.

You'll need: Building Permit Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

City of St. Johns requires 1 inspection(s) for a residential/commercial solar photovoltaic (pv) permit, in order: Electrical / Final Inspection. Schedule each through City of St. Johns City Hall — Planning and Zoning (Building Official designated under City Code) ((928) 337-4517 (City Hall main line); Fax (928) 337-2195).

Apply through City of St. Johns City Hall — Planning and Zoning (Building Official designated under City Code) at 70 E Commercial St (PO Box 455), St. Johns, AZ 85936. Phone: (928) 337-4517 (City Hall main line); Fax (928) 337-2195, email: Not publicly listed for Planning and Zoning / building permitting as of 2026-07-19; the City's website (stjohnsaz.gov) does not publish a department-specific email for this function. Contact via (928) 337-4517.. Office hours: Not published on the City's official website as of 2026-07-19 — confirm directly with City Hall at (928) 337-4517.. Official information: https://www.stjohnsaz.gov/.

City of St. Johns, Arizona has adopted: City Code § 3-2-8 (Building Official) provides that 'The City Manager may designate or employ one or more officers and/or employees of the City of St. Johns to act as the Building Official... to implement the provisions of the City of St. Johns Building Code and/or Uniform Code For The Abatement Of Dangerous Buildings' — confirming the City enforces its own locally-adopted Building Code, but the compiled City Code text (2014 codification, Rev. 2014.1, amended through 1-13-21) does not reprint that code's specific edition/year. The City Code's own ordinance-amendment index lists a '2003 Building Code adoption' entry (p. 121 of the printed code) as the most recent building-code-adoption ordinance identifiable in the compiled document; the underlying ordinance text itself was not retrievable in the compiled City Code docx obtained for this record.; The City's Zoning Ordinance (PZ-Code-1.pdf, 'Final Revised Zoning Ordinance of the City of St. Johns') references 'Uniform Building Code' (UBC) standards in at least two places (factory-built/modular building construction; pressure-treated wood post standards) — UBC is the code family the International Building Code (IBC) nationally superseded by the mid-2000s. This may be a stale cross-reference rather than confirmation that UBC (rather than a current IBC edition) is presently enforced.; The City's Rates, Charges and Fees Schedule (approved through 10/11/2023) ties commercial building permit fees to 'the most recent Building Valuation Data as published semiannually by the International Code Council,' which confirms the City currently operates within the ICC/International Code family for fee-calculation purposes, even though no specific IBC/IRC/IECC/IMC/IPC/NEC edition year is stated anywhere in the City Code, Zoning Ordinance, or Fee Schedule as retrieved.; No dedicated 'Codes Adopted' or 'Current Codes' page (of the kind some Arizona municipalities publish) exists on the City's current official website (stjohnsaz.gov) as of 2026-07-19 — confirmed by reviewing the site's full sitemap and department navigation, which lists no Building/Development Services department at all (see tipsAndGotchas).. Local amendments apply — see the City of St. Johns overview page for the full list.

Sources & verification

Verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-07-20.

Fee schedules

Codes & ordinances

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