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Fire Sprinkler / Fire Suppression System Permit in Taylor, Arizona

The Town of Taylor adopts the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition, by reference at Taylor Town Code (TTC) Sec. 15.05.010(H), and Sec. 15.05.020 makes no amendment to the IFC. Fire suppression system work is permitted and inspected by the Town's own Building/Zoning Department at Taylor Town Hall rather than by a separate fire district: the Town Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025 carries a 'Fire Supression System Inspection' line of $500.00 under Building, Other Fees. Fire and EMS service is provided by the Taylor-Snowflake Fire & Medical Department (TSFMD), a unified department staffing full-time 24/7 fire and EMS crews out of stations in Taylor and Snowflake and serving roughly 11,146 people across Snowflake, Taylor, Shumway and areas east of Snowflake. TSFMD is not an independent fire district that issues its own construction permits: its public site offers a burn permit and a public-education fire safety program, and publishes no construction or operational fire permits, no plan review process and no fee schedule. The Town publishes no standalone fire permit application form and no fire alarm fee line.

Reviewed 2026-07-07 · Source

When you need this permit

  • TTC Sec. 15.05.010(H) adopts the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition, by reference; TTC Sec. 15.05.020 lists amendments only to the 2015 International Building Code, the 2015 International Residential Code and the 2014 National Electric Code, and makes no amendment to the adopted IFC
  • Fire suppression system work is submitted to the Town of Taylor Building Department at Taylor Town Hall, 425 Papermill Road (P.O. Box 158), Taylor, AZ 85939, on the Town's Building Permit Application; call 928-536-7366
  • Residential sprinklers are governed by state statute, not the model code: TTC Sec. 15.05.020 amends IBC Section 903.2.8 to insert 'AZ Revised Statute 9-807 shall apply to residential sprinkler requirements' and deletes IRC Section R313 in its entirety with the same A.R.S. Sec. 9-807 cross-reference
  • For a change of occupancy, the Town's own Change of Occupancy handout instructs applicants to first check with the planning department and the fire department to find out whether the building will meet fire department requirements
  • A minimum of 24 hours' notice is required to request any Building Department inspection; call 928-536-7366
  • Burn permits are a separate TSFMD process, applied for through taylorsnowflakefire.com, and are not a construction permit

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Fee schedule

Fire Supression System Inspection (Town Fee Schedule, Building, Other Fees)Spelled 'Fire Supression System Inspection' in the source. Read from a 200 dpi rendered image of page 1 of the Town of Taylor Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025, in the Building > Other Fees block alongside Electrical-Mechanical-Plumbing $50.00, Green Tag $25.00, Re-Inspection $75.00 and Solar PV Systems $200.00. This is a TOWN fee charged through the Town's Building Department, not a fire district fee.
$500.00
Fire alarm / fire detection system permitCONFIRMED GAP. Evidence of absence, not a skipped chase: both pages of the Town of Taylor Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025 (tayloraz.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-Fee-Schedule.pdf) were rendered to 200 dpi images and read line by line rather than text-extracted. Page 1 Building section: Residential Permits (Homes 75% building code valuation regional modifier; Garage $0.20 per ft2; Portable Sheds, Containers & Carports $25.00; Fence over 6' high or retaining over 4' $25.00; Plan Review under 1500 ft2 $100.00; Plan Review over 1500 ft2 $200.00), Commercial/Industrial Permits (Buildings, Additions or Repairs at a 75% Building Code Valuation Regional Modifier; Plan Review 50% of building permit fee), Other Fees (Electrical-Mechanical-Plumbing $50.00; Fire Supression System Inspection $500.00; Green Tag $25.00; Re-Inspection $75.00; Solar PV Systems $200.00). Page 2 Planning & Zoning section: Zone Change $250.00, General Plan Amendment $250.00, Site Plan Review $250.00, Amendment to Previously Approved Site Plan $150.00, Conditional Use Permit $150.00, Variance $150.00, Temporary Use Permit 3-day $10.00 and Annual $50.00, Amendment to the Ordinance $250.00, Subdivision Review $100.00 charge per lot plus consultant review, Land Split $25.00. The only other fire-related content in the schedule is a page 2 'Fire Response (rates per hour)' block — Type 1 Engine $159.00, Water Tender $144.00, Brush/Support Unit $98.00, Command Unit $35.00, and personnel rates Chief Officer $56.00, Captain $32.00, Engineer $27.00, Firefighter/CEP $27.00, Firefighter/EMT $24.00 — which is emergency-response cost recovery, not permitting. No fire alarm or fire detection line exists anywhere in the schedule, and TSFMD publishes no fee schedule of its own. Contact the Building/Zoning Department at 928-536-7366.
No published Town fee

Review timeline

Plan review
Not published — contact the department

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Inspection process

  1. 1

    Fire suppression system inspection

    Charged at $500.00 as a distinct 'Fire Supression System Inspection' line under Building, Other Fees in the Town Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025. Building Department inspections require a minimum of 24 hours' notice; call 928-536-7366.

  2. 2

    Re-inspection

    $75.00 per the Town Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025 (Building, Other Fees).

See the full Taylor inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →

Tips

  • Taylor is NOT one of the Arizona towns that hands fire permitting to a fire district. The Town adopts the 2015 IFC itself, and the fire suppression inspection fee sits in the Town's Building section of the Town fee schedule. Taylor-Snowflake Fire & Medical Department is a unified Taylor/Snowflake municipal department, not an independent district, and it issues only burn permits.
  • There is no separate fire permit application in Taylor. Fire suppression work goes on the Town's general Building Permit Application through the Building/Zoning Department at Town Hall.
  • The $500.00 fire suppression system inspection fee is the only fire permitting figure the Town publishes. There is no fire alarm or fire detection fee line at all.
  • Do not read the Town's 'Fire Response (rates per hour)' table as permit pricing — those engine, tender and personnel hourly rates are emergency-response cost recovery.
  • Residential sprinklers follow A.R.S. Sec. 9-807, not the model code. Taylor deletes IRC Section R313 outright and rewrites IBC Section 903.2.8 to point at the statute.
  • Starting a change of occupancy? The Town's own handout tells you to check with the fire department before pursuing the permit, because a project the fire department will not accept is not worth permitting.

Frequently asked questions

Taylor requires a fire sprinkler / fire suppression system permit for: TTC Sec. 15.05.010(H) adopts the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition, by reference; TTC Sec. 15.05.020 lists amendments only to the 2015 International Building Code, the 2015 International Residential Code and the 2014 National Electric Code, and makes no amendment to the adopted IFC; Fire suppression system work is submitted to the Town of Taylor Building Department at Taylor Town Hall, 425 Papermill Road (P.O. Box 158), Taylor, AZ 85939, on the Town's Building Permit Application; call 928-536-7366; Residential sprinklers are governed by state statute, not the model code: TTC Sec. 15.05.020 amends IBC Section 903.2.8 to insert 'AZ Revised Statute 9-807 shall apply to residential sprinkler requirements' and deletes IRC Section R313 in its entirety with the same A.R.S. Sec. 9-807 cross-reference; For a change of occupancy, the Town's own Change of Occupancy handout instructs applicants to first check with the planning department and the fire department to find out whether the building will meet fire department requirements; A minimum of 24 hours' notice is required to request any Building Department inspection; call 928-536-7366; Burn permits are a separate TSFMD process, applied for through taylorsnowflakefire.com, and are not a construction permit. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Town of Taylor Building / Zoning Department (Development Services Department) at 928-536-7366 before starting work.

No fire alarm or fire detection fee is published anywhere. Both pages of the Town of Taylor Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025 were read in full; the only fire lines are the $500.00 Fire Supression System Inspection under Building, Other Fees and a Fire Response hourly cost-recovery table. Contact the Building/Zoning Department at 928-536-7366 before budgeting fire alarm work.

Taylor does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Taylor Building / Zoning Department (Development Services Department) at 928-536-7366 for current turnaround.

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

Taylor requires 2 inspection(s) for a fire sprinkler / fire suppression system permit, in order: Fire suppression system inspection, Re-inspection. Schedule each through Town of Taylor Building / Zoning Department (Development Services Department) (928-536-7366).

Apply through Town of Taylor Building / Zoning Department (Development Services Department) at Taylor Town Hall, 425 Papermill Road (P.O. Box 158), Taylor, AZ 85939. Phone: 928-536-7366, email: geri@tayloraz.gov. Office hours: Town Hall is currently open Monday - Thursday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (closed Fridays and all major holidays), per the Town's current live website. An older (2014) Town of Taylor 'Homeowner's Guide to Permits' handout lists Development Services Department hours as Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; the Town Hall-wide 4-day/10-hour schedule on the current tayloraz.gov site is treated as the more current figure for permit-counter purposes. The single Building Official/Zoning Administrator position (reporting directly to the Town Manager as part of the executive leadership team, per the Town's 2024 AZBO job posting) administers both building permits and zoning/planning for the Town.. Official information: https://www.tayloraz.gov/departments/building/.

The Town of Taylor's own Building/Zoning Department at Taylor Town Hall, 425 Papermill Road. The Town adopts the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition, at Taylor Town Code Sec. 15.05.010(H), and its Fee Schedule effective April 5, 2025 charges a $500.00 Fire Supression System Inspection under Building, Other Fees. Taylor-Snowflake Fire & Medical Department is a unified Taylor and Snowflake municipal department rather than an independent fire district, and publishes only a burn permit and a public-education fire safety program — no construction or operational fire permits, plan review or fee schedule.

Not by the model code. Taylor Town Code Sec. 15.05.020 deletes International Residential Code Section R313 in its entirety and amends International Building Code Section 903.2.8 to insert that 'AZ Revised Statute 9-807 shall apply to residential sprinkler requirements', so the Arizona statute on municipal authority over residential sprinklers governs instead of the model code's prescriptive trigger.

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