Fire Sprinkler / Fire Alarm Permit in Calhan, Colorado

Calhan requires a fire sprinkler / fire alarm permit for: Fire alarm and fire suppression (sprinkler) installation or modification must be performed by a PPRBD-licensed Fire Alarm Contractor and/or Fire Suppression Contractor; The contractor must obtain a permit from 'the Fire Authority' (the jurisdiction's fire-code enforcement agency) for the fire alarm/suppression work itself, per PPRBD's own contractor-license materials; A separate rough-in permit must also be obtained from PPRBD (the Building Department) for the same work; For Calhan specifically, the identity of the governing Fire Authority is not named in PPRBD's own official Fire Authority contacts table (07/01/26 revision) — confirm directly with the Calhan Fire Protection District (719-347-3057) and/or PPRBD (719-327-2880) before applying; As part of any PPRBD commercial plan submittal (new construction, TI, or change of occupancy) touching this scope, the Code Study Form requires disclosure of sprinkler status and any fire-area/fire-wall data, routed to fire-authority review in parallel with other plan-review disciplines. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) at 719-347-2586 before starting work.

In Calhan, the published PPRBD Fire Alarm/Suppression Contractor License (annual) is: $10.00 annual license/certification fee, plus a non-refundable $50.00 application/processing fee at initial application. Additional published fees: Fire Authority Permit Fee (Calhan-specific amount not published) — Not confirmed — no Calhan-specific fire sprinkler/alarm permit fee schedule was locatable on the Calhan Fire Protection District's own site or in PPRBD's official Fire Authority contacts table; PPRBD Rough-In Permit Fee — Not itemized as a standalone line anywhere in PPRBD's current official Fee Schedule — no sprinkler- or alarm-specific row appears in any of its fee tables. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Calhan does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) at 719-347-2586 for current turnaround.

You'll need: PPRBD Fire Alarm Contractor License / Fire Suppression Contractor License; Fire Authority Permit (issuing agency unconfirmed for Calhan); PPRBD Rough-In Permit. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Calhan requires 2 inspection(s) for a fire sprinkler / fire alarm permit, in order: Fire Authority Inspection, PPRBD Rough-In Inspection. Schedule each through Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) (719-347-2586).

Apply through Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) at 556 Colorado Avenue, P.O. Box 236, Calhan, CO 80808-0236. Phone: 719-347-2586, email: townclerk@calhan.co. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM MT. Fax: 719-347-2581. The Town Clerk (Cindy Tompkins) handles day-to-day building permit issuance and business licensing; the Public Works Department (created under Calhan Municipal Code 6.01.010) holds oversight of the building permit and inspection program under the Public Works Director.. Official information: https://www.calhan.co/services/building_code_permits.php.

Calhan, Colorado has adopted: Pikes Peak Regional Building Code (PPRBC), 2023 Edition, 2nd Printing, as amended, together with Appendix A and Appendix B, as published by Pikes Peak Regional Building Department, 2880 International Circle, Colorado Springs, CO 80910 — adopted by reference as the Town of Calhan Building Code under Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 6.01.020, 'and all secondary codes duly described or referenced therein.' This is the CURRENT governing code, adopted via an emergency ordinance whose text (Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 6.01, Section 16 'Emergency Clause') states the provisions 'must be effective prior to July 1, 2026 in order to limit the excessively burdensome energy code requirements that will increase the costs of development in the Town' — i.e. Calhan deliberately moved off standalone 2018-cycle ICC codes and onto the PPRBC bundle (which itself packages current-cycle IBC/IRC/IMC/IPC/IFGC/IECC/NEC secondary codes) specifically to get ahead of the statewide HB22-1362 energy-code floor before it tightened further on 7/1/2026.; Building Code Amendments (Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 6.01.040): RBC112 (Dangerous Buildings) is deleted in its entirety; RBC312 (Enumeration Code) is deleted in its entirety.; Permits, permit fees, and inspections are governed by Sections RBC105, RBC108, and RBC109 of the (PPRBC) Building Code per Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 15.08.020.K.1, as repealed and reenacted by the same emergency ordinance.; SUPERSEDED (repealed in their entirety by the same ordinance, Sections 6-14, but historically the town's prior locally-adopted 2018-cycle code suite, still referenced on the town's own website/permit-program page as of the last verification): International Building Code 2018 (former Calhan Municipal Code Article 5); International Mechanical Code 2018 (former Article 6); International Fire Code 2018 (former Article 7 — Article 7/Fire Code was NOT listed among the repealed articles in the ordinance's Sections 6-14 and its current status is unresolved, see tipsAndGotchas); National Electrical Code 2020 (former Article 8, repealed); International Plumbing Code 2018 (former Article 9, repealed); International Energy Conservation Code 2018 (former Article 10, repealed); International Residential Code 2018 (former Article 11, repealed) — this article's amendment schedule included Calhan's own local Climatic/Geographic Design Criteria table (30 psf ground snow load, 115 mph wind speed no topo effects, Seismic Design Category B, Severe weathering, 30-inch frost depth, slight-to-moderate termite, winter design temp 1F, ice barrier underlayment required, air freezing index 1,000, mean annual temp 45F) and several plumbing/mechanical/fuel-gas amendments (18-inch minimum burial for plastic gas/fuel piping, 20 psig/20-minute test parameters, 12-inch trap-arm and cleanout-related amendments); International Fuel Gas Code 2018 (former Article 12, repealed); International Existing Building Code 2018 (former Article 13, repealed). NOTE: the Town's own public-facing building_code_permits.php webpage still describes the adopted code as plain 'International Building Code 2018' as of the last verification — this is stale relative to the actual codified ordinance text, which governs. Direct code citation (RBC-prefixed sections) confirms the current PPRBC adoption is authoritative.; Fire Protection Impact Fee (Calhan Municipal Code Article 14, NOT repealed by the above ordinance — remains standing): imposed under CRS 29-20-104.5 authority (as amended by HB16-1088) on new development served by the Calhan Fire Protection District. This is a development impact fee collected at building-permit application, not itself a building-permit type.. Local amendments apply — see the Calhan overview page for the full list.

This is not fully confirmed. PPRBD's contractor-licensing materials describe a dual-track process — a permit from 'the Fire Authority' plus a separate rough-in permit from PPRBD — but PPRBD's own official Fire Authority contacts table (current as of the 07/01/26 revision) does not name Calhan Fire Protection District or any other Calhan-specific fire authority, even though the same packet lists Calhan under its separate zoning contacts. Confirm directly with the Calhan Fire Protection District (719-347-3057) or PPRBD (719-327-2880) before applying.