Effective January 1, 2025 a Street Cut Permit Fee is in effect in accordance with the amended Street Cut Ordinance No. 2006-595. The online Street Cut Permit System has been updated in accordance with the new Ordinance. If you are utilizing a steel plate as a temporary surface, you are required to obtain a Steel Plate Permit. Upon submitting your Street Cut Permit application, you will be automatically diverted to the steel plate application.  
           
  Schedule of Permit Application Fees*        

 

          

 

 Permit Application Fee:        
 

Excavation by Tunneling, Jacking and Boring only      
(Pavement on the City’s ROW is not disturbed)
$165.54
    
           
 

All other Methods of Excavations                               
(Pavement on the City’s ROW is cut or altered)
$231.76
    

 
 

* Administrative Fee                          
$33.10
    

 
 

Street Cut Permit Extension                          
$33.10
    
           
 

Steel Plate Temporary Surface

$66.21
    

 

          
 

Data Entry Fee:
No Longer Applicable          
   

 

          

 

 * ALL FEES/CHARGES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE        
 

 

 * On December 15, 2010 City Council passed Ordinance Number 2010-1016 which amended the City of Houston Code of Ordinances by adding “Sec. 1-14 Administrative Fee”. Section 1-14 requires an administrative fee to be collected at the time of application for any license, permit or service for which the fee is greater than $50.00. This includes all renewals regardless of whether or not an application is filed.  
 
  For Further Information Contact        

 

 Street Cut Section at (832) 394-9578 or e-mail StreetCutOps@houstontx.gov