Securing your occupancy permit – after construction

Most contractors nowadays leave the occupancy permit to the owner because of the hassle involved in the processing. The occupancy permit is almost like when you’re processing your building permit, but actually takes less time and is actually easier to process.

Because most contractors leave the occupancy permit processing to the project owner, more often than not, it is left unprocessed – especially when the owner learns that no one from the government really goes to your door to ask for it when you start to occupy your new house. However, if you’re building a commercial structure, your tenants will need this occupancy permit when they process their business permit. Thus it is mandatory if your project is a commercial building.

Here’s the usual items needed in the processing of the occupancy permit, but this is for Talisay City only. Other cities might have more steps especially the bigger cities, and rural areas might have less steps:

Legworks done: In a span of 2 weeks (Man hours and gas p10,500)

• Secure forms and instructions
• Secure seals and signatures of:
  — Civil Engineer
  — Master plumber
  — Master Electrician
• Notarize forms
• Process new tax dec
• Request for site inspection schedule
• Site inspection
  — Zoning team, Fire team, Assessor team, OBO team
• Claim zoning clearance
• Claim new tax dec
• OBO and Assessor fees computation
• Fire clearance fees computation

Costs:

• Occupancy Seals and signatures for the civil, master plumber, and master electrician at p5k each – p15,000.00
• Leg works – man hours and gas – 10,500.00
• Taxi transport for the inspectors – 300.00
• new tax dec – 80.00
• zoning site inspection fee – 100.00
• Assessor site inspection fee – 100.00
• OBO fees – 3,600.00
• Fire fee – 1,598.00
• Tax assessor fee – 10,850.00