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Printing a permit or placard

An issued permit has three printouts: the permit the applicant keeps, the placard posted on site, and the receipt for payment.

Where to find them​

  • At the counter, a permit issued on the spot opens its permit, placard and receipt in new tabs when you choose Issue and print. The page that follows also has Permit, Placard and Receipt buttons, in case your browser blocks the new tabs.
  • On any issued permit, Print permit and Print placard are in the side panel of the record. They open as PDF files in a new tab.
  • A receipt opens from its Receipt link under Payments recorded.

Print permit and Print placard appear only while the application is Issued. A permit that closes at the moment it is issued, as some types do, is kept as a copy under the record's Documents, titled Permit followed by its number.

What is on them​

The permit has the town's letterhead, the permit number and type, the parcel and site address, the owner, the contractor with the license number for trade permits, the issue and expiry dates, the state building code edition where it applies, any conditions, and the fee status. It ends with the signer your administrator has set up, for example the building official.

The placard is a short sign: the permit type in capitals, the number, the site address, the contractor, the dates, and the line asking that it be posted where it can be seen from the street until the final inspection.

Wording, letterhead and signers come from templates your administrator keeps under Settings. The demo's printouts use the Town of Alder Pond's.

The permit is also saved to the record when it is issued, where the people on the project can see it. A permit you print later is drawn again from the current record, so it shows the fee status at the time you print it, for example a balance still owed.

Correct a permit​

If the contractor, the license number, an answer or the project title is wrong on an issued permit, open Correct this permit in the side panel.

  1. Change what is wrong. The form shows the application's answers, and Contractor lets you keep the current one, choose another party on the project, or Add a contractor.
  2. Enter the Reason for the correction. It is kept in the permit's history.
  3. Read the lines under the form. Chiban says whether the change affects the fee, and who will be notified. If nobody on the permit has an account, nobody is notified.
  4. Choose Save and reissue as revision and the next revision number, and confirm.

The permit keeps its number. The earlier copy stays on file marked as superseded, and the corrected permit and placard show the revision.

A change to the permit type, the parcel or anything that would change the review is not a correction. For those the applicant files an amended application naming the permit. The dialog links to the counter for permit types that are issued there.

Inspectors and finance staff do not see this control.

Renew a permit​

Under More actions on an issued permit, Renew the permit asks for the Renewed on date. The renewal fee is added to the fees and the new due date appears under Clocks. From intake to issued permit places this in the life of a permit.