Projects that require a Mammoth Lakes Fire Protection District plan review include: assembly occupancies (including restaurants and other gathering places for 50 or more occupants); educational occupancies (including commercial daycare facilities); hazardous occupancies (including repair garages, body shops, fuel storage, and emergency generator installation); storage occupancies where potential exists for high-piled storage as defined by Fire Code; institutional occupancies; high-rise buildings; residential occupancies, such as hotels, motels, lodging houses, residential care facilities, apartment houses, small-and large-family day care homes, certified family-care homes, out-of-home placement facilities, halfway house, drug and/or alcohol rehabilitation facilities (R-1, R-2, R-2.1, R-3.1, R-4); tents, awnings, or other fabric enclosures used in connection with any occupancy; fire alarm systems; fire suppression systems; solar (PV) installation; generator installation; propane tank installation (site plan must be submitted); kitchen hood suppression systems; tenant improvements, remodels and additions; cell tower antenna installation, repair and/or modification.

Construction and/or installation work cannot begin until plans have been approved by the Mammoth Lakes Fire Protection District and the Town of Mammoth Lakes Building Division. All approved plans and permits shall be maintained on the project site. Permits are valid for one year after the date of issuance. If, after one year, there has been no work done on the project, the permit becomes invalid.