Portable Toilet Permits Around Nashville, TN

Which towns on this list set their own permits?

Brentwood, Goodlettsville, Hendersonville, Belle Meade and Pegram each set their own permits and street rules.

Each one has its own municipal government. A permit from Metro does not carry over to a spot in any of them, and a permit from one town does not cover a spot in another.

Which counties are these towns in?

Brentwood is in Williamson County, Goodlettsville and Hendersonville are in Sumner County, Pegram is in Cheatham County, and Belle Meade is a separate city inside the Metro boundary.

The county sets some of the services a town uses, but each town's own permits are issued by the town. The county line does not answer the permit question on its own.

What should I ask each town's office?

Ask whether a permit is needed for portable toilets, how far ahead it must be filed, what the plan must show, and whether the town requires written consent for private ground.

Ask for the answers in writing and keep them with the rental file. A written answer is the safest record for the event or the job.

How should a multi-town job be filed?

A job that works in two or more towns is filed with each town's office for its own part, and the crew's trips between them are planned with each town's hauler permit in mind.

The organizer should send each office the plan for its share and ask the office to confirm in writing. A single filing for Metro does not cover a town's streets.

Keep one file for the job with a section for each town, so the site can show which permit covered which part when a question comes up.

How do you keep track of several offices at once?

A single sheet listing each job, its town or county office, the permit reference and the date it was granted, kept in the rental file and updated when a permit changes.

A sheet of that kind makes it clear which office holds the answer to each question, and it stops a permit from one town being assumed to cover another.

Where a town's rule changes, the sheet is updated and the provider is told before the next booking in that town.

Who checks the spot when two offices are close?

The provider checks the parcel for the spot, and the site lead confirms the boundary with the office for the town it believes governs the spot. Where the two disagree, the spot is moved.

A boundary street can look like one jurisdiction on a map and be another in the county's records. The parcel record is the reference for the decision.

Moving the unit a few metres to the side of the line is often enough to settle the question without a long dispute.