In town here you pay the city $23 for a 200amp residential service, at city hall, the city keeps $1 and the other $22 goes to the state. The state pays the inspector his salary. Our inspector inspects M-W-Th for the local city utility in town. And in our county you pay $22 to the Membership co-op and make the check out to the state of Tennessee and he will inspect on T-F for them. I have three different inspectors for three different counties. They all inspect for DREMC, but they have different offices in each county. The city has a plumbing inspector, a fire inspector, a framing and or general building code inspector, but all electrical is under the state of tennessee. Each utility dictates its own service requirements as for as riser size, SE conductors sizes, ect, and they all differ somewhat.
Large commercial, industrial service are figure on the amperage and complexity of the inspection required. The last large one I worked on 1200amp 480v $800 flat rate fee for all inspections.
