Willamette Valley
Polk County
Polk County, Oregon: which agency issues building permits, where the records live, and wildfire code adoption status.
Wildfire code, section R327
No adoption record found checked 2026-08-06
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Permit authority
- authority
- Polk County Community Development, Building Division
- trades
- Building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical and manufactured dwelling setup. POLK DOES ITS OWN ELECTRICAL.
- electrical authority for
- unincorporated county, Dallas, Falls City, Independence
- self administering cities
- Dallas, Independence, Monmouth, Willamina which straddles the Polk/Yamhill line, Salem
- lbdd corroboration
- State directory lists "Polk County", building official Kayla Bizon, phone 503-623-9237.
Contact
- address
- 850 Main Street, Dallas OR 97338
- phone
- 503-623-9237
- [email protected]
- building official
- Kayla Bizon
Permit search
- system
- Oregon ePermitting only, the state shared tenant
- account
- No
- address searchable
- Yes
- date range
- NOT PUBLISHED. No county page and no BCD page states a coverage start date. Phone 503-623-9237.
- planning gap
- Planning is NOT in ePermitting. Land use case files must come from the Planning Division directly.
Design criteria
- county publishes
- NONE.
- stale warning
- The Polk County residential permits page still references the 2008 ORSC and April 2011 radon and CO rules. Do not cite it for current code editions.
THE SALEM QUESTION
- status
- RESOLVED 2026-08-06
- answer
- The CITY OF SALEM issues residential building permits for the Polk County portion of Salem. Polk County does not.
Lbdd directory
- bcd administered
- No
- jurisdictions serving this county
- Dallas, Independence, Monmouth, Polk County, Salem
- jurisdiction count
- 5