Willamette Valley
Polk County, Oregon Building Department and Permits
Polk County, Oregon building department and permit records in one place. See the issuing agency, the search portal, and what the record can miss.
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 Do not cite it for current code editions.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
The record is half the picture
A permit search shows what was filed, not what was built. The gap between the two is what a general home inspection exists to find.
Anyone inspecting in Polk County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.
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