Disclaimer

PermitChime is not a government agency

PermitChime is an independent commercial service. It is not a government agency, not a permitting authority, and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any city, county, state, district, or other permitting authority listed on this site. Authority names are used only to identify whose public records are being monitored.

The issuing authority is the authoritative record

PermitChime reads publicly available permit information and presents it in a consistent format. The permitting authority remains the sole authoritative source for the status and contents of any permit record.

Every permit page in PermitChime links directly to the official source and states when PermitChime last successfully verified that record. Where our information and the authority's information disagree, the authority is correct.

Data may be delayed or incomplete

Several of the public sources we monitor publish on a fixed schedule — often once a day — rather than continuously. Others expose only part of a permit record. We state each jurisdiction's actual publication cadence and exactly which categories of data we can see on that jurisdiction's page and on each permit.

PermitChime may also be temporarily unable to reach a source. When that happens we show you the last state we genuinely verified, along with the time of that verification. We do not present stale information as current.

Because of this, PermitChime should not be relied on as the sole basis for a decision with legal, financial, or safety consequences. Verify anything consequential with the issuing authority before acting on it.

What PermitChime does not do

PermitChime does not:

• prepare, submit, or file permit applications
• pay permit fees or schedule inspections on your behalf
• provide legal, architectural, engineering, or code-compliance advice
• determine whether any work complies with any building code or regulation
• predict whether a permit will be approved, or when
• create deadlines, requirements, or obligations of any kind

Nothing in PermitChime is professional advice. Decisions about your project remain yours and your licensed professionals'.

AI-generated summaries

Where PermitChime offers an optional summary of long government text, it is labelled "AI-generated summary of the official source text" and the original source text is always shown alongside it. Summaries are a convenience for reading, not a substitute for the original, and may omit or misstate detail. Read the original before acting.

Change detection

PermitChime compares a normalized form of each permit record between checks and reports what differs. It is designed to avoid both missed changes and false alarms, but no monitoring system is perfect: a source may change in a way we do not recognize, or may present information in a way our connector misreads. When our system detects that a source looks broken, it preserves the last known good information and flags the problem rather than reporting a change that may not be real.

Public records and personal information

Permit records are public records published by government authorities and may contain personal information such as names and property addresses. PermitChime ingests only the fields needed to identify a permit and track its progress. PermitChime is not a people-search service and does not sell personal information. See our Privacy Policy.

This page describes how PermitChime works. It is not legal advice, and it has not been reviewed by counsel. If you are deploying PermitChime commercially, have a lawyer review this page, the Terms of Service, and the Privacy Policy for your jurisdiction and business.