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Schedule a building inspection in California

Schedule a building inspection. Choose your county to find the office that handles this service.

In California, 46 county departments and 6 city governments publish 52 official links for this service. Reviewed requirements cover appointments (5) and deadlines (2). 49 counties have a page for it below.

Office titles differ by county. The list below maps this task to the relevant office role. Specific online links, fees and forms are shown only when they have supporting sources.

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County, California	Where to start	Service information
Alameda	Public Works Agency — Building Services Oakland — Planning & Building Department	Building inspection and permit information — Alameda County Start with the office website
Alpine	Community Development — Building Safety Division	Start with the office website
Amador	Building Department	Building inspection and permit information — Amador County
Butte	Development Services — Building Division	Building Inspections
Calaveras	Building Department	Building inspection and permit information — Calaveras County
Colusa	Community Development — Building Department	Inspection Information
Contra Costa	Conservation & Development — Building Permits	Building inspection schedule
Del Norte	Community Development — Building Inspection	Building inspection and permit information — Del Norte County
El Dorado	Planning & Building — Building Division	Start with the office website
Fresno	Public Works & Planning — Building & Safety Fresno — Building Permit Center	Building inspection and permit information — Fresno County Start with the office website
Glenn	Planning & Community Development Services	Building Inspection
Humboldt	Planning & Building — Building Inspection	Building inspection and permit information — Humboldt County
Imperial	Imperial County Planning & Development Services	Inspections
Inyo	Public Works — Building and Safety	Building inspection and permit information — Inyo County
Kern	Public Works — Building Inspection Bakersfield — Building Division	Building inspection and permit information — Kern County Start with the office website
Kings	Community Development Agency	Building inspection and permit information — Kings County
Lake	Community Development — Building Safety	Building inspection requests
Lassen	Planning & Building Services	Start with the office website
Los Angeles	Public Works — Building and Safety Los Angeles — Department of Building and Safety Long Beach — Building & Safety Bureau	Start with the office website Schedule inspections Building inspections and inspection area map
Madera	Community & Economic Development — Building Division	Start with the office website
Marin	Community Development Agency	Schedule a building inspection
Mariposa	Building Department	Start with the office website
Mendocino	Planning & Building Services	Building inspection scheduling information — Mendocino County
Merced	Community & Economic Development — Building & Safety	Start with the office website
Modoc	Building & Safety Department	Building inspection and permit information — Modoc County
Mono	Community Development — Building Division	Start with the office website
Monterey	Housing & Community Development — Building Services	Building Inspections
Napa	Planning, Building & Environmental Services	Building Inspection
Nevada	Building Department	Building inspection and permit information — Nevada County
Orange	OC Development Services Anaheim — Building Division	Building inspection and permit information — Orange County Start with the office website
Placer	Building Services Division	Inspections
Plumas	Building Department	Inspection Request
Riverside	Building and Safety Department	Inspections
Sacramento	Community Development — Building Permits & Inspection Sacramento — Building Division	Schedule an Inspection Building Inspections
San Benito	Resource Management Agency	Building inspection and permit information — San Benito County
San Bernardino	Land Use Services — Building & Safety	Inspections
San Diego	Planning & Development Services — Building Division San Diego — Development Services Department	Start with the office website Start with the office website
San Francisco	Department of Building Inspection	Building inspection and permit information — San Francisco County
San Joaquin	Community Development Department Stockton — Building & Life Safety Division	Start with the office website Building Inspections
San Luis Obispo	Department of Planning and Building	Building inspection and permit information — San Luis Obispo County
San Mateo	Planning & Building	Schedule an Inspection
Santa Barbara	Planning & Development Department	Building Inspection Process
Santa Clara	Department of Planning and Development San Jose — Building Division	Building inspection Inspections
Santa Cruz	Community Development & Infrastructure — Unified Permit Center	Building inspection and permit information — Santa Cruz County
Shasta	Resource Management — Building Division	Building inspection and permit information — Shasta County
Sierra	Planning Department — Building Division	Building inspection and permit information — Sierra County
Siskiyou	Building Division	Building Inspection Request
Solano	Resource Management — Building & Safety	Inspections
Sonoma	Permit Sonoma	Building inspection and permit information — Sonoma County
Stanislaus	Planning & Community Development — Building Permit Services	Building inspection and permit information — Stanislaus County
Sutter	Development Services — Building Division	Building inspection requests
Tehama	Building and Safety Department	Building inspection requests
Trinity	Community Development — Building Division	Building inspection requests
Tulare	Resource Management Agency — Permit Center	Start with the office website
Tuolumne	Community Development — Building Division	Building inspection requests
Ventura	Resource Management — Building and Safety	Inspections
Yolo	Community Services — Building Services	Inspections
Yuba	Community Development Services — Building Department	Inspections

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