The Wallowa Mountains rising above dry foothills in eastern Oregon
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Eastern Oregon

Harney County

Harney 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

The county residential permit PDF exempts reroofing from permits EXCEPT in wildfire hazard zones as provided in section 325. The county does recognise wildfire hazard zones in permit exemptions, citing the older Section 325 rather than current R327.

Verified fields
Permit authority
authority
Harney County, all four disciplines
lbdd corroboration
State directory lists "Harney County", building official Rick Stauffer, phone 541-573-8195.
Confirmed from the county own residential permit PDF, which has four distinct sections covering structural, electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits, all county-administered. The hypothesis that Harney is partly state-served is DISPROVEN.
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Contact
lbdd record
Harney County, building official Rick Stauffer, phone 541-573-8195, 111 W Washington St. Burns, OR 97720.
Harney County Planning Department, 450 N Buena Vista, Burns OR 97720, 541-573-6655. This comes from a verified county PDF that is demonstrably STALE, citing the CABO 1995 code and the defunct cbx.state.or.us.
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Lbdd directory
bcd administered
No
jurisdictions serving this county
Harney County
jurisdiction count
1
This county runs its own building department, listed under its own name with no BCD suffix.
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