Palm Beach County has 39 incorporated municipalities. The county’s Code Compliance Division, part of Planning, Zoning & Building on North Jog Road, covers unincorporated Palm Beach County, and the county Permit Center processes building permits only for the unincorporated area. Everywhere else, the city holds the file. Boca Raton calls its office Code Enforcement, Palm Beach Gardens runs code compliance through Neighborhood Services, and Wellington has its own village Code Compliance office.
Before you order searches or answer a buyer’s questions about permits, confirm whether the parcel is inside a city or in the unincorporated county. The city in a mailing address is a postal name, and it may not be the government that holds the file.