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In Gilliam County, the task decides which office to use
County Planning handles land use, Boardman administers building-code permits, the County Clerk records documents, and Circuit and Justice Court matters follow their own routes.
The ordinary rule is stable, but a current record, boundary, rate, deadline, or personal fact can change the result. Last reviewed against the listed sources August 4, 2026.
Use Gilliam County Planning for land use and the City of Boardman for building permits. Use the County Clerk for records; court cases have their own routes. Planning gives zoning information and reviews partitions, zoning permits, and conditional-use permits.
Planning does not issue structural, mechanical, electrical, or plumbing permits. The City of Boardman handles those permits for Gilliam County and its incorporated cities. The Clerk handles elections, marriage licenses, survey filings, deeds, mortgages, and other records. The Clerk is not part of the Oregon State Circuit Court system. Start state-court matters with Gilliam County Circuit Court. Justice Court takes traffic, game, landlord-tenant, small-claims, misdemeanor, and other violation cases.
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Use Gilliam County Planning for zoning and land-use actions, the City of Boardman route for building-code permits, the County Clerk for recorded documents and marriage licenses, Circuit Court for state-circuit-court matters, and Justice Court for the case types the county assigns there.
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Last reviewed against the listed sources: August 4, 2026.
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