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Hillsborough County open permit search and code violation lookup

Hillsborough's permit dashboard marks a permit "Expired" directly — no inference needed, unlike counties that only publish a status history. Code enforcement runs a separate case search that is thinner on detail.

The open permit search

The county's permit dashboard tracks every permit by folio and states its status in plain words: Issued, Expired, About to Expire, Complete, In Process. An Expired permit is one the county itself has flagged as lapsed without a final inspection — the strongest kind of finding. One quirk worth knowing if you search it yourself: the same permit can show up more than once as it moves through review, so a quick scan can look like duplicate permits when it's really one.

The code violation lookup

Hillsborough's code enforcement case layer lists open cases by parcel, but it's thinner than the permit side: it does not publish when a case opened or closed, only that one exists and its type. Useful as a flag, not a timeline.

What it misses

This covers unincorporated Hillsborough County. Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City run their own building departments, and their permits are not in the county's files. The free check below tells you which jurisdiction an address falls in before it reads anything.

What the $49 report adds

Every permit on file with its number, status and dates, merged so a permit moving through review isn't double-counted; every open code case the county lists — for one address, read live. A real example.