Emmett Township

St. Clair County, Michigan

Last verified September 17, 2026

Emmett Township is a jurisdiction in St. Clair County, Michigan, which does not currently list an online permit database — contact the department directly by phone or email. Use the contact information below to reach the local building department, or the mailing address if the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.

Contact

Phone
(810) 650-1714
Department Site
Emmett Township Building Department (opens in a new tab)

Source: emmetttownship-stclair.org (opens in a new tab)

Permit Search

No online permit database on file — contact the department directly by phone or email.

Certificate Holder Mailing Address

Emmett Township
11100 Dunningan Rd
Emmett, MI 48022

Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.

Additional Notes

Emmett Township (St. Clair County) administers its own building permits (Building, Electrical, Mechanical, and Plumbing permit applications; all permits require a letter of intent) via its official site emmetttownship-stclair.org; Building Inspector line (810) 650-1714, per the township's own fee-schedule PDF hosted on that domain. The township's site could not be directly loaded during this research session (connection refused on repeated attempts), so phone/permit-page details are drawn from PDFs and pages on the township's own domain as surfaced via search rather than a direct live fetch. The mailing address (11100 Dunningan Rd, Emmett, MI 48022) and a general clerk line (810-384-8070) come from a secondary search-result summary and are a hedge, not independently confirmed by direct page fetch. Do not confuse with the separate Village of Emmett (also St. Clair County) or Emmett Charter Township (Calhoun County), both separate entries in this batch.

What You Need Before Applying for a Permit

Most building departments ask for the same core package before they'll issue a permit: a completed application naming the property owner and contractor, the contractor's state license number and proof of insurance (general liability, and workers' comp if employees are on the job), a notice of commencement or equivalent recorded filing for larger jobs where the state requires one, and scaled plans or a site plan for anything beyond minor repairs. Roofing, fence, pool, and solar permits typically have their own simplified checklists — Emmett Township's department (above) can confirm exactly what applies to your project.

Why this matters for insurance: permit history is one of the first things an underwriter or adjuster checks. Unpermitted work — a finished basement, an added bedroom, a rebuilt roof — can complicate a claim or even void coverage for that portion of the loss, and it routinely surfaces during a home inspection. Pulling the right permit up front, and keeping the closed-permit record on file, protects both the property's value and its insurability at resale.

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