Village of Deckerville
Sanilac County, Michigan
Last verified September 17, 2026
Village of Deckerville is a jurisdiction in Sanilac County, Michigan, with an online portal for searching and pulling active or historical building permits. 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
Certificate Holder Mailing Address
Sanilac County Department of Construction & Land Use60 W. Sanilac, Courthouse Annex Room 210
Sandusky, MI 48471
Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Additional Notes
Village Hall itself (2521 Black River, PO Box 275, Deckerville, MI 48427; phone 810-376-9505; Zoning Administrator Tracy Hoff) handles zoning/planning locally, but building permits for the village are issued by Sanilac County's Department of Construction & Land Use, phone 810-648-4664 (confirmed via official county/city-hosted permit documents), rather than by the village itself. This delegation to the county is treated as the standard countywide arrangement per Sanilac County's own site; village-specific delegation language was not found verbatim, so this is flagged as a reasonably confident but not 100% village-specific-worded confirmation.
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 — Village of Deckerville'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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- City of Brown City
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- Village of Carsonville
- City of Croswell
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- Elk Township
- Elmer Township
- Evergreen Township
- Flynn Township
- Forester Township
- Village of Forestville
- Fremont Township
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