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Can your builder pull your building permit?
The one-page form that lets your builder sign instead of you
Yes, your builder can pull the building permit for your Island Park cabin — the moment you sign the county’s Permission Verification form. Fremont County’s Planning & Building Department keeps a one-page form for exactly this situation; its full title is “Permission Verification for Constructing Improvements on Property”, and the copy on file as of October 2026 carries the revision line Revision 13 March 2026. Without that signature, the county expects the landowner’s own hand on the application. With it, your contractor files for you. If you are still mapping the whole permit path, the permit-path overview puts this form in its place in the sequence, and the class-system page explains which permit your cabin itself falls under.
What the form actually authorizes
The form is a single authorization sentence with blanks to fill. You, as owner, authorize a named contractor or builder “to apply for a Fremont County Building Permit to construct” the improvement you describe, on the property you identify by address or legal description. The blanks it asks you to complete:
- Who authorizes — your name or names, as owner;
- Who may apply — the contractor or builder, by name;
- What gets built — the improvement, described on the line itself;
- Where — the property’s address or legal description, and the city.
Read the middle of that authorization line carefully: what travels from you to the builder is the right to apply — to stand at the county counter as the applicant. That is all the form does. It does not sign your build contract, move your deposit, or promise anything about how the build itself is run; those live in the paperwork between you and your builder, not in this county file. What it does do is put the county’s paperwork in motion under a name the county can reach during the build.
The jointly-owned land question
Island Park cabin land is often shared land — inherited parcels, sibling groups, two names on an old deed. The form has a built-in question for exactly that, and it is worth reading slowly because it is phrased as a statement you confirm, not a box you skip:
“If property is jointly owned by several property owners, I/We have contacted the additional owners and all parties are aware of the construction to be completed on the property and agree. _________Yes ________ No”
— Fremont County Planning & Building, Permission Verification for Constructing Improvements on Property, form /2652, revision 13 March 2026. Retrieved 17 October 2026
Signing “Yes” says you have already talked to the other owners and they already agree. If that conversation has not happened, the honest answer on this form is “No” — and the honest move is to have the conversation before filing, not after. A permit application that outruns the co-owners tends to come back as a stalled file, and the county desk will ask exactly this question when the parcel record shows more than one name.
Two signature lines, and a date
Below the authorization the form carries two signature lines, each labeled “Owner,” then a date line. Read the layout as instructions:
- Two Owner lines — the minimum the form expects when land has a couple or two partners on it; both sign.
- More owners than lines — do not squeeze; ask Planning & Building whether they want an additional copy signed by the rest, so the file shows every owner’s consent the same way the joint-ownership statement promises it.
- The date — the day you actually sign; it becomes part of the county’s file from then on.
The form is short by design; the county is trusting the signatures, not the paragraph count.
Where it goes
The completed form travels with the permit application to the county desk that issued it — Fremont County Planning & Building, 125 North Bridge St., St. Anthony, Idaho 83445, (208) 624-4643. It is not a stand-alone errand; it exists to ride along with the Class I application your cabin needs, and its usefulness ends when that application is filed. One timing note before you sign anything: the building permit has its own shelf life once issued, and the permit-validity page explains that clock — worth reading before the signature date on this form becomes the first tick of your build schedule.
Before your builder files: five moves
- Confirm every name on the deed — the parcel record, not memory, decides whether the joint-ownership question applies to you.
- Have the conversation with co-owners first, so the Yes/No line is answered truthfully and once.
- Fill the authorization blanks completely — builder’s name, the improvement, the address or legal description — before either of you signs.
- Both owners sign where the form provides lines; more owners than lines, ask the county desk how they want the rest shown.
- Send it with the application to Planning & Building, 125 North Bridge St., St. Anthony, (208) 624-4643 — or call that number first with any question about how they want it filled in.
The form is small, but it is the hinge the whole application swings on when the builder carries the paperwork. Sign it deliberately, keep a copy with your build records, and date it the day you actually sign — that date is part of the county’s file from then on.
Common questions
Can my builder pull the building permit without me?
Not without your signature. Fremont County requires either the landowner's signature on the application or the county's Permission Verification form signed by the owner, authorizing the builder to apply. The form on file is revision 13 March 2026.
What is the Permission Verification form?
A one-page Fremont County Planning & Building form titled 'Permission Verification for Constructing Improvements on Property.' You fill in your name, the contractor's name, the improvement, and the property's address or legal description, then sign. It authorizes the builder to apply for a Fremont County Building Permit on your property.
Our lot has three owners. Do all of us have to sign?
The form has a joint-ownership statement you confirm — that you have contacted the additional owners and all parties are aware and agree — plus two Owner signature lines. With more owners than lines, ask Planning & Building at (208) 624-4643 how they want the remaining signatures shown rather than squeezing them in.
Does signing this form make my builder responsible for the build?
No. The form authorizes one thing: applying for the permit. Contract terms, deposits, warranties, and responsibility for the work itself live in your agreement with the builder, not in this county document.
Where does the completed form go?
To Fremont County Planning & Building, 125 North Bridge St., St. Anthony, Idaho 83445, (208) 624-4643 — filed together with the permit application it authorizes. It is not a stand-alone filing.
Does the Permission Verification form cost anything?
This page prints no fee figures; permit costs are a separate question with its own schedule. Ask Planning & Building at (208) 624-4643 for the current figures when you file.