Essex County Departments Directory

• Bids / RFPs / Purchasing (please contact Purchasing at 518-873-3332 to be placed on the bidders list)
  • Vendor Self Service – VSS
  • Public Bids List
• Board of Elections
• Board of Supervisors
  • Agendas and the information law
  • Minutes, Signup for email notifications
  • Resolutions
  • Local Laws
  • Calendars
  • Contact info
  • Committee list
  • Budgets
  • Clerk of the Board
• Community Resources
  • Planning
  • Essex County General Reference Map
• Contact info / telephones
  • 2023 Directory
  • Department telephones
  • Employee telephones
  • Ethics Committee contact information
  • Contact Webmaster
• County Auditor
• County Clerk
  • Click here for the Essex County Clerk Online Records
  • Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
  • Passports
  • Pistol permits
  • Guide for locating land-related information
• County legal holiday schedule (2023) and Court legal holiday schedule and Terms (2023)
• County sales tax
• County Sheriff
  • Report a crime online
• County Treasurer
  • Essex County Room Occupancy Tax Law
  • Room Occupancy Tax Registration Form
  • Room Occupancy Tax Return Form
• Department of Public Works (County Highway)
• Department of Social Services (All departments and HEAP)
• District Attorney
• Emergency Services
  • Essex County Pre-Disaster Multijurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (please contact Wendy Sayward at 518-873-3903 or Wendy.Sayward@essexcountyny.gov with any comments or questions)
    • Appendix 7: Brochures Download Page
  • Facebook
• Employment / Civil Service exams
• Fairgrounds
• Fish Hatchery
• FOIL Requests
• Forms
• Health Department and Facebook
• HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program)
• Law Library
• Mental Health Services
• Essex County Suicide Prevention Coalition
• Office for the Aging and Facebook
• Personnel / Civil Service, CSEA Contract 2022-2023
• Planning
• Public safety / road closures
• Purchasing Department
• Real Property Tax Services
  • ImageMate (public)
  • ImageMate (subscribers)
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Property tax queries
  • Download property tax data
  • FEMA flood map queries
  • Guide for locating land-related information
• Site policy
• Social Services (All departments and HEAP)
• Stop DWI
• Timesheets
• Traffic safety
• Transportation / bus schedules. Please note that the Essex County ride share website has been discontinued. To find out more about public transportation in Essex County, please visit the Transportation website, call 800-914-9266, or email transportation@essexcountyny.gov.
• Youth Bureau
• Youth Bureau Programs

Keep your money in Essex County, renew locally

Are you hit every January with a large tax bill? What is the best way to help decrease taxes?
Increase revenue.

For every dollar you spend at Essex County DMV (in Elizabethtown or Ticonderoga) 12.7¢ stays in the County (sales tax not included). It may not sound like a great deal, but it adds up. When your driver’s license or registration comes due, consider sending your renewal locally to:

Essex County DMV
PO Box 247
Elizabethtown, NY 12932

When you visit either Elizabethtown or Ticonderoga, enjoy the town, eat, shop, and take advantage of your local DMV. If you go online and renew no money comes back to Essex County! If you send your registration by mail to Utica, no money comes back to Essex County! If you go to another county’s DMV, no money comes back to Essex County!

Crossing the border into Canada or Mexico requires either a US Passport or a NYS Enhanced Driver’s License (EDL). Please consider applying for your passport at the Essex County Clerk’s Office located at 7559 Court Street in Elizabethtown, or for a NYS Enhanced Driver’s License at the Essex County DMV located at 7559 Court Street in Elizabethtown, or 132 Montcalm Street Suite 3 in Ticonderoga. Did you know that the passport execution fee ($25) stays in Essex County? If you apply for or renew your passport at the post office or another county clerk’s office that fee does not come back to Essex County. If you apply for or renew your EDL at another county’s DMV, that money does not come back to Essex County.

Thank you for renewing Essex County by renewing locally.