Taylorsville, UT Building Safety: Building Permits (2026)

Taylorsville does not print its own numeric permit trigger; instead section 15.08.010 adopts the edition of the International Building Code currently in force in Utah as the city's construction standard for building construction, alteration, remodeling, and repair, so the IBC's own permit table controls when work needs a permit. The city backs that adoption with a direct enforcement tool: section 15.08.040 makes it unlawful for any utility company to connect or maintain service to a structure, or to any equipment or wiring, when a permit is required for that work until the building official grants approval, and the building official may order a utility disconnected wherever the use is unauthorized or violates the building, zoning, or other city ordinances.

Contractors and homeowners who pulled permits before January 1, 2002 are not caught by later code changes: section 15.08.050 governs those older permits under whatever code edition applied on the date the permit issued, so a project started under an earlier IBC cycle finishes under that cycle's rules rather than the current one. Community Development, which houses the building official, reviews and issues permits and coordinates with the utility companies serving Taylorsville to withhold hookups until that approval is on file. Because the ordinance ties utility service directly to permit approval rather than listing project-by-project thresholds, the practical effect in Taylorsville is that any structure, equipment, or wiring the adopted IBC classifies as requiring a permit cannot receive utility service until the building official signs off.