Eagle Mountain, UT Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

EMMC 17.65.060(M) singles out day care providers, preschools, hair salons, and any other home business the fire chief determines presents elevated health and safety concerns for mandatory fire inspection. A day care cannot simply operate out of any room in the house: the business must be conducted in areas of the home where the building department has already issued a permit and performed the building inspections for that space.

The same subsection requires all home businesses, including in-home day cares, to comply with the standards of the International Building Code or the International Residential Code, plus any additional requirements the chief building official or fire chief impose to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. EMMC 17.65.090 layers on day-care-specific rules: an applicant for an in-home day care must provide evidence of any mandatory state license before the city will approve the home business license, and if the day care is proposed for a unit without typical ground-level access, such as an upper floor of a condominium, it must meet all ingress and egress standards set by the International Fire Code. The license official treats a day care or preschool as any other home business for approval purposes, so it must also satisfy the general standards in EMMC 17.65.060, including the floor-area, employee, and outdoor-activity limits.