West Jordan, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)

6 wholesale in section 4-2T-1, so what counts as a 'retail tobacco specialty business' in West Jordan, generally a store where tobacco, e-cigarette, or nicotine product sales, floor space, or shelf space cross the thresholds set in state law, or that holds itself out as such a store, tracks the state statute directly. Section 4-2T-2 makes operating one without both a general city business license and the specialty license unlawful. Section 4-2T-3's proximity rule measures in a straight line from the business's nearest entrance to the nearest property boundary of any community location, competing tobacco specialty business, or agricultural or residential use, without regard to intervening structures or zoning district lines, and it bars a new license within 1,000 feet of a community location or within 600 feet of either another retail tobacco specialty business or agriculturally or residentially zoned property.

Section 4-2T-3(C) additionally conditions the license on the applicant already holding the required local health department permit under Title 26B, chapter 7, part 5 of the Utah Code, plus a State Tax Commission license under section 59-14-201 or 59-14-301 for tobacco products, or section 59-14-803 for electronic cigarette or nicotine products. 6(7). The article was adopted by Ordinance 13-14 in March 2013 and rewritten by Ordinance 26-23 on April 14, 2026, to match the current state statute.