Iron County, UT Ordinances (2026)

In unincorporated Iron County, alcohol is banned in every county park and recreation area unless the Iron County Commission has issued a permit first. The rule sits inside the county's…

Lighting a cigarette anywhere in an Iron County park or recreation area is banned unless you're standing in a spot the supervisory authority has specifically marked for smoking…

A property in unincorporated Iron County where parties occur twice or more per month can be declared a "party house" nuisance under Section 8.20.030(P), triggering the same abatement…

Anyone building a new driveway, access, or utility line onto a county right-of-way in unincorporated Iron County must get a permit from the county engineer first. Iron County Code…

When excavation work blocks a sidewalk anywhere in unincorporated Iron County, the permit holder doing the digging must put in a temporary sidewalk that is safe and convenient to use…

County parks in unincorporated Iron County are only open during hours the county commission or each park's supervisory authority sets, and Iron County Code Section 12.14.030(A) bars…

Planning a parade, service, celebration, or public speech in an Iron County park takes written permission first. Section 12.14.030(Y) of the Iron County Code bars anyone from carrying…

Anyone staging an exhibition, carnival, circus or paid performance in unincorporated Iron County pays a license fee, fifty dollars per twenty-four-hour exhibition or three hundred…

Iron County Code Section 8.16.020 requires a county license before anyone organizes, promotes, or sells tickets to a gathering of 1,000 or more people that continues 18 or more…

In unincorporated Iron County, running a stereo, speaker, or amplifier loud enough to disturb a neighbor's peace is a nuisance under County Code Section 8.20.060(B). Operating any…

In a residential zone in unincorporated Iron County, running construction work loud enough to be heard 20 feet away between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. is prima facie evidence of a noise…

Unincorporated Iron County has no single posted curfew clock; instead, County Code Section 8.20.060(A) bars any loud, unnecessary, or offensive noise, at any hour, that could…

Residential landscaping equipment gets a carve-out from Iron County's noise nuisance rules: Code Section 8.20.060(E)(8) exempts lawnmowers, leaf blowers, edgers, hedge trimmers, and…

Iron County Code Section 8.20.060(D)(4) and (D)(5) target vehicle noise directly: an engine brake running audibly 20 feet away between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., or any vehicle operated with…

Animal noise, including barking dogs, is a declared nuisance in unincorporated Iron County when it violates the county's general noise standard: any sound that would disturb a…

New buildings within the Cedar City regional airport's approach zone in unincorporated Iron County must achieve at least twenty-five decibels of sound attenuation if they hold offices…

Iron County has no general residential noise ordinance with numeric decibel limits; the code's only zone-and-time-based dBA standard governs utility-scale solar power plants under…

Iron County's noise ordinance singles out felt vibration, not just audible sound: under Code Section 8.20.060(D)(2), any amplifier or stereo operated so a reasonable person feels the…

In unincorporated Iron County, letting rubbish, junk or rank weeds accumulate on any lot, vacant or built, is declared a nuisance under Iron County Code Chapter 8.20. The Board of…

Unincorporated Iron County treats a dangerous or substandard building as a public nuisance. Iron County Code § 8.20.030(D) lists any structure whose condition may endanger health…

Nuisance and code complaints in unincorporated Iron County go to the enforcement officer designated under County Code Section 8.20.090: the zoning officer, building inspector, sheriff…

Residents of unincorporated Iron County can report property nuisances such as visible construction equipment storage or windblown trash and debris under Section 8.20.030(S)-(T); the…

Unincorporated Iron County has adopted the International Urban Wildland Interface Code as its wildfire-zone standard, per County Code Section 8.24.010, folding in the state amendments…

Iron County Code § 8.04.100 bans open burning in the unincorporated county during the closed fire season, June 1 through October 31 and November 16 through the end of February, without…

Iron County Code § 8.04.070 makes it unlawful in the unincorporated county to let empty boxes, waste or other inflammable material pile up on a property, or to run a business, in a way…

Iron County Code § 8.04.102(C) lets residents build a recreational campfire without a burning permit if it sits in a pit at least eighteen inches deep or a noncombustible ring at least…

Iron County Code Section 8.04.110 prohibits using fireworks in the unincorporated areas of the county. The Iron County sheriff's office enforces the ban by citation or referral to the…

Every short-term rental in unincorporated Iron County must have an operable smoke detector in each bedroom, in the major living areas, and on each floor under Iron County Code §…

In unincorporated Iron County, keeping a property in a condition that provides harborage for rats, mice, snakes or other vermin is a declared nuisance under Section 8.20.030(C)…

Iron County Code Section 8.20.040 bans leaving a partially dismantled, wrecked, junked or abandoned vehicle on any property for more than sixty days, and bans leaving one on a street…

Iron County Code § 17.36.150 bars storing commercial vehicles and construction equipment on any lot in an agricultural or residential zoning district in unincorporated Iron County…

Iron County Code § 17.36.230 limits how long an RV, boat, camping trailer or mobile home can be lived in on a residential lot (16 days temporary, 180 days seasonal) and requires it be…

Iron County taxes businesses through an annual license fee rather than a separate business tax: a general fee applies to most businesses under the base schedule, while Chapter 5.08…

Iron County Code Section 8.20.050 makes violating the Utah Noxious Weed Act a county nuisance, enforced by the county weed control board rather than by a locally set height figure; it…

In unincorporated Iron County, the building inspector must examine every building permit application and either approve or reject it, and county officers have a standing right of entry…

In unincorporated Iron County, a home operating as an expanded home occupation can host state-licensed child care for up to sixteen children under Iron County Code § 17.36.280(B). The…

Every short-term rental in unincorporated Iron County with gas appliances must have an operable carbon monoxide detector on each floor under Iron County Code § 17.36.290(G)(1)(b)(iii)…

Iron County makes it unlawful to construct, alter, repair, remove, or demolish any building or structure in the unincorporated area without first filing a written application with the…

Iron County adopts the National Electrical Code by reference for every electrical installation in the unincorporated county under Section 15.08.010(C)(2). Because the county…

Iron County adopts the International Plumbing Code by reference for every plumbing installation in the unincorporated county under Section 15.08.010(C)(3). As with the county's other…

Unincorporated Iron County levies a transient room tax of four and one-quarter percent on motor courts, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts and similar public accommodations, expressly…

Pawnbrokers in unincorporated Iron County must post a five-thousand-dollar surety bond, be at least twenty-one, a U.S. citizen and free of felony or moral-turpitude convictions in the…

Secondhand merchandise dealers in unincorporated Iron County pay the county's general business license fee and must make a reasonable investigation into the origin of everything they…

Iron County Code Section 17.36.280(J) excludes automotive repair, body work, painting, towing operations and vehicle sales or rentals from the list of businesses allowed as an expanded…

A mobile restaurant or roadside food stand operating in unincorporated Iron County cannot get or renew a county business license until it has been inspected and issued a food service…

In unincorporated Iron County, peddlers and mobile vendors, including food sellers who go place to place, cannot set up displays outside their vehicle on public streets or sidewalks…

Iron County Code § 5.08.120(D) keeps peddlers, including mobile food vendors, away from schools and parks in the unincorporated county. Selling is barred within one block of a school…

Peddlers, solicitors and other itinerant merchants operating in unincorporated Iron County must pay a one-hundred-dollar annual license fee plus thirty-five dollars per extra employee…

In unincorporated Iron County, accessory dwelling units are a permitted use in every residential zone but must follow Iron County Code Section 17.36.400's size, utility, and lot rules…

Iron County Code § 17.16.035 confines tiny homes to the travel trailer park use and caps them at five hundred square feet. A tiny home on wheels tops out at eight feet six inches wide…

Unincorporated Iron County requires the legal owner of record to live in one of the two dwellings whenever a property has an accessory dwelling unit. Section 17.36.400(B)(1)(b) makes…

Iron County bars renting an accessory dwelling unit for less than thirty consecutive days. Section 17.36.400(B)(2)(c) puts ADUs squarely off-limits as short-term rentals in the…

In unincorporated Iron County, a shed or other accessory building may rise to 35 feet as a multi-story structure under Iron County Code § 17.36.110, but it cannot sit in the required…

In unincorporated Iron County, adjoining landowners split a boundary fence's cost equally under Iron County Code § 6.04.030. The rule ties to the county's legal fence standard in §…

In unincorporated Iron County, Section 17.36.070 caps fences, walls and hedges at six feet in every zoning district, and Section 17.36.120 separately bars any obstruction over two feet…

Iron County does not set a maximum retaining wall height, but Section 15.06.030(D)(1) requires every retaining wall built in the unincorporated county to follow the recommendations of…

In unincorporated Iron County, letting a dog run at large without a responsible attendant is a misdemeanor under Iron County Code § 6.08.010. The Iron County Sheriff's Office can…

Iron County Code § 17.16.030 splits veterinary clinics into two uses based on outdoor holding facilities. A clinic without outdoor holding facilities is permitted outright in…

In unincorporated Iron County, a household may keep no more than two dogs and two cats over four months old, capped at four total animals under Iron County Code Section 17.36.240. The…

Iron County Code Section 17.36.240 excludes inherently or potentially dangerous animals, along with fowl and reptiles, from the definition of a household pet in unincorporated Iron…

In unincorporated residential districts R-5, R-2, R-1 and R-1/2, Iron County Code Section 17.36.250 permits keeping chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, horses, goats and other listed…

In unincorporated Iron County, the Performance Subdivision Option lets developers earn extra lots on R-1/2 zoned land by qualifying for density bonus points. Base density is two units…

Iron County requires solar power plant lighting in the unincorporated county to stay to the minimum necessary, and reviewers can order full cut-off, dark-sky-compliant fixtures under…

Iron County's Table of Site Development Standards requires outside and security lighting on Commercial (C)-zoned parcels in unincorporated Iron County to reflect downward and away from…

Rooftop and ground-mount photovoltaic or solar hot-water systems accessory to a home or business are a permitted use in all twelve of Iron County's zoning districts under Iron County…

Unincorporated Iron County keeps large-scale recycling out of residential and most agricultural land: a recycling processing facility needs a conditional use permit and only reaches…

In unincorporated Iron County, every habitable residence in County Service Area No. 1 owes a mandatory solid waste fee under Iron County Code Section 8.08.090. The charge accrues…

Iron County Code Section 8.08.160(F) makes it unlawful to haul garbage, refuse, rubbish, leaves, tree limbs, or other waste on any county road without the load properly and adequately…

Under Iron County Code Section 8.08.140(A)(2), condominium, apartment, and townhome complexes that existed by January 1, 1994 and were already on dumpster collection can elect to keep…

Iron County Code Section 8.08.070(B) makes it unlawful to dispose of garbage, refuse, animals, or debris anywhere in the unincorporated county except through the county's approved…

Iron County Code § 17.16.040 caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings and other impervious surfaces, ranging from five percent in the R-5 zone up to seventy-five percent in…

Iron County's Table of Site Development Standards at Section 17.16.040 sets minimum front, rear and side yard setbacks that fall as lots get smaller and denser, ranging from sixty feet…

In unincorporated Iron County, the Table of Site Development Standards caps primary dwelling height at 30 feet or two stories, one story minimum, in the R-5, R-2, R-1, R-1/2 and R4K…

Iron County adopted a dedicated data center chapter in 2025 setting minimum lot sizes, height and setback standards for data centers and data center power plants. A data center power…

Iron County caps data center and data center power plant noise at fifty-five dBA measured at the property line of a neighboring residential lot, fifty dBA at an existing neighboring…

Off-premises advertising signs facing an interstate highway in unincorporated Iron County must sit at least five hundred feet from any other off-premises sign, compared to only three…

Unincorporated Iron County bans off-premises advertising signs, the code's category for billboards, from moving, animating or making sound in any manner, and allows only indirect…

In unincorporated Iron County, outdoor grills and fireplaces used to prepare food are exempt from the county's fire-season burning restrictions. Iron County Code Section 8.04.102(B)…

Short-term rentals in unincorporated Iron County must keep noise inside between ten p.m. and ten a.m. under Iron County Code § 17.36.290(H)(2), which folds short-term rental noise into…

Every short-term rental in unincorporated Iron County must provide parking on the rental property itself under Iron County Code § 17.36.290(G)(1)(b)(v). Street parking directly in…

Three written violations of Iron County's short-term rental ordinance can cost an operator the rental's business license under Iron County Code § 17.36.290(I)(1). The zoning…

Anyone renting a home for less than thirty consecutive days in unincorporated Iron County must first get a short-term rental business license under Iron County Code § 17.36.290(E). The…

Short-term rentals in unincorporated Iron County pay a four and one-quarter percent transient room tax under Iron County Code § 3.12.050(A), which names short-term rentals as defined…

Iron County Code Section 17.36.280(I) caps traffic generated by an expanded home occupation at twenty average daily trips above what the dwelling itself produces, with a hard ceiling…

Iron County Code Section 17.36.280(B) lets an expanded home occupation include state-licensed child care for up to sixteen children, well above the six-child threshold that Section…

Iron County Code Section 17.36.280(H) limits an expanded home occupation to a single, non-illuminated identification sign no larger than two square feet. The sign condition is one of…

Unincorporated Iron County allows home occupations as a permitted accessory use in most zoning districts if the business stays inside the dwelling, produces no outside noise or light…

Before Iron County issues a building permit for a home or non-agricultural business in the A-20, RA-20 or I-A zoning districts, Section 17.30.070 requires the property owner to sign…

Iron County's Intensive Agricultural (I-A) zoning district, created under Section 17.30.010, is designed to preserve farmland and accommodate large-scale animal and crop operations in…

Iron County adopted the International Urban Wildland Interface Code under Section 8.24.010, and its zoning ordinance separately requires wind, solar, geothermal and data-center energy…

Iron County requires a development permit before any construction or development begins in an area of special flood hazard, under Section 15.12.110(A). The chapter applies to all areas…

Iron County has no freestanding stormwater ordinance; its drainage requirement lives inside the flood damage prevention chapter. Section 15.12.160(D)(3) requires every subdivision…

New or substantially improved residential structures in an Iron County flood hazard area must have the lowest floor, including any basement, elevated to or above the base flood…

Iron County Code § 17.36.135 caps how much of a new residential yard can be planted in lawn: no more than 50 percent of front and side landscaped area, none in the park strip, and lawn…

Every swimming pool and pool area in unincorporated Iron County must be completely enclosed by a fence or wall at least 6 feet tall under Iron County Code § 17.36.160. Openings in the…

Iron County requires a building permit before any residential swimming pool goes in the ground because Chapter 15.04 treats a pool as a structure like any other. The building inspector…