Goodyear, AZ Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

R. 60, subpart AAA, as certified by the manufacturer, a nationally recognized testing agency, or the Maricopa County Air Pollution Control Officer (§ 9-2-3(A)). Section 9-2-3(B), however, lists installations the article does not regulate and does not prohibit: furnaces, boilers, incinerators, kilns and similar space-heating or industrial equipment; cookstoves, barbecue grills and similar appliances designed primarily for cooking; and firepits, barbecue grills and other outdoor fireplaces. That exclusion means a backyard smoker, gas or charcoal grill, or wood-burning firepit used for cooking or outdoor gathering falls entirely outside Goodyear's solid-fuel emissions rule, so it does not need an EPA-certified burn chamber, a gas log insert, or Air Pollution Control Officer sign-off the way an indoor wood-burning fireplace would.

Section 9-2-5 does still require that any construction, installation or alteration of a regulated fireplace, woodstove or fuel-burning appliance comply with the Building Code and obtain the permits and inspections the Building Code requires, but that permit requirement is tied to the regulated devices in § 9-2-3(A), not to the cooking appliances excluded under § 9-2-3(B).