Taylorsville, UT Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)

Taylorsville City Code § 5.76.100, titled Consent To Enter, sets the terms under which the city inspects licensed rental dwelling units. Upon reasonable cause, the city or its authorized representative investigates reports of violations of Chapter 5.76's rental licensing provisions, and by submitting a rental dwelling license application, the owner gives irrevocable consent for the city and its representatives to enter the unit and inspect it to enforce the chapter. That consent is not unlimited: the city or its representative must give the property owner or the owner's representative a minimum of 24 hours' prior notice before the inspection, and that notice must be in writing and delivered by certified mail, not a phone call or a posted notice.

This inspection authority backs up the substantive landlord duties in § 5.76.080, which require working plumbing, smoke detectors, heating to at least 72 degrees Fahrenheit, secure windows, pest control, and off-street parking, among other conditions, and it ties into § 5.76.110, which clarifies that issuing a license or completing an inspection does not legalize an illegally created unit or recognize a nonconforming use. Because Chapter 5.76 does not set out a separate periodic or proactive inspection schedule, the city's inspection authority here is complaint- and cause-driven rather than a scheduled program, and enforcement of any violation found during an inspection proceeds under the general Title 5 licensing framework, including denial or nonrenewal of the license.