Iron County, UT Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

The acknowledgment agreement created by Section 17.30.070 is Iron County's right-to-farm protection: it runs with the land, must be filled out completely, signed with a notarized signature by the building permit applicant, and recorded with the Iron County recorder before the county will approve a building permit for human occupancy or a nonagriculture business in the A-20, RA-20 or I-A districts. Subsection B requires the owner to acknowledge that agriculture is 'a principle land use' of those districts and lists specific practices the owner is agreeing to accept, including pesticide spraying and crop dusting by air, field and ditch burning, machinery and well-pump operation at all hours, livestock feeding and feed storage, dairy operations, grazing, calving and lambing, fertilizing, composting, agricultural dust, nighttime operations, associated noise, flood irrigation and runoff that may flood adjacent property, strong agricultural odors, and greenhouses.

A copy of the recorded agreement must be submitted with the building permit application itself. Section 17.30.080 pairs this with a separate, voluntary odor-regulation program for large animal feeding operations that lets neighbors and operators use odor easements and best-management plans, but the recorded acknowledgment agreement is the mandatory step that puts new residents on formal notice before they move next to a working farm.