Iron County, UT Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Iron County Code § 17.36.290(I) is the enforcement backbone of the county's Short-Term Rentals Ordinance, adopted by Ordinance No. 2019-1 on March 25, 2019. Subsection (I)(1) makes three written violations of any provision of § 17.36.290 by an occupant, owner, or operator grounds for modification, suspension, or revocation of the short-term rental business license and any affiliated licenses or permits, applying the penalty framework in Section 5.04.150, Violation-Penalty, of the county code. Before a violation issues, the zoning administrator or designee and the county clerk or designee must work together to give the operator and owner thirty days' written notice and an opportunity to show cause why a written violation should not be issued; the zoning administrator then gives written notice of the violation itself, which the code allows to be served by certified mail (§ 17.36.290(I)(1)(a)-(b)).

The county can also issue a written violation directly under Chapter 8.20, Nuisance, Chapter 5.04, Business Regulations Generally, or Chapter 3.12, Transient Room Tax, for violations of those chapters, also served by certified mail (§ 17.36.290(I)(2)). A sustained violation is independently a public nuisance under Chapter 8.20 (§ 17.36.290(I)(3)). Any person aggrieved by an enforcement decision can appeal to the county commission by filing a written request with the zoning administrator within thirty days of learning of the decision (§ 17.36.290(J)(1)).