Washington County, UT: Commercial Filming on Public Right-of-Way (2026)

Section 3-3-2 defines SPECIAL EVENT as any gathering of seventy-five (75) or more individuals, including participants, registrants, organizers, spectators, staff, contractors, volunteers, or officials, for a fixed duration not exceeding fourteen consecutive days, and it names filming events directly in the list of covered activities alongside athletic events, endurance events, cultural events, entertainment, carnivals, circuses, concerts, live shows, dances, revivals, rodeos, race events, flea markets, outdoor sales events, craft fairs, parades, and farmers' markets. Because filming events sit inside that same umbrella, a production crew triggers the identical section 3-3-3 permit requirement, the section 3-3-5 application and fee schedule, and the section 3-3-6 conditions (potable water, sanitation, fire protection, traffic control) that apply to a concert or a marathon.

A film shoot that reaches 200 or more people, uses county property, or occupies SR-18 between mile marker ten and thirty-nine is automatically classified a major event regardless of its commercial purpose. The county's stated intent in section 3-3-1 is to mitigate impacts on county services and public safety, not to regulate speech content, so the overlap exists to manage logistics like road use and crowd size rather than film subject matter.