Iron County, UT Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Exhibition fee
- $50 per 24-hour period
- Carnival/circus fee
- $300 per day
- Ride fee
- $25 for the first week
- Insurance required
- $1M per occurrence minimum
- Property damage coverage
- $250,000 minimum
Summary
Anyone staging an exhibition, carnival, circus or paid performance in unincorporated Iron County pays a license fee, fifty dollars per twenty-four-hour exhibition or three hundred dollars per day for a carnival or circus, and cannot get the license until liability insurance of at least one million dollars per occurrence is in place.
A.Individuals or groups putting on any type of exhibition, carnival or performance, or such other activity for which an admission fee is charged, shall pay a license fee as follows:1.Exhibitions and Performances. For exhibitions and performances, the license fee shall be fifty dollars for each twenty-four-hour period during which such performance or exhibition is presented.2.Carnival, Circus or Parts Thereof.a.The license fee for any type of carnival or circus shall be three hundred dollars for each days performance. ... B.A license pursuant to this section shall not be issued until arrangements are made to conduct such activity on property, and until liability insurance acceptable to the county accordance with AM Best Rating is provided in the sum of one million dollars per occurrence, five hundred thousand dollars per person, and two hundred fifty thousand for property damage, which shows on its face the condition to protect and indemnify the county against any loss or liability arising from such activity.
Full Breakdown
Iron County Code § 5.08.050(A) sets a fifty-dollar license fee for each twenty-four-hour period an exhibition or performance charging admission is presented, and a three-hundred-dollar fee for each day of a carnival or circus performance. Subsection (B) bars issuance of the license until the promoter has arranged use of the property and provided liability insurance acceptable to the county, in the amount of one million dollars per occurrence, five hundred thousand dollars per person, and two hundred fifty thousand dollars for property damage, with the policy required to show it indemnifies the county against loss or liability from the activity.
A related fee for operating mechanical or animal rides at such an event, twenty-five dollars for the first week under subsection (A)(2)(b), then reverts to the standard fee schedule in Section 5.04.070 for continued operation. Applicants who are not specifically licensed under Chapter 5.08 otherwise fall back on the general business license structure of Section 5.04.070, which is twenty-five dollars per year plus twenty-five dollars per additional employee, capped at four hundred dollars.
Violations & Fines
Presenting a carnival, exhibition, circus or admission-charging performance in the county without paying the required license fee, or without the liability insurance required by Section 5.08.050(B), is an unlicensed-business violation subject to the general misdemeanor penalty in Section 5.04.150: a fine up to one thousand dollars, imprisonment up to six months, or both, with each day of operation a separate offense.
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