Building Safety in Utah (2026)

Pre-1978 homes in Sandy are subject to federal EPA Renovation, Repair, and Painting rule requiring lead-safe work…

South Jordan has no local lead-paint ordinance, but federal law requires landlords of pre-1978 housing to disclose…

Anyone erecting scaffold or staging on a Provo public way, such as a sidewalk or street, to work on a building must…

Salt Lake City requires a City Engineer permit before erecting any scaffold, fence, or temporary structure over a…

West Valley City strengthens the adopted International Fire Code by deleting exceptions that would let R-1, R-2, R-4…

City Code section 10-3-1 requires an automatic fire sprinkler system in new homes built under the International…

Layton requires automatic residential fire sprinklers under Section 501.5 of its adopted 2024 International Fire Code…

Under the Fit Premises Ordinance, Salt Lake City landlords must promptly repair an inoperable required fire sprinkler…

St. George's Rental Fit Premises Ordinance gives landlords 24 hours to fix an inoperable required fire sprinkler system…

Unincorporated Utah County requires automatic fire sprinkler systems in every dwelling built, added onto, or…

Weber County does not impose a blanket residential sprinkler mandate. Inside the county's Wildland Urban Interface…

Sandy's fire code amendment requires automatic sprinklers only in buildings where required fire flow exceeds 2,000…

A Child Day Care Center in Provo needs a Conditional Use Permit and must meet Section 14.34.250(7)(b)'s building…

Weber County classifies a day care (child) center serving more than 50 students as a critical facility, the same tier…

Eagle Mountain requires fire inspections for in-home day care providers and preschools under EMMC 17.65.060(M), and the…

Layton requires every licensed home day care to meet building-safety standards under LMC § 19.06.045, including two…

A commercial daycare in a Lehi residential zone must look like an ordinary house and cannot exceed 16 children at a…

Orem allows commercial child and adult day care facilities only in the C1, C2, and HS zones, and every operator must…

Sandy City doesn't write its own fire-safety code for day cares and preschools; Section 20-2-1 instead adopts the Utah…

Unincorporated Utah County caps commercial day care center operating hours between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. under UCLUO…

West Valley City locally adopts the 2006 NFPA Life Safety Code and applies it specifically to day care centers and…

Salt Lake City's Fit Premises Ordinance makes a broken exterior door or an inoperable or missing exterior door lock a…

Every West Valley City rental owner must 'provide adequate locks to exterior doors and furnish keys to tenants as…

Layton's home day care standards address two door-hardware failure points under LMC § 19.06.045: closet latches must…

Salt Lake City forces existing residential buildings to meet energy-efficiency upgrades, insulation, double-pane…

West Jordan's answer to a green building code is section 10-1-8, which adopts the entire 2015 International Energy…

Salt Lake City requires carbon monoxide detectors in dwelling units under the International Residential Code it adopts…

Sandy requires every short-term rental dwelling to maintain at least one working carbon monoxide detector on each…

Washington County's short-term rental licensing ordinance requires proof that carbon monoxide detectors, smoke…

Weber County requires every licensed short-term rental to have working carbon monoxide detectors installed and…

West Valley City's local amendment to the 2024 International Fire Code, Municipal Code Section 16-6-103(13), requires a…

Unincorporated Davis County requires a building permit for the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration or…

Eagle Mountain requires a building permit for construction governed by the state-adopted International Building and…

Layton bars any construction from starting before the City issues a permit, unless the work is specifically exempted…

Lehi requires a valid building permit before any construction, removal, or alteration of a structure begins. The…

Before Orem's Building Safety Division will issue a building permit, every fee has to be paid and every required bond…

Provo requires a building permit from the Building Inspection Division before any building or structure is constructed…

Salt Lake City requires a building permit before erecting, altering, or enlarging any structure - including decks and…

Construction in unincorporated Salt Lake County runs on the International Building Code and International Residential…

Under Sandy City Code Section 21-2-3, no building or structure may be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied…

South Jordan requires a permit from the building official for any work the adopted construction codes cover; performing…

St. George requires a permit before erecting, constructing, altering or reconstructing any business, commercial or…

Utah County Code § 8.18.010 adopts the Utah State Construction Code as the building standard for unincorporated Utah…

No building permit can be issued in unincorporated Washington County unless the project meets the building codes…

Weber County requires a permit before erecting, enlarging, altering, repairing, moving or demolishing any building or…

West Jordan requires compliance with the entire 2015 International Building Code, adopted wholesale by city ordinance…

West Valley City lets an attached patio cover encroach into the required Rear Yard setback, coming as close as 5 feet…

Unincorporated Davis County enforces electrical work through the 1999 edition of the National Electrical Code, adopted…

Eagle Mountain requires a written application and advance fee before any electrical distribution wiring is installed…

Layton adopts the 2023 National Electrical Code by reference and bars any electrical construction or installation until…

Lehi has adopted the 2017 National Electrical Code as its electrical standard under City Code section 10-2-1(H), with…

Provo enforces electrical work through the state-mandated National Electrical Code, adopted as part of the State…

Salt Lake City requires a permit before any electrical installation, alteration, or improvement, and has adopted the…

The unincorporated county has adopted the National Electrical Code by reference, and electrical work generally needs…

Sandy City Code § 18-1-1 adopts the National Electrical Code, alongside the International Building, Mechanical…

South Jordan adopts the state-adopted National Electrical Code as its electrical code and requires a permit for covered…

St. George requires a permit and fee for any electrical work performed in the city, under the adopted National…

Washington County adopts the National Electrical Code, as amended by the State of Utah, as part of its Building Code…

West Jordan requires electrical work to follow the entire 2014 National Electrical Code, adopted under section 10-1-6…

West Valley City adopts the entire 2023 National Electrical Code by reference under § 16-5-101, controlling every…

Unincorporated Davis County enforces plumbing work through the 1997 edition of the International Plumbing Code, adopted…

Eagle Mountain requires a sewer connection permit before plumbing work proceeds: EMMC 13.20.300 conditions the permit…

Layton bars any plumbing work until a permit is issued under Municipal Code Section 15.02.010, and it enforces the 2024…

Lehi enforces the 2018 International Plumbing Code as its plumbing standard under City Code section 10-2-1(F), with the…

Orem City Code 7-1-1 adopts the Utah State Construction Code, defined in Utah Code 15A-2-103 and 15A-2-104, as the…

Provo enforces plumbing work through the state-adopted Uniform Plumbing Code, per City Code 9.52.010, with one local…

Salt Lake City adopts the International Plumbing Code as promulgated by the state, requiring a permit and inspection…

Sandy City Code Section 18-1-1 adopts the International Plumbing Code, along with the Building, Mechanical, Fuel Gas…

South Jordan adopts the state-adopted plumbing code as part of its construction codes and requires a permit for covered…

St. George adopts the state-amended International Plumbing Code citywide and requires a permit before any plumbing…

Washington County adopts the International Plumbing Code, as amended by the State of Utah, under County Code section…

Weber County requires a permit from the county plumbing inspector before plumbing tied to a public sewer connection can…

West Jordan requires all plumbing work, from installation to repair, replacement, and relocation, to follow the entire…

West Valley City adopts the 2024 International Plumbing Code in full under § 16-4-101, covering permits for any…

Eagle Mountain subjects every improvement installed in a subdivision, from trench compaction to street surfacing, to…

Layton requires permit holders to call the Building Official for every test or inspection before covering work. A…

The building official inspects every permitted job and must sign off before you get a certificate of occupancy.

South Jordan requires written building-official approval at each successive construction stage before work can advance…

St. George bars occupancy of any new, altered, or relocated building until the chief building official's office…

The Washington County building inspector can inspect any building or structure under construction, modification, moving…

Weber County charges set fees for each building inspection stage under Code § 12-3-8: $115 to re-inspect failed work…

West Jordan requires builders who need a city inspection outside normal hours, Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30…

West Valley City's Building Inspection Division won't grant power-to-panel clearance on a project until all four-way…

Utah County Code § 8.18.080 gives anyone seeking a single-family residential building permit the right to request…