Utah County Community Development, Building Division

Building Permit

A business building, remodeling, changing use, or doing electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing work in unincorporated Utah County needs a building permit from the Building Division. The fee schedule's Exhibit A, effective April 3, 2012 and carried forward into the October 6, 2021 fee-schedule update, prices most work by a per-square-foot multiplier that varies by occupancy type — for example $1.50 a square foot for an assembly, business or institutional use, down to $0.30 a square foot for a shell-only building or a remodel — and prices a separate list of flat-rate activities such as demolition, fences over 6 feet, signs and grading at $101, $303 or $505 depending on the activity. A new building also pays a $300 submittal fee, and inspections carry a distance surcharge that rises from $10 within 10 miles of the Building Division office to $110 beyond 40 miles. Violations range from a $200 penalty for removing a posted violation notice to a $500 or 30%-of-permit-fee compliance deposit. These figures are published in the Utah County Government Fee Schedule adopted October 6, 2021; the county's current Building Division page now points to the same recodified fee-schedule platform described in the business-license record above, which returns an Unauthorized Access response to direct requests for its content, so Exhibit A's 2021-published figures remain the ones cited here.