West Jordan

City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division

In short

City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division issues 3 permits we publish for West Jordan, last verified 2026-09-09. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Permit	Issuing agency	Fee	Renews	Last checked
General Business License	City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division	A single flat 'Business' category, expressly captioned 'not to exceed $2,000' on the fee schedule: a $163/year base fee plus $8/year per employee (capped in total at $2,000), plus a separate one-time, nonrefundable $55 application fee. This is the only category that applies to nine of the ten industries covered here — the fee schedule's other named Business Licensing categories (Home Occupation, Alcohol Licensing, Pawn Shops, Rental Dwelling Units, Solicitor, Sexually Oriented Business, Vending Machine, and Vendor License) do not match a restaurant, retailer, contractor, childcare centre, salon, fitness studio, veterinary clinic or ordinary auto-repair shop; a food truck is the one exception, recorded separately below.	annual — a 'license year' runs twelve consecutive calendar months from the date of commencement (not a calendar year), per Municipal Code § 4-1B-17; expires no later than 120 days after continuous closure of the business per § 4-1B-30	2026-09-09
Business License Fee Exemption for Non-Resident Building Contractorsonly if it applies to you	City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division	A building contractor with no retail product sales and no actual business location within West Jordan city limits is exempt from the business-license fee entirely (though must still apply for and hold the license). A contractor who operates a construction business from a home located within the city is expressly carved out of this exemption and owes the full base license fee ($163/year plus $8/year per employee) like any other business. No separate West Jordan contractor exam, registration card, or bond beyond proof of an active Utah DOPL contractor license was found.	not applicable — this is a fee exemption on the General Business License, not a separate license	2026-09-09
Vendor License — Food Truck	City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division	Food Truck: $178/year, plus a separate Food Truck Secondary Permit at $21. This is distinct from the fee schedule's own 'Large Vendor' ($249) and 'Small Vendor' ($182) categories, which read as covering non-food mobile vendors rather than food trucks specifically.	annual — same 12-consecutive-month license year as the General Business License	2026-09-09

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

General Business License

Mandatory for any person engaging in business within city limits (Ord. 23-25, § 4-1B-1). Zoning, Building & Safety and Fire Department sign-off are all required before a license issues, per the city's own Commercial Business License checklist. A building contractor with no retail sales and no actual business location in the city is exempt from paying this fee (though must still apply) under § 4-1B-19.A — see the separate contractor record below for the full condition. Insurance companies paying state license fees and nonprofit/charitable organizations are also fee-exempt under the same section. The city's own checklist still lists a $53 application fee, which is stale — the current fee schedule's $55 figure is used here.

Business License Fee Exemption for Non-Resident Building Contractors

Read directly from the city's own signed ordinance (Ord. 23-25). A contractor should confirm with Business Licensing (801-569-5010) whether a given job site or arrangement qualifies as having 'no actual business location within city limits' before assuming the exemption applies.

Vendor License — Food Truck

This is the city's own license to operate the vehicle as a business. It is required on top of both the Salt Lake County Health Department's separate Mobile Food Service Permit (food-safety side, recorded below) and the West Jordan Fire Department's own Food Truck / Mobile Food Vendor inspection fee (recorded below) — a West Jordan food truck operator faces three separate fee-bearing touchpoints across three different agencies.

Contact

Jurisdiction: West Jordan
Phone: (801) 569-5010
Website: westjordan.utah.gov/business-licensing/

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

Consolidated Fee Schedule, effective through June 30, 2027, updated June 23, 2026 by Resolution 26-021 — Business Licensing, Building Permits, Fire Department, Fire Inspections, and Planning and Engineering fee tablesCity of West Jordan · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09
Ordinance No. 23-25 — An Ordinance Amending the 2009 West Jordan City Code, City Code Sections 4-1A-1 through 4-1D-5 Inclusive (General Business Regulations and Licensing Requirements), signed and effective August 9, 2023City of West Jordan · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09

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