16 published records
Business licences and permits in West Jordan, Utah
West Jordan's own general Business Licence is mandatory (Municipal Code § 4-1B-1) and is priced on a single flat schedule — a $163/year base fee plus $8/year per employee, capped at $2,000, plus a one-time $55 application fee — with no per-industry schedule touching nine of this project's ten tracked industries (only a Food Truck vendor category is named). Food service, mobile-food, and salon/cosmetology premises licensing is delegated to the Salt Lake County Health Department, though West Jordan's own code (unlike West Valley City's) never names that department, and the city's own business-licence checklist still uses the 'Salt Lake Valley Health Department' name retired in 2013. West Jordan runs its own independent Fire Department, confirmed absent from the Unified Fire Authority's own list of member cities. Unlike Salt Lake City and West Valley City, West Jordan's own fee schedule DOES publish a Certificate of Occupancy fee ($290). The Fire Department's own Commercial Bi-Annual Business Inspection fee table contains an internal date contradiction — described in this file's header — that could not be resolved from the published document alone.
What are you opening in West Jordan?
- RestaurantsFull-service restaurants carry the densest permit load of any small business: food, fire, occupancy, waste, and usually alcohol.See the full permit list
- Coffee shopsCafés are permitted as food service establishments even where no cooking happens, and the plan review step catches most operators by surprise.See the full permit list
- Retail storesRetail is the lightest common permit load, but the sales tax permit and the certificate of occupancy are non-negotiable in every jurisdiction.See the full permit list
- Salons and barbersPersonal care is licensed at state board level as well as locally, so the shop licence and the practitioner licences are separate obligations.See the full permit list
- Food trucksMobile food is the one category with no certificate of occupancy — but it gains a commissary agreement, and the unit itself is inspected rather than the premises.See the full permit list
- Fitness studiosPrepaid memberships trigger state registration and often a surety bond, which catches operators who budgeted only for the fit-out.See the full permit list
- Childcare centresThe heaviest permit load of any small business: state agency licensing, per-person background checks, and a stricter fire standard than ordinary commercial use.See the full permit list
- Contractors and tradesLicensed at state board level rather than locally, and the only common category with no premises permits at all — the bond is usually the long pole.See the full permit list
- Auto repair shopsOrdinary commercial permitting plus an environmental layer: waste oil, solvents and stormwater are each registered separately.See the full permit list
- Veterinary clinicsA state facility permit, controlled substances registration at both state and federal level, and a medical waste manifest — none of which a general business licence covers.See the full permit list
Who issues business permits in West Jordan?
Permitting in West Jordan is split across 5 agencies we hold records for, with tax registration handled at state level. No single office issues everything, which is why an opening usually means filing in several places rather than one.
West Jordan issuing agencies
- Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau)Food establishment and mobile food permits · Cosmetology, body art and tanning facility permits · Child-care facility food-service inspections12 permits
- West Jordan Fire DepartmentBusiness fire and life-safety inspections · Hazardous materials permits · Mobile food vendor inspections5 permits
- City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing DivisionGeneral business licence · Home occupation licence · Vendor and food truck licences · Solicitor licence3 permits
- City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Building & Safety DivisionBuilding, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits · Certificates of occupancy2 permits
- City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Planning and Zoning DivisionZoning verification letters · Zone changes · Sign permits · Site plan review2 permits
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