What permits do you need to open a childcare centre in West Jordan?

There is no single figure, and any site quoting one is rounding away the part that matters. Of the 12 records listed for a childcare centre in West Jordan, UT, 5 apply to every business of this type and 7 are conditional. Adding every fee on the page together would overstate what most operators pay, because it would include permits they never need.

Of the 5 that always apply, 1 carry a flat fee, coming to $290.00. That is a floor, not a total. 4 of the 12 are charged as a range or a formula set by the issuing agency, and 1 has no fee published at all. The ones that vary:

General Business Licence: 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 this project's ten tracked industries — 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.

Building Permit (Commercial): Priced by total project valuation (per the International Code Council's Building Valuation Data as of July 1 each year): $1-$2,000, $60.50 plus $3.70 per additional $100 (or fraction) after $500; $2,001-$25,000, $116.00 plus $16.90 per additional $1,000; $25,001-$50,000, $505.00 plus $12.20 per additional $1,000; $50,001-$100,000, $810.00 plus $8.45 per additional $1,000; $100,001-$500,000, $1,233.00 plus $6.76 per additional $1,000; $500,001-$1,000,000, $3,938.00 plus $5.75 per additional $1,000; over $1,000,000, $6,803.00 plus $3.80 per additional $1,000. A 1% state surcharge and a $12-per-permit processing fee both apply on top. Non-Residential plan review is 65% of the building permit fee. Electrical, plumbing and mechanical work is priced separately as a Miscellaneous Minimum Permit at $70 each.

Commercial Business Fire Inspection: The fee schedule's own table is internally contradictory as of this file's retrieval date. It lists a 'Commercial Bi-Annual Business Inspection' (charged every two years), by employee count: 0-10 employees $88, 11-50 employees $242, more than 50 employees $330 — each figure carrying a parenthetical stating it 'will revert to $44 / $121 / $165 January 1, 2026' when the inspection itself reverts from a two-year to an annual cycle. That reversion date has already passed as of this document's own 'Updated June 23, 2026' revision, which still prints the higher, bi-annual figures as current without updating the now-past-tense reversion language. Which set of figures — and which billing frequency — is actually in effect today could not be determined from the published schedule alone. A 2nd re-inspection after an initial violation is free; a 3rd and subsequent re-inspection is $175 each; inspection reports are $15 each.

Child Care Centre Licence: $62 licence fee, plus $200 for a new centre and $1.75 for every child of licensed capacity

Permits for a childcare centre in West Jordan, UT come from 7 separate offices: City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing Division, City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Building & Safety Division, City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Planning and Zoning Division, West Jordan Fire Department, Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau), Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Background Checks. No single office issues them all, which is why an opening means filing in several places rather than one.

• City of West Jordan Finance Department, Business Licensing DivisionIssues 1 permit on this page: General Business Licence8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5010westjordan.utah.gov/business-licensing
• City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Building & Safety DivisionIssues 2 permits on this page: Building Permit (Commercial), Certificate of Occupancy8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5050www.westjordan.utah.gov/community-development/development-application-and-permits
• City of West Jordan Community Development Department, Planning and Zoning DivisionIssues 1 permit on this page: Zoning Verification Letter8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, UT 84088 · (801) 569-5060www.westjordan.utah.gov/community-development/development-application-and-permits
• West Jordan Fire DepartmentIssues 2 permits on this page: Commercial Business Fire Inspection, Home Childcare Facility Fire Inspection7602 S. Jordan Landing Blvd., West Jordan, UT 84084 · (801) 840-4000www.westjordan.utah.gov/fire
• Salt Lake County Health Department, Environmental Health Division (Food Protection Bureau)Issues 1 permit on this page: Residential Care (Adult and Child) Food Service Inspection788 East Woodoak Lane (5380 South), Murray, UT 84107 · (385) 468-3845www.saltlakecounty.gov/health/food-protection
• Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial CodeIssues 4 permits on this page: General Business Licence (not required by Utah), Certificate of Organization (LLC), Articles of Incorporation, Annual Renewal160 East 300 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 · (801) 530-4849corporations.utah.gov
• Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Background ChecksIssues 1 permit on this page: Child Care Centre Licence195 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 · (801) 538-4242dlbc.utah.gov/home/office-of-licensing/child-care

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 licence 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 licence 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.

Applied for through the city's Development Public Portal. Commercial project reviews allow up to 21 business days; corrections are reviewed within 5 business days. A demolition permit is a flat $175; a manufactured home building permit is $250.

The city's own Commercial Business License checklist recommends contacting Planning & Zoning (801-569-5060) before applying for a business licence, to confirm zoning requirements and possible restrictions on the intended location. A more involved 'Zoning Administration/Interpretation/Determination' is billed separately at $100/hour, and a full Zone Change is $3,214 — this file records those as related but distinct products rather than assuming one figure covers all three.

Unlike Salt Lake City and West Valley City, both of which record no published Certificate of Occupancy fee anywhere in their own fee schedules, West Jordan's own Consolidated Fee Schedule prices this inspection directly at $290. It is unlawful to use or occupy a building before this certificate is approved. Confirm with Building & Safety (801-569-5050) whether a temporary certificate (available for projects not yet fully complete) carries the same fee.

A center-based (commercial) childcare facility is billed under these same employee-count tiers, not the separate $44 Home Childcare Facility line recorded below, which this file's research could only confirm applies to home-based daycare.

A named Fire Department line specific to home-based (in-residence) daycare, confirmed absent from Salt Lake City's and West Valley City's own fire fee tables. A center-based, commercial childcare facility does not have its own named category on this table and is instead billed under the general Commercial Business Fire Inspection's employee-count tiers, recorded above — this file treats the two as distinct rather than assuming this $44 figure covers every childcare business.

The Health Department's own kitchen/food-service inspection for a childcare centre that prepares or serves food, additional to and separate from the Utah DLBC state child-care licence recorded at the state layer, the West Jordan Fire Department's own Home Childcare Facility inspection recorded above (which applies only to home-based daycare), and the general Commercial Business Fire Inspection that a center-based childcare facility owes instead. Easy to miss because it is filed with the county health department rather than the childcare licensing agency.

No fee, because Utah's state-level structure is entity registration rather than business licensing — the Division of Corporations frames the question as whether another unit of government requires registration, not as a licence the state itself grants for the right to operate. A city or county licence is the thing that actually functions as a general business licence for most Utah businesses.

Fifty-nine dollars, the same figure whether the entity is domestic or registering in from out of state. A corporation costs the identical $59 to form.

The same $59 as an LLC, and a nonprofit corporation costs the same again.

Eighteen dollars a year, the same figure for an LLC or a corporation, due in the entity's own anniversary month rather than a single date shared statewide. Missing it is not immediately fatal: the statute gives sixty days from the division's notice to cure before administrative dissolution follows, and reinstating after dissolution costs $54 for an LLC or a corporation. A dissolved entity's name, and any assumed names filed under it, cannot be reused by anyone else for two years afterward.

The base licence fee is a flat $62 whether a facility is a family home or a centre, but a centre pays two further charges a home does not: $200 as a one-time fee for a new centre or a change of location, and $1.75 for every child of approved capacity, applied at both first issue and renewal — a fifty-child centre pays $87.50 on that line alone. A family or home-based provider pays only the flat $62. Renewing more than thirty days late adds a $31 penalty plus, for a centre, seventy-five cents per child. Fingerprinting for a required background check is billed separately, at $42 per person.