Sign Permit in Ault, Colorado

Ault requires a sign permit for: No sign shall be erected, enlarged, modified, or changed within the Town of Ault without a sign permit first being obtained (Ault Municipal Code Chapter 16.07, quoted verbatim on the Town's live Sign Permits application page); The application must set out, in such detail as reasonably requested by the Town, a description of the sign, the nature of the change/enlargement/modification (if applicable), and a picture or drawing of the sign as proposed; The application fee is set by Resolution of the Board of Trustees from time to time 'to defray the costs of processing the application and issuing the permit'; the fee currently published on the live application page is $25.00; Ault's Zoning Code Section 16.03.060 ('Nonconforming Uses – Buildings,' per the Internet Archive's capture of the Town's now-defunct myaultgov.org portal) explicitly lists 'signs' among the categories of nonconforming uses/structures that may lawfully continue if they predate the current code, but which may not be altered, extended, or restored, and which lose that nonconforming status if discontinued for six (6) months — confirming signage is genuinely cross-referenced elsewhere in Ault's code, not just in the standalone Chapter 16.07; If the sign involves an electrical connection (illumination), the SAFEbuilt-administered Electrical Permit process (see the electrical-permit entry) applies to that portion of the work in addition to the Chapter 16.07 sign permit; Some secondary sources suggest a specific subsection citation of '16.07.100' and a distinct $25.00 fee line for sandwich-board signs; this record does NOT assert either the subsection number or a sandwich-board-specific fee as confirmed facts, since the Town's own application page states only the single general $25.00 sign permit fee and does not itemize a separate sandwich-board rate. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Town of Ault (building official, plan review, and inspection services contracted to SAFEbuilt Colorado) at 970-834-2844 before starting work.

$25.00, per the Town's live Sign Permits application page. This fee is set by Resolution of the Board of Trustees and may change over time; no separate published rate for sandwich-board or other sign subtypes was found.

Ault does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Ault (building official, plan review, and inspection services contracted to SAFEbuilt Colorado) at 970-834-2844 for current turnaround.

You'll need: Sign Permit Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Apply through Town of Ault (building official, plan review, and inspection services contracted to SAFEbuilt Colorado) at 201 1st Street, PO Box 1098, Ault, CO 80610. Phone: 970-834-2844, email: info@aultcolorado.gov. Office hours: Town Hall does not publish specific daily office hours on its Contact Us or Building Permits pages as of the last verification; the Town's public-works page separately states Public Works operates 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday (except holidays), and the site-wide holiday-closure banner implies a standard 9:00 a.m. reopening time, but neither is confirmed as the Building Department's specific window. Call 970-834-2844 to confirm hours before visiting in person.. Official information: https://www.aultcolorado.gov/buildingpermits.

Ault, Colorado has adopted: 2024 International Residential Code (IRC) — per the '2026 SAFEbuilt Residential Application Check List' (Town of Ault Building Permits page, Helpful/Residential resource): 'All submittal information must comply with the 2024 I-codes and the 2023 NEC.'; 2024 International Building Code (IBC) — per the SAFEbuilt 'New Commercial Plan Submittal Procedure' and 'Commercial Tenant Finish/Remodel Plan Submittal Procedure' documents on the Town of Ault Building Permits page, both headed '2024 INTERNATIONAL CODES.'; 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — required compliance documentation (ResCheck or energy rating report) explicitly named in the SAFEbuilt Residential Application Check List; commercial submittal procedures likewise require 'Documentation showing compliance with the 2024 IECC.'; 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — explicitly named in the SAFEbuilt Residential Application Check List ('...and the 2023 NEC').; 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) / International Plumbing Code (IPC) — inferred from the SAFEbuilt submittal procedures' consistent requirement of 'Mechanical/Plumbing Plans' stamped by a Colorado-licensed engineer, cross-referenced against the same '2024 INTERNATIONAL CODES' heading used for the IBC/IECC citation on the same documents; not named by edition number in the source text, so carried at 'partial' confidence for the specific IMC/IPC edition number. The Town's own codified Municipal Code (Title 15 Ch.04, Sections 030/060, per the Internet Archive's captures of the now-defunct myaultgov.org portal: Sec. 030 Mechanical, 'International Mechanical Code, 2018 Edition'; Sec. 060 Plumbing, 'International Plumbing Code, 2012 Edition') shows both trade codes were LAST codified at pre-2024 editions — older than, and in unresolved tension with, SAFEbuilt's current 2024-I-code submittal language; no live, currently-hosted Municipal Code exists to confirm whether these sections have since been amended to 2024 editions, so the specific currently-governing IMC/IPC edition numbers remain genuinely unconfirmed and are NOT asserted as '2024' anywhere in this record.; 1997 Uniform Building Code (UBC), Table 1-A — still the operative VALUATION-BASED FEE TABLE per the Town's 'Building Permit Fee Schedule' (Exhibit B — Fee Schedule for Services, a SAFEbuilt consultant-services fee exhibit posted on the Town's Building Permits resource list, last modified 5/19/24). This is a fee-calculation table, not a life-safety code edition, and is retained purely because it is the Town's actual current, published fee mechanism — it does not indicate the Town is still enforcing 1997 UBC life-safety provisions, which are superseded by the 2024 I-codes cited above.; No separate Ault-specific building-code-adoption ordinance was found published online: the Town of Ault Municipal Code page (aultcolorado.gov/MuniCode) states 'A Copy of the Ault Municipal Code is Available Upon Request' and is not hosted on Municode/eCode360 or any other public code-hosting platform; the Town's online Document Archive 'Ordinances' folder contains only a 'Non-Certified Copy of 2024 Model Traffic Code' (unrelated to building codes). The SAFEbuilt submittal-requirement documents (which explicitly compel 2024 I-code / 2023 NEC compliance and are hosted directly on the Town's own Building Permits page) are therefore treated as the governing, currently-operative code-adoption source for this record, consistent with SAFEbuilt Colorado being Ault's contracted building official/plan-review/inspection provider (per Exhibit B of the Town-SAFEbuilt consultant services agreement).. Local amendments apply — see the Ault overview page for the full list.

Yes. Ault Municipal Code Chapter 16.07 states no sign may be erected, enlarged, modified, or changed within the Town without a sign permit first being obtained. Apply online via the Town's Sign Permits page; the current fee is $25.00.