Unincorporated Beaver County building permits
VerifiedDepartment contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Unincorporated Beaver County, Utah.
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Building department
- Address
- 105 East Center Street, Beaver, UT 84713 (mailing: P.O. Box 1013, Beaver, UT 84713)
- Phone
- (435) 438-6484
- Office hours
- Monday–Thursday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Friday 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Field inspections conducted 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM Monday–Thursday. Closed federal and local holidays.
- Website
- Official site
Inspection guide
See how inspections work in Unincorporated Beaver County — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.
Codes adopted
Utah adopts construction codes statewide under Utah Code Title 15A (State Construction and Fire Codes Act), enforced by every jurisdiction. Chapter 4 of Title 15A codifies Legislature-enacted amendments for specific named jurisdictions (e.g., Park City, Salt Lake City, Sandy City) as part of the state construction code. Through June 30, 2026, the editions in force under Utah Code § 15A-2-103 are the 2021 IBC (with Appendices C and J), 2021 IRC, 2021 IPC, 2021 IMC, 2021 IFGC, 2021 IECC, 2021 IEBC, and 2021 ISPSC (residential provisions), together with the 2023 NEC. Effective July 1, 2026, § 15A-2-103 adopts the 2024 editions of the IBC, IPC, IMC, IFGC, IECC, IEBC, and ISPSC; the IRC remains the 2021 edition and the NEC remains the 2023 edition. Note: residential energy requirements are modified by statewide amendments, and several Utah jurisdictions document their residential energy provisions at the 2015 IECC level rather than the adopted IECC year — confirm the applicable residential energy code with your local jurisdiction. Always confirm the edition in force with your local jurisdiction.
- 2024 International Building Code (IBC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a), statewide default; effective 7/1/2026, superseding the 2021 edition
- 2021 International Residential Code (IRC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(b); IRC remains at the 2021 edition across the 7/1/2026 statutory rollover
- 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(d), effective 7/1/2026
- 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(e), effective 7/1/2026
- 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(f), effective 7/1/2026
- 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(g); NEC remains at the 2023 edition across the 7/1/2026 rollover
- 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(h), effective 7/1/2026
- 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(i), effective 7/1/2026
- 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC) — Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(n), effective 7/1/2026
- NOTE: Beaver County's own Building Department web pages (Building Code Information / Building Plan Requirements / Utah Code) do not republish specific code-edition numbers or amendments; the county's Inspection Information page cites 'International Residential Code (IRC) 109.5' and 'International Building Code Section 110.1' generically without an edition year. Absent a county-specific amendment, this file reports the statewide statutory default per Utah Code § 15A-2-103, consistent with the treatment used for other unincorporated Utah counties in this corpus (e.g., Iron County) that do not independently republish edition numbers.
Permit types & fees
Residential Building Permit
Required for new single-family dwelling construction, additions, and structural alterations in unincorporated Beaver County (parcel numbers beginning 01- or 02-). Zoning, permit application, payment, and inspection scheduling all go through the Beaver County Building Department via its beavercounty.cityinspect.com portal. Building permit fees are valuation-based, determined by the current IBC/IRC valuation methodology per the county's own 2026 Fee Schedule.
Electrical / Mechanical / Plumbing / Roofing Permit
A single flat-fee permit category covering electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and roofing work in unincorporated Beaver County that does not rise to the level of new construction — e.g., panel upgrades, furnace/AC replacement, plumbing alterations, and reroofing beyond the county's permit-exempt threshold. Explicitly a distinct, single flat fee line item on the county's own fee schedule. EV charger/EVSE installation is electrical work (new circuit/branch circuit) and falls under this general permit category; the county's fee schedule does not publish an EV-specific line item.
Commercial Building Permit
Required for new commercial construction in unincorporated Beaver County. Beaver County publishes only ONE generic, valuation-based 'Building' permit fee line ('Determined by the Current IBC/IRC') for all building permits — there is no separate commercial dollar table, commercial plan-review percentage, plan-review deposit, or commercial-specific document checklist anywhere in the county's official Fee Schedule, Building Permit Requirements page, or Permits page. The same fee line, application process, and document set documented for the county's Residential Building Permit applies to commercial projects.
Commercial Tenant Improvement / Tenant Finish Permit
Required for interior remodel, tenant finish, and tenant-improvement work inside existing commercial space in unincorporated Beaver County. Beaver County does not publish a distinct tenant-improvement fee category; the same generic 'Building' valuation-based fee, OR the flat $75.75 Electrical/Plumbing/Mechanical/Roof fee, applies depending on the scope of work involved — the county's fee schedule does not itemize tenant improvement as its own category.
EV Charger / EVSE Permit
Beaver County does not publish a distinct EV charger / EVSE fee line item. The county's fee schedule prices all electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and roofing work under one combined flat fee ($75.75), which is the category an EV charger circuit installation would fall under, but the county has not explicitly confirmed EV charger treatment in any published document.
Solar / Solar-PV Installation Permit
Beaver County does not publish a distinct solar or solar-PV permit type, application, checklist, or fee line item. A residential or commercial solar-PV installation in unincorporated Beaver County is processed under the same two general BUILDING-section fee lines that cover all other construction: the structural/roof-mounting scope (racking, roof penetrations, any new/altered structural support) falls under the general valuation-based Building permit ('Determined by the Current IBC/IRC'), and the electrical interconnection scope (inverter, disconnects, new circuits/panel work) falls under the flat $75.75 Electrical/Plumbing/Mechanical/Roof permit — the same combined trade-permit fee documented elsewhere in this file for EV chargers. Confirmed by direct full-text extraction of all 8 pages of the county's 2026 Fee Schedule PDF (2026-07-21): no solar, photovoltaic, PV, or renewable-energy fee, form, or checklist appears anywhere in that document, the county's Permits page form list, the Building Permit Requirements page's 'Work Requiring/Not Requiring a Permit' lists, or the Fees & Payments page.
Sign Permit
Beaver County Code § 9-16-1 (Chapter 16, Signs) sets dimensional standards — maximum size, minimum height, permitted zone, and type of illumination — for advertising, business, nameplate, property sale/lease/rent/trespass, public information, and temporary signs, and requires 'All signs must conform to state regulations.' As a 'structure,' erecting a sign also triggers the county's general permit requirement at Beaver County Code § 9-1-7(A) ('The construction, alteration, repair or removal of any building or structure, or any part thereof... shall not be commenced until the building inspector has issued the appropriate permit'). However, Beaver County publishes no distinct sign-permit application form, checklist, or fee line item anywhere in its materials — confirmed by direct full-text extraction of the entire 8-page 2026 Fee Schedule PDF (re-verified 2026-07-22: the BUILDING section contains only 'Building,' 'Electrical/Plumbing/Mechanical/Roof,' Re-Inspection, Outside-Hours, and Red Tag Letter line items, none of which is sign-specific) and the county's Permits page (no sign form listed). Which of those general fee lines, if any, a sign application would actually be billed under is not established in any published county document — a genuine gap, not an invented fee.
Fire Sprinkler / Fire Alarm Plan Review Permit
Beaver County's own Building Department materials (Fee Schedule 2026, Permits page, Building Permit Requirements page — all re-checked 2026-07-22) publish no distinct fire-sprinkler or fire-alarm permit, fee, or application, and neither of the county's two local fire service districts (Beaver Fire District #1, serving the Beaver-area east side of the county, and Fire Service District #2, serving Milford and Minersville) publishes a fire-sprinkler/alarm plan-review or permitting process anywhere on the county's website. The real, currently-live fallback is the Utah State Fire Marshal's Office (USFM) statewide plan-review submittal process for automatic fire sprinkler and fire alarm systems ($0.022 per square foot of review scope, $75 minimum fee, per USFM's own submittal forms). However, Utah Admin. Code R710-9-8 assigns fire/life-safety plan review of most publicly-owned buildings, colleges/universities, and institutional occupancies to the 'local fire authority' (LFA) first, falling to the USFM only if the LFA does not complete it — the USFM's own explicit, unconditional plan-review jurisdiction is centered on state-owned buildings and K-12 schools. Since Beaver County's local fire districts do not publish any plan-review capability at all, which entity actually reviews an ordinary private commercial sprinkler/alarm submittal in unincorporated Beaver County is not clearly established in any single published county or state document. This is documented here as a genuine, honestly-flagged gap rather than an invented answer.
Change Of Use / Certificate Of Occupancy
Beaver County does not publish a distinct 'change of use' or 'certificate of occupancy' permit, application, or fee line — confirmed by direct full-text extraction of the entire 8-page 2026 Fee Schedule PDF (re-verified 2026-07-22) and by the county's Permits page and Building Permit Requirements page, neither of which lists a CO or change-of-use form. Beaver County Code § 9-1-7(A) already requires a permit before any party may 'construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish, or change the occupancy of a building or structure' — meaning a change of occupancy/use is processed as a variant of the same general Building Permit application (beavercounty.cityinspect.com) and billed under the same generic valuation-based 'Building' fee line ('Determined by the Current IBC/IRC'), not a separate line item. The Building Department's own materials confirm a certificate of occupancy is issued only once all required inspections are complete, but describe no standalone CO application or fee distinct from the underlying permit.
New residential construction activity
New privately-owned residential construction onlyHousing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).
- Latest month (2026-05)
- 3units
3 buildings · $1.1M valuation
- Trailing 12 months
- 41units
12 of 12 months reported · #72 in Utah coverage by units
- Year to date (2026 YTD through 2026-05)
- 13units
13 buildings · $6.4M valuation
- Full year 2025
- 48units
40 buildings · $17.7M valuation
County-wide figures: BPS reports county-wide totals; jurisdiction is the unincorporated remainder (parcel prefixes 01- and 02- per the Beaver County Building Department's own parcel-prefix guidance). Beaver County's Building Department also administers permit application, payment, and inspection scheduling for Minersville Town (parcel prefix 04-, zoning only reserved to the town) directly through the same county intake system (beavercounty.cityinspect.com) — Minersville does not run its own permit/payment system. Milford City (parcel prefix 05-) retains zoning AND payment locally but routes permit application and all inspections through the county's same intake system. Beaver City (parcel prefix 03-) is the one municipality in the county that runs its own separate permit-intake system (its own City Inspect instance, effective 5/1/2026) with its own zoning, application, scheduling, and in-person payment — county involvement there is limited to contracted inspection labor. This file therefore covers unincorporated county land plus, functionally, Minersville's incorporated area (identical intake/payment/inspection pathway) but does NOT cover Milford (files separately, contracted-inspection city like Beaver City for the application/payment leg) or Beaver City (excluded as its own de facto pathway).
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-05 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Utah building activity
Tips & gotchas
- Determine your parcel prefix before applying, per the county's own 'Find Your Area' guidance: 01- or 02- = unincorporated county (zoning, application, payment, and inspections all through the county — this file); 03- = Beaver City (city runs its own separate City Inspect site for zoning/application/scheduling and takes payment in person; county only performs contracted inspections — file separately, NOT covered by this file); 04- = Minersville (town retains zoning only; application, payment, and inspections all go through the county's same system as unincorporated county); 05- = Milford (city retains zoning AND payment; application and inspections go through the county — file separately).
- Beaver City is NOT a pure hand-off to the county. As of the county's own current guidance (How-to-Apply document, effective 5/1/2026), Beaver City operates its own independent City Inspect portal for zoning, permit application, and inspection scheduling, and payment is made in person at Beaver City offices — Beaver County's role there is limited to performing the physical inspections under contract. This is the same contracted-inspection pattern documented elsewhere in this corpus (e.g., West Bountiful), not a case where the county effectively administers the city's permitting. Confirms this corpus's 'ambiguous, lean-exclude' flag as correct: Beaver City should remain excluded/covered by its own file, not folded into this county file.
- Minersville, by contrast, IS functionally administered by the county for permitting purposes — the town retains only the zoning-clearance step, while application, payment, and inspection all route through the same beavercounty.cityinspect.com system used for unincorporated county land. Practically, Minersville's building-permit experience (minus the zoning approval) is identical to unincorporated county residents'.
- Milford retains both zoning AND payment locally (paid directly to Milford City offices per the county's How-to-Apply document), with only application processing and inspections routed through the county — a middle case between Beaver City's full separation and Minersville's near-total integration. Milford is excluded from this file per the corpus plan and should be documented in its own file reflecting this hybrid pattern.
- Southwest Utah Public Health Department approval of culinary water supply and waste disposal method is a hard prerequisite for building permit issuance countywide (Beaver County Code § 9-1-7(B)) — plan for this lead time separately from the Building Department's own 14-business-day review estimate.
- An additional 23-foot setback is reserved for future road improvements on top of each zoning district's standard setback, per Beaver County Code § 9-1-7(C).
- Work NOT requiring a permit: decks ≤200 sq ft and ≤30 inches above grade not attached to a dwelling; fences ≤7 ft; painting/tiling/carpeting/cabinets/countertops and similar finish work; portable heating/cooling/ventilation appliances; re-roofing; retaining walls ≤4 ft (measured from bottom of footing to top of wall); single-story detached accessory structures ≤200 sq ft (sheds, playhouses); sidewalks and driveways; swings/playground equipment.
- Emergency equipment replacements/repairs may proceed immediately, but the permit application must be submitted to the building official the next working business day.
- Beaver County's frost depth is 30 inches below grade; roof snow load is generally 30 lbs/sq ft in valley areas, with snow loads above 6,200 ft elevation determined by engineering on a location-specific basis.
- All inspections require a minimum 24 hours' advance notice; call (435) 438-6484 or request online via beavercounty.cityinspect.com.