Brigham City building permits

Building department

Address

20 N. Main, 2nd Floor, Brigham City, UT 84302

Phone

(435) 734-6604

Email

thalladay@bcutah.gov

Office hours

Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, closed major holidays, per Brigham City's official Building Permits and Inspections page. Building Official: Tracy Halladay, (435) 734-6628, thalladay@bcutah.gov (permits, inspections, plan review, code analysis, code interpretation). Building Inspector: Kyle Holgreen, (435) 734-6611, kholgreen@bcutah.gov. Permit Technician: Destry Larsen, (435) 734-6604, dlarsen@bcutah.gov (permit processing, inspection scheduling, application submittal, customer service).

Website

Official site

Permit portal

Apply online at Brigham City's portal

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Brigham City — 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), including Appendices C and J — CURRENT statewide as of 7/1/2026 per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a); supersedes the 2021 edition that Brigham City's own official 'Design Criteria for Buildings and Structures Located within Brigham City Limits' document (dated 7/25/2023) still cited as of live re-fetch 2026-07-16 (2021 IBC Section 1803 soils reports, Section 1613.2.2 Site Class, Table 1806.2 and Table 1610.1 bearing pressures) — the document has not been updated to reflect the 2024 edition.
• Utah Title 15A statewide amendments apply on top of the base ICC codes per state law; Brigham City's official Design Criteria document references the Utah-amended ground snow load calculation methodology (previously cited to Utah Code § 15A-3-107, which governs statewide amendments) directly. Construction-code editions themselves are governed by § 15A-2-103, not § 15A-3-107.
• 2021 International Residential Code (IRC) — REMAINS CURRENT, Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(b) did not change this edition in the 7/1/2026 amendment. Brigham City's own 'Single Family Dwelling Building Permit Submittal Requirements' and Roof Building Paper Requirements handouts instead cite the 2015 IRC/IECC by name for specific engineering/energy-compliance documentation — a pre-existing discrepancy independent of the 2026 code-cycle transition (these handouts were already citing an older cycle than the state's 2021 IRC baseline before 7/1/2026, and remain unrevised as of 2026-07-16). Reproduced here exactly as currently published by the city; the current statewide-governing IRC edition is 2021, not 2015.
• 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC), 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC, single unsplit statewide edition), 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC), and the residential provisions of the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC) — all CURRENT statewide as of 7/1/2026 per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(d)/(e)/(f)/(h)/(i)/(n). None are separately itemized in Brigham City's own published Design Criteria document, submittal-requirement handouts, or Building Permits and Inspections page; added here per statute since Brigham City's own materials omit them (the 2015 IECC cited in the city's Roof Building Paper Requirements handout is likewise superseded, per the IRC entry above).
• 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — statewide per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(g); REMAINS CURRENT, unchanged by the 7/1/2026 amendment. Not separately itemized in Brigham City's own published materials; added here per statute.
• NOTE (2026-07-16 re-verification): The Utah Code § 15A-2-103 version effective 7/1/2026 (superseded 1/1/2027) took effect 15 days before this re-verification. IBC/IPC/IMC/IFGC/IECC/IEBC/residential ISPSC are now 2024 statewide; IRC (2021) and NEC (2023) did NOT change. Brigham City's Design Criteria for Buildings and Structures document (the sole cited source for Brigham City's IBC edition) was live re-fetched 2026-07-16 and IS STILL LAGGING — it references 2021 IBC sections throughout with no indication of a later revision date than 7/25/2023. No newer Brigham City-specific code-adoption publication was found on bcutah.gov. The Utah Code § 15A-2-103 citation has been added to the sources array below, pointing to the current in-force version link.

Permit types & fees

• Residential Building Permit (New Single-Family Dwelling)

  Required for new single-family dwelling construction in Brigham City. Fees are valuation-based per the city's own published Building Permit Fee worksheet, which itemizes the Building Permit Fee, Plan Review Fee, utility connection fees, State surcharge, and impact fees for new single-family dwellings specifically (impact fees do not apply to additions/alterations/repairs). Brigham City's permit fee materials (Permit_Fee_Sample.pdf and Brigham_City_Permit_Fees_explanation_2023.pdf) note that connection fees for water, sewer, and electrical service do not appear in the valuation-based fee chart and are billed separately, but no distinct EV charger/EVSE fee or permit category was found in any Brigham City building-permit document as of 2026-07-19 — a standalone EV charger installation would be handled as standard electrical work under the general building permit process.

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• Residential Addition / Remodel Permit

  Required for additions and remodels to existing single-family dwellings in Brigham City, per the city's official Residential Addition/Remodel Submittal Requirements sheet. Uses the same valuation-based Building Permit Fee and Plan Review Fee structure as new construction, but impact fees do NOT apply to additions/alterations/repairs per the city's own Building Fees worksheet.

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• Detached Accessory Structure Permit (Garages, Sheds, etc.)

  Required for all detached residential accessory structures in Brigham City, regardless of size, per the city's official 'Detached Accessory Structure' info sheet. Structures 200 square feet or smaller are reviewed for zoning only (no fee); structures 201 square feet or larger are reviewed for both zoning and building permit approval (fee required). Carports and tarp shelters are treated the same as permanent structures and must meet the same zoning/code requirements including wind/seismic anchoring.

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• Demolition / Asbestos Permit

  Required for demolition of structures in Brigham City, per the city's official Demolition/Asbestos Permit Requirements sheet. Coordinates city-level requirements with the Utah Division of Air Quality's (DAQ) statutory asbestos inspection and notification rules under Utah Administrative Code R307-801 (Utah Asbestos Rule).

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• Commercial Building Permit

  Required for new commercial construction in Brigham City. Uses the same valuation-based Building Permit Fee table as residential (Fee Code 701), but the Plan Review Fee is charged at a distinctly higher commercial rate than the residential rate — confirmed directly from the city's own official Building Fees worksheet, which prints side-by-side residential and commercial worked examples off the same building valuation.

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• Commercial Tenant Improvement / Tenant Finish Permit

  Required for interior tenant-improvement and tenant-finish work within existing commercial space in Brigham City. Brigham City does not publish a distinct tenant-improvement submittal checklist or fee category (unlike its dedicated Residential Addition/Remodel sheet) — the same commercial Building Permit Fee table and 40% commercial Plan Check Fee documented for the Commercial Building Permit apply to tenant-improvement projects based on the scope's declared valuation.

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• Residential Solar / PV System (Distributed Generation Interconnection)

  Required for residential rooftop or ground-mount solar photovoltaic installations in Brigham City. Because Brigham City operates its own municipal electric utility (Brigham City Power), solar PV installs go through a distinct Distributed Generation Interconnection process administered by Brigham City Power rather than the standard Building Division — separate from a general electrical permit, with its own application portal, fee schedule, and third-party plan-review/inspection consultant (West Coast Code Consultants, WC3).

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• Sign Permit

  Required in Brigham City for erecting, reconstructing, or remodeling any sign, under City Code Chapter 29.27 (Sign Regulations). Application is made to the Community Development Department. Re-chased 2026-07-20: the governing sign permit fee is $50.00 per hour of inspection time (minimum half hour), confirmed by TWO independent, decade-apart Brigham City-published sources that agree verbatim — the city's own general Business License Application (updated 03/07/2012, hosted at media.rainpos.com/1276) states 'The cost of a sign permit is $50.00 per hour, inspection time. Minimum 1/2 hr,' and the Wayback Machine's final capture (2022-02-27) of the dedicated bcutah.org Sign Permits page before that domain went dark states the identical figure. A third, lower figure of $35.25 minimum appears in only one place — a niche Home Occupation Minor business license application PDF whose embedded 'Signs' info sheet is dated Feb. 28, 2007 and was never updated even though the container PDF was nominally refreshed 2/20/2020; since that figure is contradicted by two agreeing, independently-dated official sources spanning 2012-2022, it is treated as stale unrevised boilerplate rather than the current governing fee. City Code Chapter 29.27.070(A) itself does not print a dollar figure — it delegates the fee to 'resolution of the City Council' — so the Business License Application and the archived Sign Permits page are the closest available primary evidence of that resolution's current dollar amount. Brigham City has since retired standalone sign-permit PDF forms in favor of the connect.bcutah.org online portal (per the current 'Business License Applications & Forms' page, which now routes 'Sign Permit Application' directly to connect.bcutah.org 'for new or existing commercial businesses'); the portal itself returned an HTTP 503 on a direct fetch attempt and could not be scraped for a further-updated figure.

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• EV Charger / EVSE Permit

  Brigham City does not issue separate trade permits (electrical, plumbing, mechanical) and has no distinct "EV Charger" or "EVSE" fee line item. Its official Fee Schedule (posted by the Brigham City Council) prices all permitted work — including electrical — purely by project market valuation through a single Building Permit fee table (e.g., a $300,000 valuation residential project yields a $2,249.93 building permit fee plus plan review and 1% state fee). A full-text review of the fee schedule and Brigham City's permit-fee explanation document found no mention of "EV," "EVSE," "electric vehicle," or "charging station." An EV charger installation would be permitted and priced under this same valuation-based Building Permit fee table, using the building official's assigned market value for the work, rather than any dedicated EV category.

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• Fire Sprinkler System Permit

  Brigham City does not issue a standalone Fire Sprinkler Permit or publish a distinct sprinkler-system fee line item. Fire sprinkler design/installation for commercial projects is instead handled as part of the general Commercial Building Permit process: the city's official fillable 'Code Analysis for Major Commercial Projects' worksheet (required for major commercial projects) includes an explicit line item — '6. Sprinklers: Required: ___ Provided: ___ Type of sprinkler system (IBC 903.3.1)' — that the design professional completes as part of the standard permit submittal, and Brigham City Municipal Code § 156.300 (Fire Protection) separately authorizes the Fire Marshal to require 'approved fire sprinkler and suppression systems' as a condition of meeting the city's development level-of-service standard. Re-chased 2026-07-21: a full inventory of every document in the city's public document library (the 34-item 'Applications & Forms' folder, the 4-item 'Fire and EMS' documents folder, and the 'Building Permits & Inspections' folder) contains no fire-sprinkler-specific application, checklist, or fee schedule — confirming the fold-in rather than an omission.

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• Fire Alarm System Permit

  Brigham City does not issue a standalone Fire Alarm Permit or publish a distinct fire-alarm fee line item. Fire alarm systems are addressed even less explicitly than fire sprinklers in the city's own materials: the official 'Code Analysis for Major Commercial Projects' worksheet has a dedicated line item for sprinklers (item 6, IBC 903.3.1) but no equivalent dedicated field for fire alarm systems — alarm systems fall under the same general Fire Protection authority the Fire Marshal exercises under Municipal Code § 156.300, reviewed as part of the standard Commercial Building Permit rather than a separate process. Re-chased 2026-07-21: a full inventory of the city's public document library (34-item Applications & Forms folder, 4-item Fire and EMS documents folder, Building Permits & Inspections folder) contains no fire-alarm-specific application, checklist, or fee schedule.

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• Change of Use / Change of Occupancy

  Brigham City does not publish a standalone Change of Use, Change of Occupancy, or Certificate of Occupancy re-issuance permit or fee. Re-chased 2026-07-21 directly against the city's live 'Design Criteria and Code Analysis Requirements' page: its 'Existing Buildings' section states that 'Mandatory seismic upgrades may be required for projects which undergo a change in use or else a significant alteration or addition as defined by IBC Chapter 34 Section 3406.4,' treating a change in use as a triggering condition analyzed within the standard Design Criteria / Code Analysis process rather than a distinct permit category. Consistent with this, the city's official 'Code Analysis for Major Commercial Projects' fillable worksheet includes 'Change in Use' as one of the 'applied occupancies' fields completed as part of the general Commercial Building Permit submittal. A full inventory of the city's 34-document Applications & Forms folder (planning/zoning applications, subdivision plats, conditional/permitted use permits, rezone, annexation, fence, and ADU forms) contains no standalone Change of Use, Change of Occupancy, or Certificate of Occupancy application.

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