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Fire Sprinkler System Permit in Nibley, Utah

Nibley's Consolidated Fee Schedule (current FY2026-27 edition, public copy dated 8-6-2026, full text searched directly on 2026-08-16, as well as the two superseded editions before it) contains no 'sprinkler' fee line item of any kind, and Nibley's Building Department and Planning & Zoning pages do not publish a separate fire-sprinkler application or checklist. Fire-code plan review for buildings, roads, and developments in Nibley is instead provided under an intergovernmental agreement with the Cache County Fire District, per Nibley's own 2020 Community Wildfire Preparedness Plan (CWPP): 'Nibley City also has an agreement with Cache County Fire to help provide plan reviews for buildings, roads, and developments to ensure future developments, streets and roads meet fire code' (fire suppression response itself is separately contracted to Hyrum City). The Cache County Fire District DOES publish its own fee schedule, and it has now been retrieved (2026-08-16): 'Cache County Fire District — Fee Schedule (Effective 2026)' charges New Construction (without Sprinklers or Fire Alarm) $130 and New Construction (with Sprinklers and Fire Alarm) $390, plus $65 per New Business License Inspection, $65 first re-inspection and $100 second re-inspection, and $65.00/hour for unlisted services. That schedule is published as a single inline base64-encoded PNG image inside the page HTML, which is why an earlier text-based fetch of the same URL saw only the heading 'Fee Schedule' and was wrongly recorded here as the district publishing no fee content. What still cannot be established is whether a standalone fire-sprinkler installation in Nibley is routed through the district's New Construction inspection fee and, if so, at which tier. Absent a published distinct fee, sprinkler system installations are permitted through Nibley's standard valuation-based Building Permit, which is a genuinely governing fee for this work, plus the Business Licenses & Fees section's flat Fire Marshall Inspection Fee, which rose from $45.00 to $65.00 in the FY2026-27 edition and is now qualified '(Rate set by the County)'.

Reviewed 2026-08-16 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Installation, alteration, or extension of an automatic fire sprinkler system in a building within Nibley, regulated by the International Fire Code (IFC) as adopted and administered by the Utah State Fire Marshal's Office / Utah Fire Prevention Board (a separate adoption track from the Title 15A State Construction Code cycle that governs Nibley's IBC/IRC/IPC/IMC editions)
  • Two copies of engineered, stamped (if applicable), to-scale plans; electronic plans may be submitted with the application, per Nibley's official Building Department page general submittal requirements (no sprinkler-specific submittal checklist is separately published)
  • Fire-code plan review is coordinated through the Cache County Fire District under Nibley's intergovernmental fire-services agreement (contact: Rod Hammer, Cache County Fire Chief, rod.hammer@cachecounty.org, (435) 994-1549), per Nibley's own 2020 CWPP
  • Confirm applicable fee category and plan-review routing directly with the Nibley Building Department before applying, since no sprinkler-specific line item is published on either the city's or Cache County Fire District's fee schedules

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Building Permit Fee (valuation-based, closest published analog)
Nibley City Consolidated Fee Schedule, 'Building Permit Fees' section (unchanged between the 2024 and current 2025-2026 editions). Show full citationNibley City Consolidated Fee Schedule, 'Building Permit Fees' section (unchanged between the 2024 and current 2025-2026 editions). Not confirmed as sprinkler-specific; Nibley has no standalone fire-protection-system permit line item, so this is the closest published, genuinely governing fee for sprinkler installation work.
$24.00 minimum (valuation $1-$500), scaling per Nibley's published valuation table for higher-value work
Plan Review FeeUNCHANGED. FY2026-27 Consolidated Fee Schedule, page 8 (read from render), row 'Plan Review Fee — 0.1% of valuation of the improvement.' Wording identical across all three editions.
0.1% of valuation of the improvement
Fire Marshall Inspection Fee
$45.00 → $65.00. Read from a 200-dpi render of page 1 of the current FY2026-27 Consolidated Fee Schedule (public copy dated 8-6-2026), 'Business Licenses & Fees' table, row: 'Fire Marshall Inspection… Show full citation$45.00 → $65.00. Read from a 200-dpi render of page 1 of the current FY2026-27 Consolidated Fee Schedule (public copy dated 8-6-2026), 'Business Licenses & Fees' table, row: 'Fire Marshall Inspection Fee (Rate set by the County) -- $65.00.' The 2025-2026 edition (page 3, also rendered) still listed $45.00 with no parenthetical. The increase corresponds to the 'County Fire Inspections' element of Resolution 26-09 (City Council agenda item 16, 2026-08-06), and the new '(Rate set by the County)' qualifier confirms Cache County sets the rate. This remains the only fire-official-specific line item published in Nibley's own fee schedule.
$65.00
Cache County Fire District inspection fee (county schedule now retrieved; applicability to a standalone Nibley permit still unconfirmed)
Read from the Cache County Fire District's own Fee Schedule page (cachecounty.gov/fire/cachecounty.org/firefeeschedule.html), heading 'Cache County Fire District — Fee Schedule (Effective 2026)',… Show full citationRead from the Cache County Fire District's own Fee Schedule page (cachecounty.gov/fire/cachecounty.org/firefeeschedule.html), heading 'Cache County Fire District — Fee Schedule (Effective 2026)', section 'Inspections & Permits'. IMPORTANT RETRIEVAL NOTE: this schedule is published as a single inline base64-encoded PNG image embedded directly in the page HTML, with no table markup and no linked PDF. Any text-based fetch of the page therefore returns only the words 'Fee Schedule' and no figures — which is exactly what a prior note in this record recorded as evidence that the district published no fee content. That conclusion was wrong. The figures here were obtained by decoding the inline base64 image out of the page HTML and reading the rendered image on 2026-08-16. The prior note in this record recorded these fees as unverifiable on that false basis and additionally discounted a local-newspaper report of county fire construction-permit fees 'differentiated by the presence of a sprinkler system' as describing only a proposed increase; the district's own published schedule now confirms that differentiation is adopted and in force — New Construction without Sprinklers or Fire Alarm $130, with Sprinklers and Fire Alarm $390. Cross-check: the district's $65 New Business License Inspection exactly matches the $65.00 'Fire Marshall Inspection Fee (Rate set by the County)' that Nibley added to its FY2026-27 schedule, which corroborates that Nibley passes county fire rates through at face value. WHAT IS STILL NOT ESTABLISHED, and why this permit type stays partial: neither Nibley nor the district publishes anything stating that a standalone sprinkler installation in Nibley is routed through the district's New Construction inspection fee, or which of the two tiers would apply to sprinkler-only work on an existing building. These amounts are recorded as the county's published rates, not as a determination that they attach to this permit.
New Construction (without Sprinklers or Fire Alarm) $130; New Construction (with Sprinklers and Fire Alarm) $390; New Business License Inspection $65; Cooking Hood Inspection $65; First Re-inspection $65; Second Re-inspection $100; unlisted services $65.00/hour (1-hour minimum, quarter-hour increments thereafter, 1.5× after hours/weekends/county holidays)

Review timeline

Plan review
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Inspection process

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    Fire Sprinkler System Inspection

    Inspection of the installed sprinkler system prior to final approval. Required inspections vary by project and are listed upon permit issuance per Nibley's official Building Department page; fire-code inspection coordination runs through the Cache County Fire District per Nibley's intergovernmental fire-services agreement.

See the full Nibley inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →

Tips

  • Nibley has no distinct fire-sprinkler permit type or fee -- confirmed by a full-text search of both the 2024 and current 2025-2026 Consolidated Fee Schedules, neither of which contains the word 'sprinkler' anywhere.
  • Fire-code plan review for buildings in Nibley is handled through an intergovernmental agreement with the Cache County Fire District, not by Nibley's own Building Department staff alone -- per the city's own 2020 Community Wildfire Preparedness Plan.
  • Cache County Fire District's own official fee-schedule webpage returns no content, so confirm any separate fire-protection-system plan-review fee directly with Cache County Fire (Rod Hammer, Fire Chief, (435) 994-1549) or the Nibley Building Department before applying.
  • Nibley's only fire-official-specific published fee is the flat Fire Marshall Inspection Fee under Business Licenses & Fees, which rose from $45.00 to $65.00 in the FY2026-27 Consolidated Fee Schedule and is now labelled '(Rate set by the County)'.

Frequently asked questions

Nibley requires a fire sprinkler system permit for: Installation, alteration, or extension of an automatic fire sprinkler system in a building within Nibley, regulated by the International Fire Code (IFC) as adopted and administered by the Utah State Fire Marshal's Office / Utah Fire Prevention Board (a separate adoption track from the Title 15A State Construction Code cycle that governs Nibley's IBC/IRC/IPC/IMC editions); Two copies of engineered, stamped (if applicable), to-scale plans; electronic plans may be submitted with the application, per Nibley's official Building Department page general submittal requirements (no sprinkler-specific submittal checklist is separately published); Fire-code plan review is coordinated through the Cache County Fire District under Nibley's intergovernmental fire-services agreement (contact: Rod Hammer, Cache County Fire Chief, rod.hammer@cachecounty.org, (435) 994-1549), per Nibley's own 2020 CWPP; Confirm applicable fee category and plan-review routing directly with the Nibley Building Department before applying, since no sprinkler-specific line item is published on either the city's or Cache County Fire District's fee schedules. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Nibley City Building Department (Public Works) at (435) 752-0431 before starting work.

Not published. A full-text search of Nibley's current FY2026-27 Consolidated Fee Schedule (public copy dated 8-6-2026) found no 'sprinkler' fee line item, matching the two superseded editions. Fire-code plan review for buildings in Nibley is coordinated through an intergovernmental agreement with the Cache County Fire District (per the city's own 2020 Community Wildfire Preparedness Plan), while sprinkler installation itself is expected to be permitted through Nibley's standard valuation-based Building Permit plus the city's flat $65.00 Fire Marshall Inspection Fee (raised from $45.00 in the FY2026-27 edition). Confirm the exact fee treatment, including any separate Cache County Fire District charge, with the Nibley Building Department before applying.

Nibley does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Nibley City Building Department (Public Works) at (435) 752-0431 for current turnaround.

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

Nibley requires 1 inspection(s) for a fire sprinkler system permit, in order: Fire Sprinkler System Inspection. Schedule each through Nibley City Building Department (Public Works) ((435) 752-0431).

Apply through Nibley City Building Department (Public Works) at 455 W 3200 S, Nibley, UT 84321-6337. Phone: (435) 752-0431. Office hours: Mon–Fri 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Official information: https://nibleycity.gov/building-department/.

Nibley, Utah has adopted: 2021 International Residential Code (IRC) — Nibley City Building Department page states: 'Nibley is currently using the ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah'; per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(b), the 2021 IRC continues in force statewide, unchanged by the July 1, 2026 update.; 2024 International Building Code (IBC), including Appendices C and J — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a), effective July 1, 2026.; 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(d), effective July 1, 2026; per Nibley's own 'ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah' statement.; 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(e), effective July 1, 2026; per Nibley's own 'ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah' statement.; 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(f), effective July 1, 2026; per Nibley's own 'ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah' statement.; 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(h), effective July 1, 2026; per Nibley's own 'ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah' statement.; 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(i), effective July 1, 2026; per Nibley's own 'ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah' statement.; Residential provisions of the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(n), effective July 1, 2026; per Nibley's own 'ICC Codes as amended by the state of Utah' statement.; 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — current statewide edition per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(g); unchanged by the July 1, 2026 statewide update.; Modular Building Institute Standards 1200 and 1205 — adopted statewide per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(o); not separately itemized on Nibley's own page, but applies statewide.. Local amendments apply — see the Nibley overview page for the full list.

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