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Sign Permit — Price, Utah · Requirements sheet
Reviewed 2026-07-20 · Source: https://www.priceutah.gov/uploads/1/1/9/7/119716550/2026_land_code.pdf
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Sign Permit in Price, Utah
Required for erecting, reconstructing, or remodeling most signs in Price City, per Chapter 4 (Sign Regulations / Sign Code) of the Price City Land Use Development and Management Code, § 4.9 (Sign Permit and Permit Fee Required). Applications go to the Zoning Administrator, who must issue the permit within 60 days of receipt if the proposed sign complies with the code. PermitBase could not locate the specific dollar fee amount in any Price City fee schedule published online — the code states only that the fee is 'established by resolution of the City Council' and identified in 'the approved fee schedule of Price City'; Price's own online Planning and Zoning Permit Fee Schedule (effective 1-1-2026) covers subdivision, rezoning, and conditional-use fees but does not list a sign line item, and no separate building-permit fee schedule with a sign line item was found on either priceutah.gov or Carbon County's building-permit pages (Price contracts building inspection to Carbon County).
Reviewed 2026-07-20 · Source
When you need this permit
- All signs must comply with current International Electric Code and International Building Code standards as adopted by Price City, plus city ordinances and Utah law (§ 4.5.2)
- Signs requiring inspection of electrical connections or structural attachments must be installed under inspection of the Price City Building Inspector (§ 4.5.4)
- No permit required for sign maintenance or a change of copy alone (§ 4.5.1)
- Anyone erecting, altering, relocating, constructing, or maintaining signs near/upon public right-of-way must hold a valid Utah contractor license and valid business license, and carry liability insurance of at least $3,000,000 (§ 4.5.8) Contractor
- Sign type, dimensions, number, and location are regulated by one of three sign overlay districts — S-1 (Residential), S-2 (Downtown/Shopping Centers), S-3 (Arterial/State Highways) — per §§ 4.11–4.13
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Fee schedule
Sign Permit FeePrice City Land Use Development and Management Code (2026 edition) § 4.9: 'Application for a sign permit shall be made to the Zoning Administrator and shall be accompanied by a fee identified in the approved fee schedule of Price City to defray the expenses to Price City incurred in the administration of this chapter. Such fee shall be established by resolution of the City Council.' The city's own online 'Planning and Zoning Permit Fee Schedule' (effective 1-1-2026) lists subdivision, rezoning, conditional-use, and similar planning fees but no sign line item; contact Price City directly for the current sign permit fee. Re-chased 2026-07-20 with additional avenues: located Price City Municipal Code TITLE 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE, Chapter 3.24 "Administrative Service And Operational Fees" (codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/priceut/latest/price_ut/0-0-0-1089 TOC, chapter link id 0-0-0-1098) -- this is almost certainly Price City's actual master/consolidated fee-setting chapter referenced by the Land Use code's "approved fee schedule of Price City" language, and likely contains the sign permit dollar figure. However, the chapter's content could not be extracted after genuine effort: a direct fetch returned only the JS-rendered application shell with no section text; the r.jina.ai reader proxy fell back silently to the code library's generic Overview page instead of the chapter; amlegal's in-site search endpoint returned HTTP 403 (Cloudflare-protected); WebFetch on the same URL also returned HTTP 403; and no Wayback Machine snapshot of this specific chapter URL exists. This chapter (3.24) is flagged here as the specific next avenue to chase -- e.g. via a real browser session or a phone call to the City Recorder's office requesting the Chapter 3.24 fee table -- rather than left as a dead end. A second re-chase on 2026-07-20 tried further avenues specifically targeting Chapter 3.24's origin and access: (1) traced the chapter's adopting resolution -- Price City Council minutes for 4/9/2014 (priceutah.gov, fetched and read in full) confirm 'RESOLUTION 2014-11. Setting forth the rates and charges for administrative service and operational fees to the general public' was moved and approved that meeting, but the minutes record only the motion/vote, not an attached fee-table exhibit -- the resolution text itself was not separately published online. (2) Retried the amlegal chapter URL with a full realistic-browser header set (Chrome UA, Accept-Language, Sec-Fetch-* headers) -- still 302-redirects to the generic Overview page rather than serving the chapter, confirming this is a genuine SPA/session-gated block, not a simple bot-UA check. (3) Downloaded and inspected amlegal's compiled JS bundle (main.f0cf9ff473f9b94fb761.js, 3.5MB) for a public content API endpoint -- found only a Firebase key reference, no directly callable REST endpoint; the site's content is served through an authenticated Firebase channel, not a scrapeable API. (4) Attempted a Firecrawl scrape of the same URL -- blocked (Firecrawl account credits exhausted, unrelated to this specific jurisdiction). (5) Downloaded and searched Price City's 2026 Business License Application in full for any sign-permit fee figure -- it contains zero dollar amounts anywhere, only a reference to 'applicable licensing fees' without a table. No new dollar figure was recovered; Chapter 3.24 remains real and almost certainly contains the answer, but is now confirmed inaccessible through every available automated channel -- a live browser session (not available in this environment) or a direct call/records request to the City Recorder is the only remaining path. A third re-chase on 2026-07-23 tried the previously-unavailable live-browser path plus a new document target: (1) a genuine Playwright-backed browser session (Claude Browser pane) was opened against the same amlegal Chapter 3.24 URL specifically to test client-side app routing beyond what curl/WebFetch/Firecrawl can do -- the session itself hit an environment-level rendering failure (0x0 viewport, screenshot and accessibility-tree reads returned empty even on a plain https://example.com control page, and a fresh tab could not be opened), so this was a genuine infrastructure outage, not a new confirmation of amlegal's block; the live-browser avenue remains untested rather than exhausted. (2) Price City's FY2027 Approved Budget (priceutah.gov/uploads/1/1/9/7/119716550/2027_fiscal_year_approved_budget.pdf, published since the last chase) was fetched and read in full by direct PDF text extraction -- it contains only an aggregate 'LICENSES & PERMITS' revenue-category total ($92,350/$90,000), no itemized fee schedule or sign-specific line, and zero mentions of 'sign' or 'Chapter 3.24.' No new dollar figure was recovered; the fee remains genuinely inaccessible through this session's tools -- Chapter 3.24 (or a direct call/records request to the City Recorder) is still the correct target for a future pass with working browser rendering.
Established by resolution of the Price City Council — specific dollar amount not found in any Price City or Carbon County fee schedule published online as of this check
Re-inspection FeePrice City Land Use Development and Management Code § 4.10: a re-inspection fee is charged to defray re-inspection costs after a notice of violation, 'for each inspection required until compliance ... has occurred.' Amount 'established by resolution of the City Council' — not found in a published fee schedule.
Amount not published; charged per notice-of-violation re-inspection
Review timeline
Plan reviewPrice’s published plan-review target
1–60 business days
Inspection process
- 1
Initial / Completion Inspection
Per § 4.6, the Building Official or Zoning Administrator makes an initial inspection upon completion, erection, reconstruction, or remodeling of a sign to verify compliance.
See the full Price inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →
Tips
- Price City's Land Use Development and Management Code § 4.9 sets a hard issuance deadline: the Zoning Administrator must issue a compliant sign permit within 60 days of receiving the application.
- PermitBase could not confirm the actual dollar fee for a Price City sign permit from any published source — the ordinance points to a Council-set fee schedule that doesn't appear to be published online with a sign line item. Confirm the fee directly with Price City Planning & Zoning before budgeting.
- Some sign types and activities are exempt from the permit requirement entirely, including small temporary on-premise signs (≤14 days), real estate 'for sale'/'for rent' signs, temporary election/yard-sale signs, interior signs, and construction signs (≤45 sq ft, up for 10 days pre-construction to 1 day post-completion) — see § 4.5.9 for the full exemption list.
- Price contracts its building permit review and inspection to Carbon County (carbon.utah.gov) — but the Sign Permit itself is administered by the Price City Zoning Administrator per the city's own Land Use code, not by the county.
- Sign regulations vary by overlay district: S-1 (Residential), S-2 (Downtown/Shopping Centers), S-3 (Arterial/State Highways) — confirm which district your site falls in before designing a sign.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, for most signs. Price City Land Use Development and Management Code § 4.9 requires a sign permit issued by the Zoning Administrator before erecting, reconstructing, or remodeling a sign, with some exemptions (temporary signs, real estate signs, interior signs, etc. — see § 4.5.9). The Zoning Administrator must issue a compliant permit within 60 days of application.
The exact fee is set by Price City Council resolution per § 4.9, but PermitBase could not find that dollar figure published in any Price City or Carbon County fee schedule online. Contact Price City Planning & Zoning directly for the current fee.
Price's published plan-review target for a sign permit is 1–60 business days.
You'll need: Sign Permit Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.
Price requires 1 inspection(s) for a sign permit, in order: Initial / Completion Inspection. Schedule each through Carbon County Building & Planning Department (Building Division) — serves Price City; Price City itself has NO independent building-permit function ((435) 636-3260 (Building Division main line / Administrative Assistant); (435) 636-3261 (Director of Building & Planning)).
Apply through Carbon County Building & Planning Department (Building Division) — serves Price City; Price City itself has NO independent building-permit function at 751 East 100 North, Suite 2600, Price, UT 84501. Phone: (435) 636-3260 (Building Division main line / Administrative Assistant); (435) 636-3261 (Director of Building & Planning), email: planning@carbon.utah.gov. Office hours: Mon–Thu 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Fri 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Building Department-specific hours per the county's own Building Permits FAQ; distinct from general County Administration hours of Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM). Official information: https://www.carbon.utah.gov/service/building-permits/.
Price, Utah has adopted: GOVERNING LAW: Utah Code § 15A-2-103 (le.utah.gov/xcode/Title15A/Chapter2/15A-2-S103.html), version effective 7/1/2026 (amended by Ch. 47, 2026 General Session), sets the statewide-mandatory construction code suite — Utah Code § 15A-1-204 binds 'the state and each political subdivision,' which includes Carbon County as the compliance agency serving Price City (Price has no independent building-permit authority; see localAmendments). Carbon County's own Building Permits page ('What codes are enforced?' FAQ) still displays the pre-7/1/2026 edition list; re-checked live 2026-07-16, page text is byte-identical to the 2026-07-08 fetch ('2021 International Building Code, including Appendix J 2021 International Residential Code 2021-Appendix Q of 2021 IRC 2021 IPC, 2021 IMC, 2021 IFGC, 2020 NEC'). State law governs regardless of the page's lag; each line below states current law first, then the county's as-published (stale or omitted) text.; 2024 International Building Code (IBC), including Appendix J — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a), effective 7/1/2026. Carbon County's Building Permits FAQ still lists '2021 International Building Code, including Appendix J' (live re-check 2026-07-16).; 2021 International Residential Code (IRC), including Appendix Q — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(b)/(c); this edition did NOT change in the 7/1/2026 flip. Matches Carbon County's FAQ, which lists '2021 International Residential Code, 2021-Appendix Q of 2021 IRC' (live re-check 2026-07-16).; 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(d), effective 7/1/2026. Carbon County's FAQ still lists '2021 IPC' (live re-check 2026-07-16).; 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(e), effective 7/1/2026. Carbon County's FAQ still lists '2021 IMC' (live re-check 2026-07-16).; 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(f), effective 7/1/2026. Carbon County's FAQ still lists '2021 IFGC' (live re-check 2026-07-16).; 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(g); this edition did NOT change in the 7/1/2026 flip. Carbon County's FAQ still lists '2020 NEC' (live re-check 2026-07-16) — this is a PRE-EXISTING discrepancy that predates and is unrelated to the 2026-07-01 code-cycle flip (the 2023 NEC has been state law since before this project's original 2026-07-08 review); reported here as-published rather than corrected.; 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), one statewide edition (no residential/commercial split) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(h), effective 7/1/2026. Not mentioned anywhere on Carbon County's Building Permits FAQ, Building Department page, or Building Information/Resources page as of live re-check 2026-07-16; added here as a statute-sourced omission (applies statewide regardless of county publication), not fabricated.; 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(i), effective 7/1/2026. Not mentioned on any Carbon County page reviewed as of live re-check 2026-07-16; added as a statute-sourced omission.; Residential provisions of the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC) — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(n), effective 7/1/2026. Not mentioned on any Carbon County page reviewed as of live re-check 2026-07-16; added as a statute-sourced omission.; Modular Building Institute (MBI) Standards 1200 and 1205 — per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(o), statewide-mandated for modular units. Not mentioned on any Carbon County page reviewed as of live re-check 2026-07-16; added as a statute-sourced omission.; No International Fire Code (IFC) entry: § 15A-2-103 does not adopt the IFC — it is separately governed under Title 15A Chapter 5, outside the scope of this section. Carbon County's FAQ does not list an IFC edition either, so there is no mis-citation to correct here.. Local amendments apply — see the Price overview page for the full list.
Sources & verification
Key facts verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-07-20.
Fees, timelines, and adopted codes are researched from each jurisdiction's published records — see how we verify. Requirements change and vary by project, so always confirm the current details with the Price building department before you submit. PermitBase is an independent reference and is not affiliated with any government agency.
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