Commercial Building Permit — Unincorporated Piute County, Utah · Requirements sheet
Reviewed 2026-08-02 · Source: https://piute.gov/your-government/county-departments/building-inspector/obtaining-a-building-permit/
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Commercial Building Permit in Unincorporated Piute County, Utah
Required for new commercial construction in unincorporated Piute County under the same general permit requirement documented on the Residential Building Permit entry — Piute County Code Title 7, Chapter 7-1D (Ord. 10-286, adopted January 31, 2011) requires 'any owner or authorized agent who intends to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish, or change the occupancy of a building or structure' to obtain a permit, with no separate commercial-specific ordinance, application, checklist, or fee schedule published anywhere on piute.gov. This is Utah's least-populous county (~1,400-1,870 residents), and its online presence for the Building Inspector department is limited to the same unpopulated template pages already documented for the residential entry.
Reviewed 2026-08-02 · Source
When you need this permit
- New commercial construction, or any structural modification, alteration, repair, or change of occupancy of a commercial building or structure, in unincorporated Piute County
- Application obtained directly from the Building Inspector's office — no downloadable form is published online as of 2026-07-19
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- Piute County has not published a fee schedule, commercial-specific application form, or adopted local commercial amendments online — the county's 'Building Ordinance,' 'Printable Forms,' and other Building Inspector subpages on piute.gov remain unpopulated template placeholder text as of 2026-07-19, the same finding already documented for residential permits in this record. Contact the Building Inspector's office directly at (435) 577-2840 for current forms, fees, and process for a commercial project.
- Violation of the building-permit requirement is a Class B Misdemeanor under Piute County Code, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine (Utah Code § 76-3-301) or 6 months in jail (Utah Code § 76-3-204(2)), with each day of violation treated as a separate offense — applies equally to unpermitted commercial construction.
- Piute County publishes no commercial fee or form — the same gap documented on the Residential Building Permit entry. The Building Inspector's subpages (under their current, renamed URLs) carry placeholder content only, and while Utah Code § 17-53-211 requires a county-commission fee-schedule ordinance, no resulting Piute County ordinance or fee figure is published via the Utah Public Notice Website, the county's own Budget page, or the Municode/American Legal/Sterling Codifiers libraries. Contact the Building Inspector's office directly at (435) 577-2840 for current commercial forms and fees.
- No fee, form, or timeline is published for this permit type. Utah Code § 17-79-810's day-count subsections are both residential-only (see reviewTimelineNote for the exact quoted text), and Piute County Zoning Ordinance Chapter 6 (Building Official) contains no business-day plan-review timeline anywhere for any permit type. Piute County also shows no evidence of contracting plan review out to a neighboring county or private firm (the pattern found in Nephi/Richfield/Price) — the bordering Beaver County building department page reflects no such arrangement, and the Utah Public Notice Website's Piute County Commission public-body page lists no fee-schedule or building-contract notice.
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