Residential Building Permit in Unincorporated Piute County, Utah

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• Piute County has not published a fee schedule, application form, or adopted local amendments online — the county's 'Building Ordinance,' 'Printable Forms,' and 'Pre 1976 Manufactured Housing' subpages on piute.gov are all unpopulated template placeholder text as of 2026-07-08. Contact the Building Inspector's office directly at (435) 577-2840 for current forms and fees.
• 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.
• Piute County is reported by outside legal research (BYU Law Library guide to Utah county codes online) as the only Utah county with no ordinances published on a code-hosting platform (e.g., American Legal Publishing / Sterling Codifiers) — the full text of Title 7 is not publicly available online; only the permit-requirement citation is quoted on the county's own site.
• Under Utah Code § 17-79-810(4)(a) (effective 11/6/2025), for a one- or two-family dwelling or townhome, the county must complete plan review within 14 business days after the 3-business-day application-completeness screening period ends — giving an effective statutory floor of roughly 14-21 business days total, absent a county-published faster SLA.
• Solar PV installations would fall under this same general Building Permit — the county's Obtaining a Building Permit page lists 'electrical, gas, mechanical, or plumbing system work' among the categories requiring a permit, but Piute County has published no solar-specific fee, form, or process online (consistent with the broader lack of a published fee schedule for any permit type in this county as of 2026-07-19).
• EV charger / EVSE installation would fall under this same general Building Permit — Piute County's Obtaining a Building Permit page lists 'electrical, gas, mechanical, or plumbing system work' among the categories requiring a permit, but Piute County has published no EV-specific fee, form, or process online, consistent with the county's broader lack of any published dollar-amount fee schedule for any permit type.
• The Building Inspector's 'Printable Forms' and 'Building Ordinance' subpages on piute.gov remain unpopulated placeholder text (the site has also renamed its page slugs — the old '/printable-forms/' path now 404s and redirects visitors through a 'rename-04' slug). Utah Code § 17-53-211 requires every county commission to adopt an ordinance establishing a consolidated fee schedule (a requirement quoted, for example, in a parallel Grand County ordinance's recital), and that statute is the state-law hook behind the Commission-resolution requirement noted in the Certificate-of-Occupancy and Sign Permit entries — but no such ordinance or resulting dollar figure is published for Piute County: the Utah Public Notice Website (utah.gov/pmn) surfaces none, a piute.gov site search for 'fee' surfaces only property-tax payment fees, the county's own 'Budget' page carries general-fund boilerplate with no attached fee-schedule PDF, and Piute County is not hosted on Municode, American Legal, or Sterling Codifiers. Contact the Building Inspector's office directly at (435) 577-2840 for current forms and fees.