Residential Building Permit in Unincorporated Sevier County, Utah

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• Sevier County's official Building Permit page states verbatim: 'No building shall be erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, improved, converted, or demolished unless a permit for each project has been obtained...Failure to obtain the necessary permit prior to beginning work will result in an investigation fee being added to the cost of the permit fee...(double fee).'
• Apply for building permits in unincorporated Sevier County online at utah.cityinspect.com — the same CityInspect portal used by other Utah jurisdictions, including Richfield City.
• New residential construction in the unincorporated county requires the 'Unincorporated Area Signature Sheet' (dated Feb 2026) with sign-offs from Planning/Zoning/Flood ((435) 893-0420), the Road Department (Brodie Bagley/Wesley Bywater, (435) 896-4831) for road encroachment and addressing, the Utah State Division of Water Rights ((435) 896-2557, requiring a copy of the 'Order of State Engineer' as proof of water), Central Utah Health Department ((435) 896-5451) for septic, the applicable power utility, and the applicable gas utility (or write 'PROPANE' if not using Enbridge).
• No dedicated residential building-permit fee amount or valuation-based fee table could be independently verified as of 2026-07-08: the only 'Fee Schedule.pdf' publicly linked from the county's Planning and Zoning page is Appendix C of the Land Use ordinance, covering zoning/land-use fees (Board of Adjustment appeal, conditional use permit, PUD, subdivision, temporary use, zoning change, etc.) — it contains no building-permit valuation fee table. County Commission Resolution 2025-3-1 ('Updating the County Fee Schedule,' adopted 3/24/2025) is referenced in the March 24, 2025 Commission Minutes but its exhibit/attachment with itemized fee amounts was not independently locatable on the county's website or in Utah's public notice archive. The 2025 Adopted County Budget shows aggregate 'Building Permits' revenue (~$550,000 budgeted) but no itemized per-permit-type fee schedule. Fees field is intentionally left empty rather than fabricated — contact the Building Department at (435) 893-0420 for current fee amounts.
• No building-permit fee schedule for Sevier County is published anywhere online: (a) the utah.cityinspect.com portal used for all Sevier County building-permit applications gates every page behind account login — no public fee-schedule page exists on it; (b) the sevier.utah.gov domain and its 'Building - Planning - Zoning' section carry no building-permit fee PDF beyond the zoning-only Fee Schedule.pdf; (c) the county's own posted agenda packet for the March 24, 2025 Commission meeting (cms3.revize.com/revize/seviercounty/agendas%20and%20minutes/2025/Commission/250324cm.agnda.pdf) lists 'Consider Resolution updating County Fee Schedule' as a 5-minute agenda item with no exhibit attached; (d) Fee Schedule.pdf (a scanned, non-OCR'd image) contains only Appendix C zoning/land-use line items, no building-permit figures; (e) Sevier County Code Chapter 35 (Fee Schedules), §§ 35.01-35.04, confirms by the code's own design that department fee schedules ('reasonable fees for items or services,' § 35.01) are approved by County Commission resolution and required to be 'posted and available for public viewing' (§ 35.02(B)) SEPARATELY from the codified ordinance text — its Editor's Note states verbatim 'The fees will be published separately' — meaning no dollar fee table was ever expected to appear in Chapter 150 itself, but the separately-published Building Department fee schedule remains unlocated online. A legacy county domain, sevierutah.net, once hosted a 'Commercial & Residential Project Requirements' page (archived 2019-2020 only, pre-dating the county's 2022 code re-adoption) but is no longer publicly accessible; its stale archived content is not relied on here.
• Permits are also required for projects on scattered parcels — see Sevier County Code § 150.22 (Requirements for Obtaining Building Permits on Scattered Parcels).
• Rooftop solar PV installations fall under this same Residential Building Permit (structural) plus a standard electrical permit (wiring/inverter) — Sevier County's official Building/Planning/Zoning webpages, live-checked 2026-07-19, publish no distinct solar-specific fee schedule or permit type, consistent with the county's broader gap in published building-permit dollar amounts documented above; contact the Building Department at (435) 893-0420 for a project-specific quote.
• EV charger (EVSE) installation is treated as standard electrical work under this same permit — Sevier County's official 'Obtaining a Building Permit' page and Building/Planning/Zoning webpages list no distinct EV-charger or electric-vehicle-charging permit type, fee, or process anywhere on the county's site; a Level 2 charger circuit falls under the 'electrical...alteration' work already covered by this Residential Building Permit. Contact the Building Department at (435) 893-0420 to confirm project-specific requirements.
• NEW 2026-07-23 (live-confirmed via full-text browser render of codelibrary.amlegal.com, which JS-renders section body text not returned to plain fetch tools): Sevier County Code § 150.20(A) defines a regulated 'BUILDING' as any structure exceeding 120 square feet built in the unincorporated county — smaller structures (e.g., small sheds) fall outside this permit requirement entirely. Section 150.20(C) also states verbatim: 'If the building is for a legitimate agricultural use, as determined by the Building Official, there will be no charge for the permit' — a confirmed, sourced fee exemption for agricultural buildings, distinct from the general fee-amount gap documented above for non-agricultural construction.
• Sevier County Code § 150.21 separately regulates enclosed storage containers larger than 120 square feet as ordinary buildings — a building permit must be obtained from the County Building Department before placing or moving such a container onto a property, the exterior must be painted/altered to cover any advertising or lettering, and a temporary-use exemption (not exceeding 90 days) can be obtained from the Building Department.