Residential Building Permit in Unincorporated Wayne County, Utah

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• It is the General Contractor's responsibility to contact the Building Inspector for inspections and to give 24-hour notice, per the county's official Inspection Record instructions.
• Carports, small additions, and buildings on slabs may only need one or two inspections — conditions vary and the contractor should use good judgment in calling for inspections; the Building Inspector fills in which of the listed inspections are required (checked) for each permit.
• The permit becomes null and void if work is not commenced within 180 days, or if construction is suspended or abandoned for 180 days at any time after work has commenced, per the application's terms.
• Occupancy of the structure is prohibited until after the final inspection.
• Wayne County publishes no county-wide dollar fee schedule for building permits — not on the county website and not in the Wayne County Administrative Manual (Ch. 15, Application Fee and Review Fee Schedules). The Administrative Manual's fee schedule forms show blank 'Fee Amount: $___' lines to be filled in per-application, and the Building Permit Application form itself has blank 'Rate ___ Permit Fee ___ Plan Review Fee ___' fields completed by county staff at intake rather than a published rate table. The county's own FY2026 budget shows a single county-wide 'Building Permit' revenue line (10-32-20000, $80,000 budgeted for 2026) and a single 'Building Inspector' expense line (10-4185-310, $65,000 budgeted for 2026) under 'Total Building Department' — one county-wide program with no itemized per-permit-type fee schedule published for public reference. Wayne County itself is not codified on American Legal Publishing or Municode (only the incorporated town of Torrey among Wayne County jurisdictions appears on American Legal Publishing's Utah list; the county's 2011 PDF Administrative Manual/Land Use Ordinance remain its only code). Neither the Utah Public Notice Website (utah.gov/pmn) listings for the Wayne County Commission, nor the county's meeting archive (150+ Commission/Planning & Zoning meetings back to 2019), nor its resolution listing (Fire Ban, Landfill Hours, Data Center Moratorium, Cellular Telephones, Rural Health Care Tax, FY2026 budget resolutions) includes a fee-schedule resolution. Applicants should call (435) 836-1302 or the Building Inspector directly for a fee quote before applying.
• Same building department and inspector serve Loa, Bicknell, Torrey, and Hanksville (per Loa Town's own 'Building Permits & Inspections' page, which lists the identical Building Inspector, Eric Torgerson, and does not describe a separate municipal review process) — applicants in these towns should still expect to use the same county application and inspector.
• Statutory review-timeline floor: under Utah Code § 17-79-810 (effective 11/6/2025, renumbered from former § 17-36-55), once an application for plan review of a one- or two-family dwelling or townhome is determined complete (after a 3-business-day completeness-screening period per § 17-79-810(1)(f) and (3)(a)), the county must complete plan review within 14 business days per § 17-79-810(4)(a). This statutory floor applies because Wayne County has not published its own faster or more specific review-timeline commitment.
• Wayne County has not published a distinct solar-PV permit type, fee, or checklist (checked 2026-07-19, including the county's Documents page and a site search). The county uses a single unified 'Application for Building Permit and/or Certificate of Occupancy' form for all construction and repair work — the form lists an 'Electrician' trade-contractor line and includes 'Rough Electrical'/'Electrical Final' inspection items, with no separate electrical or solar permit category — so solar photovoltaic installations would be submitted through this same Building Permit process.
• EV charger (EVSE) installation is likewise treated as standard electrical work under this same unified Building Permit — the county publishes no distinct EV-charger or electric-vehicle-charging permit type, fee, or checklist anywhere on its site, and the single Building Permit Application form's 'Electrician' trade line and 'Rough Electrical'/'Electrical Final' inspection items are the only electrical-related categories on the form. As with the general fee schedule (see above), no published dollar figure exists — call (435) 836-1302 or the Building Inspector directly for a project-specific fee quote.