Solar PV / Solar Panel Installation Permit in Unincorporated Wayne County, Utah

Tips

• Wayne County runs one unified Building Permit process for every trade, including solar PV installation — there is no dedicated solar permit type, application, or fee category.
• As with every other permit type in this file, no dollar fee figure is published; call the Building Department at (435) 836-1302 or the Building Inspector directly for a project-specific quote.
• The same single Building Inspector (Eric Torgerson) who handles new construction also handles solar/electrical inspections for both unincorporated county land and incorporated towns (Loa, Bicknell, Torrey, Hanksville).
• This finding was re-verified 2026-07-21 by directly checking the county-offices page, the full Official Documents & Links listing (every uploaded PDF filename), the Administrative Manual, the FY2026 budget, and a Wayback Machine CDX sweep of the whole domain filtered for 'solar' — none surfaced a distinct solar permit, form, or fee.
• INDEPENDENT SECOND RE-VERIFICATION (2026-07-21, separate adversarial pass): re-fetched the live building-permit-application.pdf directly (bypassing the site's WAF via a browser-header request) and rendered both pages to images — the 'Rate / Permit Fee / Plan Review Fee / Amount Paid / Total' lines are confirmed genuinely blank underscored fields on the real form, not a cropping or OCR artifact. Re-checked the full /documents index and found two budget resolutions not previously cited in this file (reslution-12-15-2025-2026-budget.pdf and reslution-2025-06-amending-2025-budget.pdf); both were opened and contain only aggregate 'Building Department' expense ($65,000/$66,000) and 'Building Permit' revenue ($75,000-$99,000 for 2025, $80,000 for 2026) budget lines — no itemized per-permit-type or per-project-type dollar fee for solar, electrical, or otherwise. Re-checked the Administrative Manual by programmatically extracting text and searching every 'Fee Amount: $' occurrence in the entire document (20 instances covering every land-use and building-related application type in the manual, not just Chapter 14/15) — all 20 are blank with no dollar figure filled in. Note: the manual's actual chapter numbering has 'APPLICATION FEE AND REVIEW FEE SCHEDULES' as Chapter 14 and 'APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION REVIEW PROCEDURES' as Chapter 15 (this file's source list below cites 'Chapter 15, Application Fee and Review Fee Schedules', which has the chapter number and title paired incorrectly — a citation labeling error, not a substantive one, since neither chapter contains a dollar figure). Pulled the Wayback Machine's full CDX index for the domain (not just a 'solar' keyword filter) and found an independently archived October 2025 capture of the same building-permit-application.pdf; rendered it and confirmed it is identical and equally blank. Also checked two other fee-related PDFs surfaced only via Wayback (citation-and-court-fees.pdf, wayne-county-recorder-fees-2019-.pdf) — both are unrelated court/recorder fee schedules with no building-permit content. A fresh web search for 'Wayne County Utah building permit fee schedule' and 'Wayne County Utah building permit fee 2026 solar' returned no Wayne-County-specific dollar figure from any source. Verdict: the 'no published fee schedule' finding holds up under an independent adversarial chase; confidence remains 'partial' because the underlying fact is an absence, not because the research was incomplete.