Solar PV / Solar Panel Installation Permit — Unincorporated Wayne County, Utah · Requirements sheet
Reviewed 2026-07-21 · Source: https://waynecountyutah.gov/uploads/building-permit-application.pdf
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Solar PV / Solar Panel Installation Permit in Unincorporated Wayne County, Utah
Wayne County publishes no distinct solar or solar-PV installation permit type, fee, or checklist anywhere on its site — not on the county-offices page, the Official Documents & Links listing, the Administrative Manual, the FY2026 budget, or in the archived history of the county domain. Solar PV installation is treated as standard construction and electrical work under the county's single unified 'Application for Building Permit and/or Certificate of Occupancy' form, handled by the same county-wide Building Inspector (Eric Torgerson) as every other permit type here. The form's trade-contractor lines are Permittee, Architect/Engineer, Building Contractor, Electrician, Plumber, and Heating — there is no solar or photovoltaic-specific line item or checkbox. As with every other permit type in this entry, Wayne County has not published a dollar fee schedule: the Rate, Permit Fee, and Plan Review Fee fields on the application are left blank and completed by county staff at intake.
Reviewed 2026-07-21 · Source
When you need this permit
- Installation of a rooftop or ground-mount solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a residential or commercial property in unincorporated Wayne County — submitted through the same unified Building Permit Application used for all construction and repair work (via the 'Alteration' or 'Addition' project-type checkbox)
- Proof of ownership of property
- Compliance with the 2024 IBC/IRC structural provisions and the 2023 NEC (National Electrical Code Article 690, Solar Photovoltaic Systems), which govern statewide per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a)-(b) and (1)(g)
- Electrical work must be performed by, or under the supervision of, a licensed electrical contractor listed on the Building Permit Application's 'Electrician' trade line
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Inspection process
- 1
Rough Electrical
After electrical is in place, but before covering — per the county's standard inspection sequence documented in the residential-building-permit entry.
- 2
Electrical Final
Final electrical inspection.
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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 record, 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).
- Wayne County publishes no distinct solar permit, form, or fee. Nothing appears on the county-offices page, in the Official Documents & Links listing of uploaded PDFs, in the Administrative Manual, or in the FY2026 budget.
- Wayne County publishes no building-permit fee figures anywhere. On the county's building-permit-application.pdf, the 'Rate / Permit Fee / Plan Review Fee / Amount Paid / Total' lines are genuinely blank underscored fields on the real form. The county's budget resolutions (reslution-12-15-2025-2026-budget.pdf and reslution-2025-06-amending-2025-budget.pdf) 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. In the county's Administrative Manual, every 'Fee Amount: $' occurrence (20 instances covering every land-use and building-related application type in the manual, not just Chapter 14/15) is blank with no dollar figure filled in. Note on the manual's numbering: 'APPLICATION FEE AND REVIEW FEE SCHEDULES' is Chapter 14 and 'APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION REVIEW PROCEDURES' is Chapter 15 (a source citation below pairing 'Chapter 15' with 'Application Fee and Review Fee Schedules' has the chapter number and title paired incorrectly — a citation labeling error, not a substantive one, since neither chapter contains a dollar figure). An independently archived October 2025 copy of the same building-permit-application.pdf is identical and equally blank, and the only other fee-related documents in the domain's archives (citation-and-court-fees.pdf and wayne-county-recorder-fees-2019-.pdf) are unrelated court/recorder fee schedules with no building-permit content. No Wayne-County-specific building-permit dollar figure is published by any source. Confidence remains 'partial' because the underlying fact is an absence, not because the record is incomplete.
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