Plain City building permits

Building department

Address

4160 W 2200 N, Plain City, UT 84404

Phone

(801) 731-4908

Office hours

Mon–Thurs 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Fri 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM noon; closed Saturday and Sunday

Website

Official site

Permit portal

Apply online at Plain City's portal

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Plain City — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.

Codes adopted

Utah adopts construction codes statewide under Utah Code Title 15A (State Construction and Fire Codes Act), enforced by every jurisdiction. Chapter 4 of Title 15A codifies Legislature-enacted amendments for specific named jurisdictions (e.g., Park City, Salt Lake City, Sandy City) as part of the state construction code. Through June 30, 2026, the editions in force under Utah Code § 15A-2-103 are the 2021 IBC (with Appendices C and J), 2021 IRC, 2021 IPC, 2021 IMC, 2021 IFGC, 2021 IECC, 2021 IEBC, and 2021 ISPSC (residential provisions), together with the 2023 NEC. Effective July 1, 2026, § 15A-2-103 adopts the 2024 editions of the IBC, IPC, IMC, IFGC, IECC, IEBC, and ISPSC; the IRC remains the 2021 edition and the NEC remains the 2023 edition. Note: residential energy requirements are modified by statewide amendments, and several Utah jurisdictions document their residential energy provisions at the 2015 IECC level rather than the adopted IECC year — confirm the applicable residential energy code with your local jurisdiction. Always confirm the edition in force with your local jurisdiction.

• International Building Code (IBC) — adopted per Plain City Code § 9-1-1(A) pursuant to Utah Code Annotated § 58-56-4(2) and Utah Administrative Code R156-56-701, as modified by chapter 11 of the supplement to the IBC… Show full textShow less

  International Building Code (IBC) — adopted per Plain City Code § 9-1-1(A) pursuant to Utah Code Annotated § 58-56-4(2) and Utah Administrative Code R156-56-701, as modified by chapter 11 of the supplement to the IBC promulgated by the International Code Council, and amended per statewide amendments in Utah Administrative Code R156-56-704 (automatically updated per § 9-1-1(C) whenever the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing/Uniform Building Code Commission adopts new statewide amendments). Per Utah Code § 15A-2-103, the statewide-adopted edition is the 2024 IBC (including Appendices C and J), which took effect July 1, 2026 and supersedes the prior 2021 IBC edition (effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026) — Plain City's automatic-adoption clause carries this forward without any local ordinance action required.

• International Residential Code (IRC) — adopted by reference within IBC standards per Plain City Code § 9-1-1(A) ('...together with standards incorporated into the IBC by reference, including...the international… Show full textShow less

  International Residential Code (IRC) — adopted by reference within IBC standards per Plain City Code § 9-1-1(A) ('...together with standards incorporated into the IBC by reference, including...the international residential code (IRC) promulgated by the International Code Council'). The statewide-adopted edition is the 2021 IRC per Utah Code § 15A-2-103; the 2026-07-01 statewide IBC transition to the 2024 edition did NOT carry the IRC forward, so 2021 remains current.

• International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — adopted by reference within IBC standards per Plain City Code § 9-1-1(A). Show full textShow less

  International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — adopted by reference within IBC standards per Plain City Code § 9-1-1(A). Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(h) specifies the current statewide-adopted edition as the 2024 IECC. Plain City's Residential Building Permit Plan Submittal Requirements (Doc 475) additionally requires a REScheck energy analysis report showing compliance with the model energy code, passing by a minimum of 3% if using the Utah Energy Conservation Method.

• Statewide plumbing, mechanical, and electrical codes (IPC/IMC/NEC) apply uniformly across Utah municipalities under the State Construction Code (Utah Code Title 15A), and Plain City's own municipal code does not separately codify them. Show full textShow less

  Statewide plumbing, mechanical, and electrical codes (IPC/IMC/NEC) apply uniformly across Utah municipalities under the State Construction Code (Utah Code Title 15A), and Plain City's own municipal code does not separately codify them. Plain City's plan submittal checklists (Docs 475, Accessory Building Doc) require electrical, plumbing, and mechanical plans as part of the IRC-governed construction drawings, consistent with statewide adoption rather than a distinct local ordinance.

Permit types & fees

• Residential Building Permit

  Required for new single-family and two-family residential construction and any work regulated by the adopted IRC/IBC in Plain City. Plain City's Building Department (independent of Weber County — staffed by its own Building Inspector) reviews plans against a detailed published submittal checklist. No dollar-figure valuation-based fee table is restated in the city's standalone Consolidated Fee Schedule (Resolution #2024-07); the actual governing fee mechanism is Plain City Municipal Code § 9-1-4, 'FEE SCHEDULE,' which adopts Table 1-A of the 1997 Uniform Building Code as the valuation-based fee table for all IBC-authorized building permits citywide — the same mechanism that governs the Solar PV, Fire Sprinkler, and Fire Alarm Permit entries — see the fees array for the full table.

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• Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit (DADU) Permit

  Required for a Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit in Plain City — a detached structure, or a unit above/behind a detached garage, associated with a single-family dwelling. Governed by Plain City Code § 10-21 (adopted by Ord. 2022-10, 7-21-2022). Requires staff approval prior to issuance of the underlying building permit.

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• Commercial Building Permit

  Required for new commercial construction in Plain City. Plain City requires Planning Commission approval of a Non-Residential Site Plan as a prerequisite to the building permit itself — the city publishes a detailed site plan checklist and a $200 Site Plan filing fee. No dollar-figure valuation-based commercial building permit fee table is restated in Plain City's Consolidated Fee Schedule; instead — as with the Residential Building Permit entry — Plain City Municipal Code § 9-1-4, 'FEE SCHEDULE,' adopts Table 1-A of the 1997 Uniform Building Code as the valuation-based fee table for all IBC-authorized building permits citywide — see the fees list for the full table.

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• Commercial Tenant Improvement / Tenant Finish Permit

  Required for tenant improvement / minor remodel work in an existing commercial building in Plain City where the use does not change. Plain City's process for this scope is its 'Site Plan Application (Existing Commercial Building - same use, minimal remodeling)' — a faster-track site plan review (7-day advance submittal) than the Non-Residential Site Plan Plat Checklist required for new commercial construction (30-day advance submittal). The base building-permit fee for this scope of work is governed by Plain City Municipal Code § 9-1-4 (Table 1-A of the 1997 Uniform Building Code) — the same mechanism as the jurisdiction's other building-permit fees — see the fees array for the full table.

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• Sign Permit

  Plain City requires a sign permit from the Chief Building Official before any sign is erected, maintained, or remodeled on public or private property, per City Code § 10-12-5(J). The city's Sign Regulations chapter (Title 10, Chapter 12) sets detailed size, copy-area, clearance, and location standards, but Plain City's published Consolidated Fee Schedule does not break out a distinct dollar sign-permit fee — sign permits appear to be assessed under the same Council-set fee structure as other zoning/building permits.

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• Solar PV Installation Permit

  Plain City has a genuinely distinct Residential Solar Photovoltaic (PV) System Plan Submittal Requirements checklist (Doc 476) — a separate, solar-specific plan submittal list distinct from the general Residential Building Permit checklist (Doc 475) — but the underlying permit is still applied for and issued as a standard Building Permit Application through the city's Online Building Permit Portal, not as a separately named or separately priced permit type. No distinct dollar-figure solar-specific fee line is published, and Plain City's Consolidated Fee Schedule (Resolution #2024-07, Exhibit A, revision 06/06/2024) has no 'solar,' 'photovoltaic,' 'PV,' or general building-permit valuation line item anywhere in it. The actual governing fee mechanism sits in the municipal code instead: Plain City Municipal Code § 9-1-4, 'FEE SCHEDULE' (Title 9, Building Code, amd. Ord. 2025-08, 6-19-2025), expressly adopts Table 1-A of the 1997 Uniform Building Code as the valuation-based fee table governing all IBC-authorized building permit fees citywide — it is simply incorporated by reference in the municipal code rather than restated in the standalone Consolidated Fee Schedule resolution. See the fees array for the full table.

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• EV Charger / EVSE Permit

  Plain City has no distinct EV charger/EVSE permit type, and no dedicated Electrical Permit type either — EV charger/EVSE installation is electrical work that falls under the city's general Residential Building Permit, submitted through the same Online Building Permit Portal. Plain City's Fee Schedule (Resolution #2024-07, Exhibit A) contains no 'EV,' 'electric vehicle,' or 'EVSE' mention anywhere in the document, and no base building-permit fee is restated there at all. Plain City Municipal Code § 9-1-4, 'FEE SCHEDULE,' adopts Table 1-A of the 1997 Uniform Building Code as the valuation-based fee table governing all IBC-authorized building permits citywide, and since an EV charger permit is issued as that same Building Permit, the same fee mechanism applies — see the fees array for the full table.

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• Fire Sprinkler System Permit

  Plain City has no distinct fire-sprinkler-specific permit application, portal, or fee schedule — a full search of the Building Department page, the Forms & Applications page (12 Buildings-category documents, none fire-related), the Consolidated Fee Schedule (Resolution #2024-07, Exhibit A), and Plain City Code Title 4, Chapter 1 (Fire Department — purely administrative fire-chief-duties provisions, §§4-1-1 through 4-1-5) turned up no fire-sprinkler permit, checklist, or dollar fee anywhere on plaincityutah.gov. The underlying legal requirement is real, however: Utah's State Fire Code Act (Utah Code Title 15A, Chapter 5) adopts the 2024 International Fire Code (IFC) for statewide application (§15A-5-103), defines the enforcing 'AHJ' as the State Fire Marshal, an authorized deputy, or 'the local fire enforcement authority' (§15A-5-102(2)) — a role Plain City's own independent Fire Chief fills, since Plain City is confirmed NOT a member of the Weber Fire District that serves several neighboring Weber County cities — and a 2015-enacted statewide IFC amendment (§15A-5-202(1)(c)) requires that 'fire sprinkler system layout shall be prepared and submitted by a person certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies [NICET] at level III or IV in Water-Based System Layout.' Because Plain City publishes no separate fire-permit intake of any kind, and its only published construction-permit channel is the Online Building Permit Portal (the same one used for the general Building Permit, Solar PV Permit, and EV Charger Permit entries in this record), a fire sprinkler installation is submitted through that same portal as a Building Permit Application, whose fee is governed — per the same finding already made for the Solar PV Permit entry in this record — by Plain City Municipal Code §9-1-4, which adopts Table 1-A of the 1997 Uniform Building Code as the valuation-based fee table for 'fees authorized in the IBC for inspections, permits, certificates and other purposes' (the IBC's own Chapter 9, Fire Protection Systems, governs sprinkler system design/installation as part of the building code).

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• Fire Alarm System Permit

  Plain City has no distinct fire-alarm-specific permit application, portal, or fee schedule — no fire-alarm permit, checklist, or dollar fee is published anywhere on plaincityutah.gov, including the Building Department page, the Forms & Applications page, Consolidated Fee Schedule Resolution #2024-07, and Plain City Code Title 4, Chapter 1, Fire Department. As with fire sprinkler systems, the underlying legal requirement is real: fire alarm and detection systems are regulated under the statewide-adopted 2024 International Fire Code (Utah Code §15A-5-103) and IBC Chapter 9 (Fire Protection Systems), and Utah's statewide IFC amendment at §15A-5-202(1)(c) requires that 'fire alarm system layout shall be prepared and submitted by a person certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies [NICET] at level III or IV in Fire Alarm Systems.' Because Plain City has no separate fire-permit intake, a fire alarm installation is submitted through the same Online Building Permit Portal used for the general Building Permit, Solar PV Permit, and EV Charger Permit, with its fee governed — as with the Solar PV Permit entry — by Municipal Code §9-1-4's adoption of 1997 UBC Table 1-A.

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• Change of Use / Certificate of Occupancy Permit

  Plain City does not publish a standalone 'Change of Use Permit' application, checklist, or fee — no such document appears on the Forms & Applications page or the Consolidated Fee Schedule (Resolution #2024-07). Instead, a change in the use of land or of an existing building is governed by two general provisions of Plain City Code Title 10, Chapter 1: §10-1-7 (Certificate Of Occupancy), which requires that 'no land shall be used or occupied and no building hereafter structurally altered or erected shall be used or in use until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued by the chief building official stating that the building or structure or the proposed use thereof, or the use of land, complies with the provisions of this title,' and §10-1-8 (Issuance Of Licenses And Permits), which bars any city official from issuing a permit or license that would conflict with the zoning title. In practice, a change of use in an existing commercial building is processed through the same 'Site Plan Application (Existing Commercial Building)' track documented in the Commercial Tenant Improvement entry (Doc 508, 7-day advance submittal before a Planning Commission meeting), paired with a Commercial Business License Application (Doc 383) if a business use is involved — that license application independently confirms Site Plan Approval from the Planning Commission is a prerequisite and requires sign-off from both the Fire Marshal and the Building Inspector before issuance. Unlike several other gap entries in this record, a real, distinct, published fee for this exact existing-building site-plan scenario does exist: Plain City's Fee Schedule (Resolution #2024-07, Exhibit A, Filing Fees section) lists 'Site Plan - existing building with no remodel — $100.00,' separate from the $200.00 new-building Site Plan fee, plus the $60.00/year Commercial Business License base fee if a business is being established.

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