Title 10 Chapter 20 Part 10 Section 1001

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Index	Utah Code
Title 10	Utah Municipal Code
Chapter 20	Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act
Part 10	Enforcement
Section 1001	Enforcement -- Limitations on a municipality's ability to enforce an ordinance by withholding a permit or certificate. *(Effective 5/6/2026)*

Effective 5/6/2026
10-20-1001. Enforcement -- Limitations on a municipality's ability to enforce an ordinance by withholding a permit or certificate.

(1)

(a)

A municipality or a land use applicant may, in addition to other remedies provided by law, institute:

(i)	injunctions, mandamus, abatement, or any other appropriate actions; or

(ii)	proceedings to prevent, enjoin, abate, or remove the unlawful building, use, or act.

(b)	A municipality need only establish the violation to obtain the injunction.

(2)

(a)	Except as provided in Subsections (3) through (6), a municipality may enforce the municipality's ordinance by withholding a building permit or certificate of occupancy.

(b)	It is an infraction to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, or change the use of any building or other structure within a municipality without approval of a building permit.

(c)	A municipality may not issue a building permit unless the plans of and for the proposed erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, or use fully conform to all regulations then in effect.

(d)	A municipality may require an applicant to maintain and repair a temporary fire apparatus road during the construction of a structure accessed by the temporary fire apparatus road in accordance with the municipality's adopted standards.

(e)	A municipality may require temporary signs to be installed at each street intersection once construction of a new roadway allows passage by a motor vehicle.

(f)	A municipality may adopt and enforce any appendix of the International Fire Code, 2021 Edition.

(3)

(a)

A municipality may not deny an applicant a building permit or certificate of occupancy because the applicant has not completed an infrastructure improvement:

(i)	unless the infrastructure improvement is essential to meet the requirements for the issuance of a building permit or certificate of occupancy under Title 15A, State Construction and Fire Codes Act; and

(ii)	for which the municipality has accepted an improvement completion assurance for a public landscaping improvement, as defined in Section 10-20-807, or an infrastructure improvement for the development.

(b)

For purposes of Subsection (3)(a)(i), notwithstanding Section 15A-5-205.6, infrastructure improvement that is essential means:

(i)

for a building permit:

(A)	operable fire hydrants installed in a manner that is consistent with the municipality's adopted engineering standards; and

(B)	for temporary roads used during construction, a properly compacted road base installed in a manner consistent with the municipality's adopted engineering standards;

(ii)

for a certificate of occupancy, at the discretion of the municipality, at least one of the following:

(A)	a permanent road;

(B)	a temporary road covered with asphalt or concrete; or

(C)	another method for accessing a structure consistent with Appendix D of the International Fire Code; and

(iii)

public infrastructure necessary for the health, life, and safety of the occupant.

(c)	A municipality may not adopt an engineering standard that requires an applicant to install a permanent road or a temporary road with asphalt or concrete before receiving a building permit.

(4)

A municipality may not deny an applicant a building permit or certificate of occupancy for failure to:

(a)	submit a private landscaping plan, as defined in Section 10-20-807; or

(b)	complete a landscaping improvement that is not a public landscaping improvement, as defined in Section 10-20-807.

(5)

A municipality may not withhold a building permit based on the lack of completion of a portion of a public sidewalk to be constructed within a public right-of-way serving a lot where a single-family or two-family residence or town home is proposed in a building permit application if an improvement completion assurance has been posted for the incomplete portion of the public sidewalk.

(6)

A municipality may not prohibit the construction of a single-family or two-family residence or town home, withhold recording a plat, or withhold acceptance of a public landscaping improvement, as defined in Section 10-20-807, or an infrastructure improvement based on the lack of installation of a public sidewalk if an improvement completion assurance has been posted for the public sidewalk.

(7)	A municipality may not redeem an improvement completion assurance securing the installation of a public sidewalk sooner than 18 months after the date the improvement completion assurance is posted.

(8)

A municipality shall allow an applicant to post an improvement completion assurance for a public sidewalk separate from an improvement completion assurance for:

(a)	another infrastructure improvement; or

(b)	a public landscaping improvement, as defined in Section 10-20-807.

(9)

A municipality may withhold a certificate of occupancy for a single-family or two-family residence or town home until the portion of the public sidewalk to be constructed within a public right-of-way and located immediately adjacent to the single-family or two-family residence or town home is completed and accepted by the municipality.

Amended by Chapter 166, 2026 General Session

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