Permitting Authorities / Lehi City - Building and Inspections Division
Lehi City - Building and Inspections Division
Adopted code
The building permitting authority for the City of Lehi, Utah's eleventh-largest city by population. Utah's construction codes are adopted by the Legislature in statute (Utah Code 15A-2-103) as a uniform state code with a statutory ceiling (15A-1-204(8)): a political subdivision must follow the State Construction Code and, except as expressly provided in state law, may not adopt or enforce anything more restrictive on a subject the Code addresses. The only local IRC roof-covering amendments the state has ever authorized (Title 15A, Chapter 4, Part 2) are for Park City and Sandy City, both wildfire wood-roof provisions and neither reaching this jurisdiction. Lehi's own Building and Inspections page states, as of this session, that "Current Codes and Design Criteria have changed and will be posted soon," so this record carries no current first-party statement of which edition the City enforces locally, and no design-criteria figures (wind, snow, seismic, ice shield) are published anywhere on the City's site at this time. Lehi's local Title 10 Buildings and Construction code, served by codelibrary.amlegal.com, returned a Cloudflare/access-denied response rather than content to this session. This record also carries Utah's 2026-effective duty (Utah Code 65A-8-203(9)(a), enacted by HB 48) for every municipality to adopt and enforce the 2006 Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code in any area it designates as wildland-urban interface; nothing self-executes, no statewide registry of adopting jurisdictions exists, and no first-party Lehi statement about a WUI designation, adopting ordinance, or declared zone was found this session, so this record does not establish Lehi's WUI position either way. roofing_permit_required, repair_permit_threshold, deck_sheathing_requirements, ice_water_shield_required, midroof_inspection_required and wind_design_criteria are OMITTED: the 2021 IRC's own permit-exemption list (R105.2) and Chapter 8 sheathing provisions have not been opened by this project, Lehi publishes no design-criteria figures at this time, and the City's own Title 10 was not reachable this session. This record also OMITS a roof_layer_limit classification key.
Jurisdiction
City of Lehi, Utah
Address
153 North 100 East, Lehi, UT 84043
Contact
- url: https://www.lehi-ut.gov/departments/building-and-inspections/
- phone: 385-201-1035
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
- state_level: A roofing contractor in Utah must hold a state specialty contractor license before engaging in that trade anywhere in the state. Utah Code 58-55-301(1)(a): "A person engaged in the construction trades licensed under this chapter, as a contractor regulated under this chapter ... shall become licensed under this chapter before engaging in that trade or contracting activity in this state unless specifically exempted." Utah Admin. Code R156-55a-301ai defines the "S280 - Roofing Contractor" specialty classification, covering the application and installation of "asphalt, pitch, tar, felt, flax, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate," any material attached to the roof, and roof conversion; a B100 General Building Contractor or R100 Residential and Small Commercial Contractor may also self-perform this scope. A person doing repair, remodeling or addition work valued under $7,000 including both labor and materials is exempt from licensure (58-55-305(1)(h)(i)); above $3,000 in total project value, an unlicensed exempt person must first file a one-time affirmation with the Division that they carry liability (and, if applicable, workers' compensation) insurance (58-55-305(1)(h)(ii)(H)). Roofing is not among the trade categories Utah law carves out of licensure (electrical, plumbing, gas appliances, water-based fire protection, alarms, HVAC and radon are the named exclusions).
- local_level: Utah law closes this layer by statute. 58-55-301(1)(b)-(c): the state license "and the business license issued by the local jurisdiction ... shall be the only licenses required," and "[n]either the state nor any of its political subdivisions may require of a licensee any additional business licenses, registrations, certifications." Consistent with that bar, Lehi's own Business Licensing page describes a General Business License application (a $140 fee, plus a Sales Tax License Certificate where applicable) and names no contractor-specific credential, bond, exam, or registration beyond that general license.
Adopted code
THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE (WITH THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE), MANDATORY STATEWIDE UNDER UTAH LAW -- NOT A LOCAL LEHI ADOPTION, AND LEHI CURRENTLY PUBLISHES NO STATEMENT OF ITS OWN. Utah Code 15A-2-103(1): "the following construction codes are incorporated by reference ... (a) the 2024 edition of the International Building Code ... (b) the 2021 edition of the International Residential Code." Utah Code 15A-1-204(1)(a): "The State Construction Code is the construction codes ... that the state and each political subdivision of the state shall follow." 15A-1-204(1)(b)(ii)(A) reaches an existing building whose owner is "voluntarily engaged in ... the repair, renovation, remodeling, alteration, enlargement, rehabilitation, conservation, or reconstruction of the building." Lehi's own Building and Inspections page states, as read this session: "Current Codes and Design Criteria have changed and will be posted soon" -- so the City currently publishes no first-party statement naming which edition it locally enforces, and the City's local Title 10 Buildings and Construction code, served by codelibrary.amlegal.com, was not independently reachable this session (access-denied response rather than content). The only codified local IRC Chapter 9 amendments the Legislature has authorized anywhere in Utah (Title 15A, Chapter 4, Part 2) apply to Park City and Sandy City only, both wildfire wood-roof or ignition-resistant construction provisions, and neither names Lehi. Separately, Utah Code 65A-8-203(9)(a) (enacted by HB 48, effective 2026-01-01) requires every municipality to "adopt and enforce" the 2006 Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code (adopted at 15A-2-103(2)) in any area it designates as wildland-urban interface; nothing self-executes and no statewide registry of adopting jurisdictions exists. No first-party Lehi statement of a WUI adopting ordinance or a declared WUI zone was found this session, so this record does not establish Lehi's WUI position either way.
Drip edge
Required — Utah's statewide amendment packet to the 2021 IRC (Title 15A, Chapter 3, Part 2, all six sections, 48,780 characters swept) contains zero occurrences of "drip edge" and does not touch IRC Chapter 9's drip-edge provision (Section R905.2.8), so the base 2021 IRC requirement stands unmodified statewide; Lehi has adopted no local amendment to Chapter 9 that this project could read (the only two the Legislature has authorized anywhere in Utah apply to Park City and Sandy City, and Lehi's own Title 10 was not reachable this session, not reachable). This record points at the section rather than quoting its operative text, which has not been opened by this project.
About drip edgeImpact-resistant roofing
Not required — Counted across the full statewide 2021 IRC amendment packet (48,780 characters) and the enrolled 2026 amending act (H.B. 65, 253,370 characters): "UL 2218" 0, "Class 4" 0, "Class IV" 0, "hail" 0; the act's four "impact" hits are all attack-resistant glazing standards (ASTM F3561), not roof coverings. The only codified local IRC Chapter 9 amendments authorized anywhere in Utah (Park City and Sandy City) are both wildfire wood-roof provisions and name no impact-rating standard. Separately, Utah's 2006 Wildland Urban Interface Code, which every municipality must now adopt and enforce in any area it designates wildland-urban interface (Utah Code 65A-8-203(9)(a)), is fire-only: counted across its full 118,402 characters, "UL 2218," "FM 4473," "Class 4," "Class IV" and "hail" are each zero. No statewide registry of adopting jurisdictions exists, and no first-party Lehi statement of a WUI designation was found this session, so this record does not establish whether Lehi has designated a WUI zone. Either way, a wildfire code implies nothing about hail impact resistance.
Roof layer limit / recover
No classification is set on this record. Utah's statewide amendment packet to the 2021 IRC (48,780 characters swept across all six Chapter 3, Part 2 sections) contains zero occurrences of "R908," "Chapter 9," or "R9" section numbers, so the state amendments do not touch the base code's reroofing provision. Lehi's own Title 10 Building Regulations, which would be needed to confirm no local amendment exists, were not reachable this session: the City's code host, codelibrary.amlegal.com, returned an access-denied response rather than content. This record accordingly carries the state-level absence without asserting a classification.
Sales & use tax
7.45% COMBINED, LEHI LOCATION CODE 25-066 (UTAH COUNTY). Per the Utah State Tax Commission's quarterly "Combined Sales and Use Tax Rates" chart (rates in effect as of July 1, 2026), rendered directly from the published PDF rather than machine-extracted: the rate is built from the 4.85% state base (Sales & Use Tax), a 1.00% Local Sales & Use Tax, a 0.25% County Option Sales Tax, five further transit and transportation-infrastructure components specific to Utah County (Mass Transit, Additional Mass Transit, County Option Transportation, Transportation Infrastructure, and County Public Transit) totaling 1.25%, and a 0.10% Botanical/Cultural/Zoo Tax that applies inside the city (unincorporated Utah County, location code 25-000, totals 7.35% without that last component). Under Utah Admin. Code R865-19S-58(2), a roofing contractor performing a furnish-and-install (repair or replacement) contract is the consumer of the materials and owes sales tax on the contractor's own purchase of them; the charge to the homeowner for the completed job, and the roofer's labor, is not itself taxed. R865-19S-58(2)(a): "The contractor or repairman who converts the personal property to real property is the consumer of tangible personal property regardless of the type of contract." Utah treats repair and replacement alike for this purpose; there is no repair/replacement split in the tax rule. A contractor may not separately state the tax it paid on materials as a line item on a customer invoice (Tax Commission Publication 42).
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