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Utah County adopts revision to home-occupation rules, removes numeric client threshold
Summary
The county commission unanimously adopted an ordinance amending Chapter 11 (Licenses and Business Regulations) to align with state law, remove a locally added 'three clientele' trigger and correct a typographical error in the home-occupation provision.
The Utah County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt an amendment to County Code Chapter 11 that removes a local numeric threshold in the home-occupation section and corrects a typographical error in text pulled from state statute.
Commissioners and county staff discussed how the locally inserted phrase — a three-client threshold for triggering review — created enforcement ambiguity. Staff advised mirroring state statute where possible to preserve flexibility and avoid difficult on-site counting requirements tied to neighbor complaints. County staff (Speaker 15) said the language had been drafted to comply with recent state changes (cited as Senate Bill 81) and recommended removing the numeric threshold to align with the statute.
After discussion about local concerns such as yard-sale limits and enforcement protocols, Commissioner (Speaker 5) moved to adopt the ordinance as changed to remove the 'three clientele' wording and to correct the typo from "along" to "alone." The motion passed 3-0.
The adopted change is intended to bring county code into alignment with state law and reduce local enforcement complexity. Staff said they would circulate a clean copy of the amended section to commissioners and could bring further modifications in the future if local enforcement issues arise.
