A. Fees charged for business licenses and classification of various classes of businesses shall be set according to the resolution adopted by the Duchesne county commission. Any changes in classification or fee as applicable to a currently licensed business shall not be in force until the current license expires.
B. Every person, firm, or corporation before engaging in any business, or profession hereinafter listed in this section shall obtain a license therefor and make payment to the county clerk in advance as follows:
1. Large Scale Wholesale And Retail Sales: As determined by the Duchesne County Assessor's Office any person, firm, or corporation dealing directly or indirectly in any manner in motor vehicles, petroleum, mining machinery, and equipment and all other types of machinery and equipment, steel distribution or supply, appliances of any kind, hardware, chemicals, milk, food, permanent fruit, and vegetable sales, restaurants, fast-food sales, coffee houses, bakery products, groceries, meat, fish, poultry, dry goods, clothing, sporting goods, notions, drugs, jewelry, soft drinks, nurseries, flowers, furniture or any other goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or description, and any other type of heavy industrial or commercial sales of any type or description and not otherwise specifically licensed by this chapter for each place of business operated.
2. Small Scale Wholesale And Retail Sales: As determined by the Duchesne County Assessor's Office any person, firm, or corporation dealing directly or indirectly in any manner in appliances of any kind, hardware, chemicals, milk, food, permanent fruit, and vegetable sales, restaurants, fast-food sales, coffee houses, bakery products, groceries, meat, fish, poultry, dry goods, clothing, sporting goods, notions, drugs, jewelry, soft drinks, nurseries, flowers, furniture and or any other goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or description and not otherwise specifically licensed by this chapter, for each place of business operated.
3. Large Scale Industrial Business: All businesses dealing with the manufacturing, processing, fabrication of goods, electrical generating plants, coal loading, and washing and storage facilities, refineries, and other similar industries.
4. Small Scale Industrial Business: All rendering and packing plants, wrecking and salvage, and other smaller-scale industrial businesses.
5. Professional Businesses: All attorneys, auctioneers, insurance brokers, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, accountants, engineers, surveyors, morticians, real estate, and all other professions not herein stated.
6. Hospitals And Medical Clinics: All hospitals and medical clinics offering medical services.
7. Recreational Businesses: All billiard halls, bowling alleys, dance halls and studios, resorts, skating rinks, swimming pools, theatres, amusement centers, recreation centers, spas, hunting lodges, fishing camps, and all other recreational businesses not herein stated.
8. Rental Storage Business: All rental storage businesses including warehouses, storage buildings, and cold storage units.
9. Motels, Hotels, Short-Term Rentals, Mobile Home Parks, And Recreational Vehicle Parks: All motels, hotels, short-term rentals (i.e. airbnb, vrbo, etc.), mobile home parks, and recreational vehicle parks.
10. Apartment And Boarding Houses: All apartment houses (three (3) apartments or more) and office buildings which rent or lease space.
11. Equipment Rental: All equipment rental businesses.
12. Financial Businesses: All banks, savings and loans, credit unions, etc., and all other financial businesses not herein stated.
13. Service-Related Businesses And Trades: All repair and service facilities, dry cleaning, delivery, dog kennels, printing, junk collecting, laundry supply, barbers, beauty parlors, taxis, welding, upholstery. vulcanizing, garbage collection, and all other services.
14. Contractors: All general contractors and contractors for plumbing, heating, and air conditioning, electrical, carpentry, painting, cement, road surfacing, grading, and all other contractors not herein stated.
15. Trucking Businesses: All trucking businesses related to oil or water hauling, motor freight, and other trucking not herein listed.
16. Mining And Oil And Gas: All mining, oil and gas exploration, drilling projects, and other mines not herein stated.
17. Small Scale Mining Operations: Small scale sand and gravel operations.
18. Home Businesses: All businesses are conducted solely within the confines of the home of the operator. Home Businesses shall consist of craft assembly, seamstress and alterations, book-keeping, word processing, proofreading, scrapbooking, genealogical research, pet grooming, custom cake decoration, dance instruction, gift baskets, medical transcription, and all other similar services not herein stated.
19. Itinerant Merchant: An itinerant merchant shall be identified as any person, whether a resident of Duchesne County or not, who engages in a temporary business activity located within the unincorporated limits of Duchesne County selling and/or delivering goods, wares. or services, or who conducts meetings open to the general public where franchises, distributorships, contracts, or business opportunities, goods, wares or services are offered to the public during the course of, or any time within, six (6) months after a lecture or public meeting pertaining to such items. Each person obtaining a license shall first show proof of landowner permission for the use of the site on which the temporary use will be undertaken.
C. Whenever more than one business, trade, profession, calling, or occupation is being carried on by one licensee under one roof, the licensee is required to apply for a business license for each business, trade, profession, calling, or occupation. Multiple business activities will be defined and delineated by the entity numbers issued by the Utah Department of Commerce.
D. Any person whose only business activity in Duchesne County is the delivery in the County of a service or merchandise sold or provided by him and whose regular place of business is maintained by him/her outside of the unincorporated Duchesne County limits shall procure a business license based upon the category corresponding to his principal business activity.
E. It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of an itinerant merchant without first having procured a license from the county licensing department. All itinerant merchant licenses shall expire one hundred twenty (120) days after the date of issuance thereof.
F. Reciprocal Recognition Of Licenses: No license fee shall be required by Duchesne County for any business whose only business activity in the county is the mere delivery of a service or merchandise sold or provided by them and whose regular place of business is located, licensed and maintained within the cities of Duchesne, Roosevelt, and Myton and the Towns of Altamont and Tabiona where:
1. Such business or person is at the time of such delivery or service licensed by any of the above-listed cities in which such place of business is situated; and
2. The authority licensing such business grants to licensees of Duchesne County making delivery within its jurisdiction the same privileges, upon substantially the same terms as are granted by this section; and
3. Neither the facilities nor equipment by which the product was manufactured, produced, or processed are subject to inspection by any authority of Duchesne County for compliance with locally adopted health, safety, fire, and building codes; and
4. The person or business providing a service or merchandise within the county shall provide a copy of the license to the licensing clerk of Duchesne County, and upon receiving such evidence of licensing, the county shall issue a Duchesne County business license and waive all license fees.
Notwithstanding any of the above, should a business operate a facility in the county, as defined herein, whereby business activities are carried on, the business will be required to pay Duchesne County license fee s. in addition to any fees required by any city. ("Facility" means stationary buildings or trailers, pipelines, oil derricks, storage tanks supported directly upon grade, pump jacks, storage yards, compressor stations, relay towers, transmission line.) (Ord. 08-263, 4-14-2008; amd. Ord. 21-383, 2-8-2021; Ord. 24-406, 4-8-2024)