Deck permit checklist — Provo, Utah
Assembled from Provo’s own published permit rules. Every line below is quoted from a city document and linked to it. Nothing here is generated, estimated, or inferred from another jurisdiction.
Do you need a permit?
Provo requires a permit for a deck.
Provo publishes no deck exemption at all. The City's project guidance for decks says only to apply for a building permit, with no height-above-grade, no floor-area, and no attached-versus-detached carve-out. Provo's single published permit trigger is a quotation of 2021 IRC Section R105.1 in its building FAQ; the City does not reproduce or reference the R105.2 exempt-work list, so no numeric deck threshold can be attributed to Provo. There is no deck handout in Provo's Building Resources or Project Requirements document libraries.
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Sources
- deck — permit rules, deck — fee schedule ↗verified August 2026
Other permits Provo publishes rules for
Listed because the city publishes a separate rule for each type — not because this project necessarily triggers one. Whether it does depends on your scope of work.
- Fence permit checklist
- Shed permit checklist
- Water heater permit checklist
- Re-roof permit checklist
- Retaining wall permit checklist
- Electrical work permit checklist
- General building work permit checklist
BuildSpec is a reference, not the authority having jurisdiction. Confirm requirements with Provo before you build.