2022 Utah Code
Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Chapter 15 - General Sanitation
Section 2 - Minimum rules of sanitation established by department.

Universal Citation: UT Code § 26-15-2 (2022)
Effective 5/5/2021
26-15-2. Minimum rules of sanitation established by department.
The department shall establish and enforce, or provide for the enforcement of minimum rules of sanitation necessary to protect the public health. Such rules shall include, but not be limited to, rules necessary for the design, construction, operation, maintenance, or expansion of:
  • (1) restaurants and all places where food or drink is handled, sold or served to the public;
  • (2) public swimming pools;
  • (3) public baths including saunas, spas, massage parlors, and suntan parlors;
  • (4) public bathing beaches;
  • (5) schools which are publicly or privately owned or operated;
  • (6) recreational resorts, camps, and vehicle parks;
  • (7) amusement parks and all other centers and places used for public gatherings;
  • (8) mobile home parks and highway rest stops;
  • (9) construction or labor camps;
  • (10) jails, prisons and other places of incarceration or confinement;
  • (11) hotels and motels;
  • (12) lodging houses and boarding houses;
  • (13) service stations;
  • (14) barbershops and beauty shops, including a facility in which one or more individuals are engaged in:
    • (a) any of the practices licensed under Title 58, Chapter 11a, Cosmetology and Associated Professions Licensing Act; or
    • (b) styling hair in accordance with the exemption from licensure described in Section 58-11a-304(13);
  • (15) physician and dentist offices;
  • (16) public buildings and grounds;
  • (17) public conveyances and terminals; and
  • (18) commercial tanning facilities.


Amended by Chapter 227, 2021 General Session
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