Utah Code Title 10. Utah Municipal Code § 10-8-85.5. “Rental dwelling” defined--Municipality may require a business license or a regulatory business license and inspections--Exception

(a) used or designated for use as a residence by one or more persons;  and

(2)(a) The legislative body of a municipality may by ordinance require the owner of a rental dwelling located within the municipality:

(b) A municipality may not require an owner of multiple rental dwellings or multiple buildings containing rental dwellings to obtain more than one regulatory business license for the operation and maintenance of those rental dwellings.

(c) A municipality may not charge a fee for the inspection of a rental dwelling.

(d) If a municipality's inspection of a rental dwelling, allowed under Subsection (2)(a)(ii)(B), approves the rental dwelling for purposes of a regulatory business license, a municipality may not inspect that rental dwelling except as provided for in Section 10-1-203.5.

(a) interfere with the ability of an owner of a rental dwelling to contract with a tenant concerning the payment of the cost of a utility or municipal service provided to the rental dwelling;  or

(b) except as required under the State Construction Code or an approved code under Title 15A, State Construction and Fire Codes Act, for a structural change to the rental dwelling, or as required in an ordinance adopted before January 1, 2008, require the owner of a rental dwelling to retrofit the rental dwelling with or install in the rental dwelling a safety feature that was not required when the rental dwelling was constructed.