Ogden, UT Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

Ogden City Code section 13-3-1 defines the offense of cruelty to animals and lists specific prohibited acts a person commits when he or she engages in them. Subsection Q, "Birds And Nests," makes it unlawful to take or kill any bird, or to rob or destroy any nest, eggs, or young of any bird, in violation of state law; the city ordinance incorporates the state prohibition rather than restating its own separate wildlife code. 1) and prohibits selling underage fowl or displaying chicks and ducklings without brooders or heating devices (subsection K).

Enforcement runs through Ogden Animal Services (the "division" under Title 13) and the Ogden Police Department, which investigate complaints and can seize animals from a person arrested under the chapter per section 13-3-8. Because the birds-and-nests clause cross-references "the laws of the state," the underlying wildlife-protection standard comes from the Utah Code, but the citation and enforcement mechanism for anyone caught doing it inside city limits is this municipal cruelty section. for animal fighting and neglect, showing the city treats bird nest destruction within the same criminal cruelty framework rather than as a civil infraction.