Orem has no breed-specific ordinance, and it cannot enact one. Utah Code Section 18-2-101 prohibits any municipality from adopting or enforcing breed-specific dog rules and voids any that exist, so pit bulls and other breeds are legal in Orem.
No Orem-specific ordinance restricts dogs by breed, and Utah state law preempts the field. Utah Code Section 18-2-101 (enacted by H.B. 97, effective 2015) provides that a municipality may not adopt or enforce a breed-specific rule, regulation, policy, or ordinance regarding dogs, and that any such breed-specific rule is void. As a result Orem cannot ban or restrict pit bulls or any other breed. Instead, dangerous dogs are regulated based on individual behavior, not breed: under the governing Utah County animal control code, possession of a vicious dog is unlawful unless it is restrained, confined, or muzzled so it cannot bite or attack (Utah County Code 5-2-16), and a vicious dog must be kept in a heavy-gauge wire run six feet high with a secure ceiling and floor and kept leashed and muzzled when out of its kennel. Knowingly allowing a vicious animal to go at large is a Class B misdemeanor, or a Class A misdemeanor if it causes a human death (Utah County Code 5-2-17).
Because breed-specific regulation is preempted, no penalty attaches to owning any particular breed. Owners of any dog determined to be vicious by behavior must comply with confinement and muzzling requirements; allowing a vicious animal to go at large is a Class B misdemeanor (Class A if it causes a human death) under Utah County Code 5-2-17.
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