Provo cannot ban or restrict any dog by breed. Utah Code 18-2-101 prohibits a municipality from adopting or enforcing any breed-specific rule, regulation, policy, or ordinance regarding dogs and voids any such measure, so no breed restrictions apply in Provo.
There is no breed-specific dog ban in Provo, and the City is legally barred from enacting one. Utah Code 18-2-101 (Regulation of dogs by a municipality), enacted by House Bill 97 (2014) and effective January 1, 2015, provides: '(1) A municipality may not adopt or enforce a breed-specific rule, regulation, policy, or ordinance regarding dogs. (2) Any breed-specific rule, regulation, policy, or ordinance regarding dogs is void.' This statewide preemption invalidated breed bans (including pit bull restrictions) that several Utah cities had on the books and prevents Provo from targeting any breed by name. Provo instead regulates dogs on a behavior-based, breed-neutral basis under Title 8 of the Provo City Code: the leash/at-large rule (8.02.110), the two-dog limit (8.06.070), nuisance-animal rules (8.02.100), and the vicious-animal provisions (8.02.090), which apply to any dog regardless of breed. A municipality retains general authority to license, tax, and regulate the keeping of dogs and to deal with dogs running at large, but that authority may not be exercised in a breed-specific way.
Because breed-specific local rules are void under Utah Code 18-2-101, Provo enforces dangerous-dog and at-large matters individually based on a dog's behavior, not its breed. A dog that is at large, a nuisance, or vicious is handled under the breed-neutral provisions of Provo City Code Title 8 (e.g., 8.02.090, 8.02.100, 8.02.110), with citations and, for vicious animals, impoundment and possible court-ordered disposition.
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