Utah County, UT Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

190 defines livestock to include poultry along with cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, and donkeys, and makes it unlawful for an owner to negligently or intentionally let livestock run at large. All fencing enclosing livestock must be of sufficient construction to prevent escape or injury, and must be maintained so no part of it, absent extraordinary circumstances, can be broken or damaged in a way that allows escape; any animal found in violation may be impounded, and the owner is strictly liable for damages the livestock causes.

72 sets siting standards for the structures that house that livestock and poultry: no structure used for farm animals, feed yard, corral, pen, or coop may be built or maintained closer than 20 feet to any open waterway draining into a natural stream, and surface drainage from those structures cannot be allowed to drain into such a waterway. Structures for farm animals, mink, or other fur-bearing animals may not be built closer than 50 feet to an existing dwelling on an adjacent property, and side or rear setbacks for agricultural buildings must be at least 5 feet.

20 expressly permits the raising of poultry and other fowl and the coops, pens, and hatcheries used to raise them, alongside grazing and pasturing of livestock, as of-right uses subject to the ordinance's standards.