Weber County, UT Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

Weber County Code Title 6 puts coyotes in the 'wild unprotected animal' category defined at Section 6-1-3 as 'a wild animal that is classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an agriculture nuisance animal such as raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and skunks.' The broader 'wild animal' definition in the same section separately lists coyotes under 'Dog family (Canidae),' alongside wolves, foxes and dingoes, as species that count as wild for purposes of the county's animal code.

Section 6-4-18 makes it unlawful to sell, barter, give away, keep or purchase any wild animal, including a coyote, except at licensed facilities such as animal shelters, zoological parks, veterinary hospitals, bona fide research facilities and fairgrounds, and any facility that does keep one must confine it so it cannot escape or run at large and must follow state and federal vaccination and handling rules for the species.

For abatement of coyotes and the other listed nuisance species already living wild in the county, Section 6-4-19 is short and direct: abatement happens 'in a safe and humane manner under the direct or with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.' The code does not set out a separate citizen permitting scheme, hazing protocol or feeding ban for coyotes specifically; abatement authority sits with animal control and its federal partner, USDA Wildlife Services, rather than with individual residents. The general nuisance-animal notice and justice court review procedure elsewhere in the chapter governs how the county documents and acts on a contested nuisance-wildlife case.