Weber County, UT Animal Ordinances: Dog Leash Laws (2026)

Section 6-4-2, Animals At-Large Prohibited, states that it is unlawful for any animal to run at-large except in five specific situations: while participating in field trials and obedience classes, while properly controlled by a participant as part of a recognized dog club, while assisting an owner or trainer in legal hunting or herding livestock, while assisting a peace officer in law enforcement duties or training for the same, or while on the owner's private property under direct and effective sound or gesture control and within sight of the owner.

Animals at-large is defined in Section 6-1-3 to mean an animal off the owner's property and not under immediate control by a durable restraint device capable of keeping it restrained, or an animal on the owner's own property but not securely confined by a leash, building, fenced area, or appropriate transport device. Section 6-4-5, Improper Restraint And Attacks, layers on a specific public-space leash mandate: dogs are to be restrained on a proper leash at all times on the public right-of-way and in public places, and it is unlawful for anyone with custody of an animal to negligently or intentionally restrain or fence it in a manner that allows it to escape or run at-large.

Section 6-4-7 separately bars keeping any animal on public right-of-way or public property without permission and requires animals walked there to be handled on a leash at all times. Section 6-4-6 adds that tethering or staking an animal on unenclosed premises in a way that lets it go beyond the property line is unlawful absent permission from the affected property owner.