Lehi, UT Animal Ordinances: Exotic Pets (2026)

Lehi's animal code defines WILD ANIMAL in Section 6-4A-1 as a specific list: alligators and crocodiles, bears, non-domesticated cats, coyotes, foxes and wolves (including hybrids), porcupines, primates, raccoons, skunks, venomous snakes or lizards, venomous fish and piranhas, weasels other than domesticated ferrets, and deer, elk, moose and antelope. Section 6-4E-5 then makes it unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, barter, give away, keep or purchase any animal on that list. The ban carries narrow carve-outs: the city animal shelter, a zoological park, veterinary hospital, humane society shelter, public laboratory, circus, sideshow, amusement show, or an education or scientific facility may keep one of these animals if it provides protective devices adequate to prevent escape or injury to the public, and a business raising Mustelidae species for pelts is exempt from the prohibition.

The section separately bars keeping any animal of a species prohibited or protected under Utah County, state or federal law. 11 lets a resident keep buffalo, ostriches, elk, fallow deer, emu, peacocks and similar exotic species with a Conditional Use Permit and any required State permits, but reiterates that wild animals, meaning those that are vicious, non-domesticated, venomous or dangerous, may not be kept as pets or for exhibition under Title 6, Chapter 4, Article E.