Provo, UT Animal Ordinances: Mandatory Spay/Neuter (2026)

080(2), part of the wild-animal possession chapter, states that a university may possess and use feral cats for a bona fide educational or scientific research project, but before their release, all feral cats so used shall be spayed or neutered at the expense of the university. 100(6), which likewise exempts a university's research use of feral cats from the general nuisance-animal prohibition on condition that the cats be spayed or neutered before release. Outside that university-research context, Provo's animal code does not impose a spay or neuter mandate on pet owners.

030); it does not condition licensing on sterilization, and there is no separate fee differential or surcharge tied to an animal's reproductive status in the licensing chapter. 100, which requires an owner of a female dog or cat in season to keep the animal confined so it cannot contact other dogs or cats and create a nuisance, but that is a confinement duty, not a sterilization mandate, and it expressly does not apply where the owner has planned a breeding. Because the spay/neuter requirement in the code text is confined to a university's post-research release of feral cats, this topic is grounded only at that narrow scope for Provo, not as a general mandatory spay/neuter law.