Washington County, UT Animal Ordinances: Pet Groomer Rules (2026)

Code § 10-10-2 groups 'Pet grooming' among the section's listed service businesses, alongside uses such as athletic clubs, barbershops and dry cleaners. Reading the use chart's column alignment against its C-1/C-2/C-3/PDC header, pet grooming carries a P (permitted) mark under C-2 Highway Commercial, C-3 General Commercial and PDC Planned Development Commercial, but no mark under C-1 Convenience Commercial, meaning a pet grooming business is not an allowed use in that zone. The section's coding key defines P uses as allowed outright and PS uses as allowed only if they meet standards and evaluation criteria set elsewhere in the title; pet grooming is a plain P use with no additional standards attached in the chart.

A pet grooming operator in the unincorporated county also needs a county business license under title 3, chapter 1, since § 3-1-2 requires any person operating a business in the unincorporated area to obtain and annually renew one, and § 3-1-3 makes unlicensed operation a class B misdemeanor. The same commercial use chart lists a related but separate use, 'Animal boarding/care for small animals only,' as permitted in C-1, C-2 and C-3 when the animals are boarded fewer than 30 days a year in a completely enclosed building, which is the applicable category if a grooming business also offers overnight boarding.