Weber County, UT Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

Section 6-3-1, Limits On The Number Of Dogs And Cats Per Residence, sets Weber County's baseline household cap: no person or persons at any one residence living in unincorporated Weber County shall at any time own, harbor, license, or maintain more than three dogs and five cats, except as provided in the section. The rule is written to apply specifically to the unincorporated county, and the code tells residents inside an incorporated municipality, Ogden, Roy, North Ogden, South Ogden, Riverdale, Washington Terrace or Pleasant View, to check with their own city for its permissible number of animals per residence, since a city's animal ordinance controls once someone lives inside city limits.

A resident who wants to keep more than three dogs or five cats has one legal path: apply for and meet the conditions of an animal boarding establishment license, referred to informally as a kennel or cattery license, under Section 6-3-7, and comply with any additional local ordinance limits. That license carries its own inspection and renewal requirements under Sections 6-3-8 through 6-3-12, including notice of changes to the establishment and a basis for adverse action and appeal in Section 6-3-13. The household limit sits alongside a separate cap on animals kept for family food production, governed exclusively by the county's land use zoning rather than Chapter 6-3's numeric pet limit, so someone counting chickens or goats toward a household total is applying the wrong rule; those animals are counted under the Section 104-2-4 family food production standards in the applicable agricultural zone instead.