West Jordan, UT Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 6-3D-1 targets informal 'adoption' of strays before they go through the City's licensing and impound system. It is unlawful for any person, other than a lawfully incorporated animal welfare society, to harbor, feed or keep a lost or strayed dog or cat on their premises. Instead, anyone who finds a stray-looking dog or cat must notify the Division of Animal Control within twenty-four hours, and the Division then impounds the animal under the procedures set out in article C of this chapter, including the five-business-day minimum hold in section 6-3C-5 before the animal can be adopted, sold or destroyed.

West Jordan's code doesn't carry a separate provision banning the feeding of deer, geese or other genuinely wild animals; the harboring statute reaches only domestic dogs and cats that have strayed from an owner. C are the one carved-out exception: caretakers who register with the Division and hold a valid caretaker permit are expressly exempt from both licensing requirements and the City's feeding bans, so a registered colony caretaker can lawfully feed the cats in their colony where an unregistered person feeding the same animals could not.