Eagle Mountain, UT Code Violation Reporting: Common Violations (2026)
Key Facts
- Enforcing agency
- Eagle Mountain code enforcement officer
- Graffiti removal deadline
- 7 days after it should have been discovered
- Criminal penalty
- Class B misdemeanor for junk/graffiti violations
- Civil penalty
- Assessed per violation, per day of noncompliance
- Governing chapter
- EMMC Chapter 8.07, Nuisance Abatement
Summary
Eagle Mountain's code enforcement officer investigates the city's most common nuisance complaints under EMMC Chapter 8.07: junk accumulation, graffiti, weeds, and construction debris. Property owners who let junk pile up or fail to clear graffiti face civil penalties assessed per violation per day, plus criminal prosecution for repeat or serious violations under the city's nuisance abatement code.
8.07.010 Code enforcement officer. ... An employee of the city shall be selected as a code enforcement officer and shall be sworn in as required by law and designated to perform the duties identified in this chapter for a code enforcement officer (“officer”). ... 8.07.030 Junk and graffiti. A. Responsibility to Keep Property Free of Junk or Graffiti. It is unlawful for any person, corporation, partnership or legal entity owning or occupying real property in the city to allow the accumulation of junk, to fail to remove from the property any junk, or to fail to remove graffiti from the property within the timeframe required by this section. ... ... C. Graffiti. ... ... 2. Graffiti must be removed within seven days of the time by which it should reasonably have been discovered. ... ... F. Violation – Penalties and Remedies. 1. Violation of any of the provisions of this section is punishable as a Class B misdemeanor upon conviction. ... I. Civil Penalties. ... 1. Determination of Civil Penalties. a. Civil penalties shall be assessed per violation per day at the rate established in the Eagle Mountain City consolidated fee schedule.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance O-34-2026, passed August 4, 2026).
Full Breakdown
07 (Nuisance Abatement). 030(A), it is unlawful for any property owner, corporation, partnership or other legal entity to let junk accumulate, fail to remove junk from the property, or fail to remove graffiti within the required timeframe. 030(C) requires removal within seven days of when it reasonably should have been discovered. Enforcement runs on two tracks. 030(F)(1). 030(I)(1)(a), and those penalties keep accruing daily until the property is brought back into compliance. 07 the backbone of Eagle Mountain's day-to-day property maintenance enforcement.
Violations & Fines
Junk accumulation or unremoved graffiti is punishable as a Class B misdemeanor under EMMC 8.07.030(F)(1). The city also assesses a separate civil penalty per violation per day at the rate set in Eagle Mountain's consolidated fee schedule under EMMC 8.07.030(I)(1)(a), and that daily charge keeps accruing until the property is brought into compliance, on top of any criminal case the city attorney chooses to pursue.
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