Logan, UT Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

In Logan City, Utah, the barbed wire rule sits in Chapter 12.04 (Streets and Sidewalks Generally), Article I (Unlawful Acts), alongside bans on street bonfires and coasting on streets. Section 12.04.020 reaches two situations. The first is any barbed wire fence along or adjacent to any street. The second is a barbed wire fence used as a division fence between adjoining lots or parcels of land when the ordinance's residence condition is met; the printed text reads "either or which is occupied as place of residence," a typographical slip in the codified text that points at a lot occupied as a residence. The ordinance reaches both people who erect a fence and people who cause one to be erected, and it separately reaches anyone who maintains one, so an existing fence is not protected by having been built earlier.

The section also supplies its own label for the fence: "any such fence so erected or maintained is declared a nuisance." That language treats the fence itself as the offense, not only the act of building it. The Municipal Council adopted the language as part of the prior code, and the American Legal export prints it with no later amendment note. This page covers only the barbed wire ban. Fence height, setbacks and other residential fence standards belong to zoning in the Logan Land Development Code, which is outside the Titles 1 through 15 text this page was built from, so no figure for them is stated here.