Weber County, UT HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

Section 108-11-3 of the Weber County Land Use Code lists four grounds on which a short-term rental license will not be issued: the building lacks a certificate of occupancy for residential use, the unit is an accessory dwelling unit, the unit is reserved for workforce housing, or the property is bound by private covenants. On the covenant ground, the code states a license is invalid for any property 'subject to private covenants that prohibit the property's availability for short-term rentals,' and that this bar applies no matter how the covenant is labeled and whether or not a homeowners association or committee actually enforces it.

Weber County itself does not investigate or adjudicate CC&R disputes between an owner and an HOA; the county's role is limited to treating the resulting license as invalid, meaning enforcement of the underlying covenant restriction still runs through the HOA's own remedies, such as fines, liens, or civil suit, not through county code enforcement. This chapter, adopted by Ordinance 2023-01 on January 10, 2023, applies only to short-term rentals in the unincorporated area of Weber County, where the use is allowed by zone; it does not reach STRs inside Ogden, Roy, or the county's other incorporated cities, which regulate short-term rentals under their own codes. An owner who rents out a covenant-restricted property despite the invalid license is treated as operating without a valid short-term rental license.