Logan, UT Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

Logan Municipal Code § 12.24.050(A) bans camping, lodging or pitching a tent, fly, lean to, tarpaulin or any other type of camping equipment or personal belongings on public grounds, on any portion of a street, road or right of way, or in any park, playground or publicly owned property. The ban reaches personal belongings as well as shelters. A second sentence creates a removal duty: anyone using or benefiting from the camping equipment or personal belongings who fails to remove them for more than thirty (30) minutes after being requested to do so by any city official, officer or employee commits an offense.

Subsection B defines public grounds as any real property owned in whole or in part by the United States of America and its agencies, the State of Utah or any of its political subdivisions, including the City of Logan, upon which no camping has been authorized by that entity. The definition therefore reaches state and federal land inside the city as well as city parks.

Subsection C gives the mayor discretion to issue a temporary permit authorizing camping in connection with an approved special event that is in the public interest and does not constitute a public nuisance or threat to the public health, safety or welfare.

Subsection D sets the penalty: unless otherwise stated, a violation is a class B misdemeanor punished within the confines of that class as prescribed by law, and each day a violation continues is a separate offense. The section was amended by Ord. 25-13 in 2025. It sets a removal deadline; it does not print a storage, notice or cleanup procedure for belongings left behind.