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

Section 10.30.020 of the Taylorsville City Code targets encampments on unauthorized public land in two parts. Subsection A makes it unlawful, and a Class C misdemeanor for each day of the violation, to camp, lodge, cook, make a fire, or pitch a tent, fly, lean-to, tarpaulin, umbrella, or any other ground cover or shelter, or to place sleeping bags, bedding, or other camping or sleeping equipment on public grounds as defined in subsection B. It separately makes it a misdemeanor, again per day, to use or benefit from that shelter or equipment and fail to remove it within a reasonable time after a law enforcement officer or even an ordinary citizen asks.

Subsection B defines public grounds broadly as real property owned in whole or part by the United States and its agencies, the State of Utah, or any of its political subdivisions, where the owner has not authorized camping or sleeping, covering everything from city parks and trail rights-of-way to county or federal parcels within Taylorsville's boundaries. Because the per-day structure applies, an encampment left in place accrues a new misdemeanor count for every day it remains, giving the Taylorsville Police Department and Community Development code enforcement continuing leverage to require cleanup rather than a single citation.

The section works alongside the separate park-specific camping restriction at 9.61.160 and the general park fire-making rule at 9.61.140, but 10.30.020 is the citywide provision reaching any unauthorized public ground, not just parks.