Layton, UT Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

020(11) defines 'weeds' for Layton's Weeds and Refuse chapter to include, at (e), 'plants specified as weeds in the Utah Noxious Weed Act, Title 4, Chapter 17, Utah Code (as amended), and its subsequent regulations,' incorporating the state's noxious/invasive species list directly into the local definition rather than maintaining a separate city list. The same definition also independently covers vegetation that is a fire hazard, that is noxious, a nuisance, or dangerous, grasses, stubble, brush, tumbleweeds, clippings, and cuttings that create a fire, insect, or rodent-harborage hazard, and poison ivy specifically.

070 sets the operative standard: any regulated weed, including a species specified under the state Noxious Weed Act, must be maintained at no more than one foot in height at all times, eradicated by chemicals, cutting, or another approved method, and the cuttings promptly cleared from the property; root-removed or rototilled weeds must be buried, hauled off, or composted as the law allows. The Director can grant a firebreak exception of at least fifteen feet around structures on parcels of roughly ten acres or more, and can exempt low-risk land such as 'hollows' or forest-service property with Fire Chief and Davis County Health Department concurrence. 080.