Liberty, UT

Unincorporated Weber County residences may keep at most three dogs and five cats at a time under Section 6-3-1. Anyone wanting more must obtain a kennel or cattery license through…

In Weber County's unincorporated Agricultural zones, a veterinary facility needs a conditional use permit in the A-1 and A-2 zones and is barred outright from A-3. The county's…

Weber County does not license cats the way it licenses dogs, but cats are still bound by the county's general at-large ban and a cat-specific confinement rule. Section 6-4-9 requires…

Weber County counts backyard chickens and other family food production animals in sets under Section 104-2-4: a lot under 40,000 square feet gets at most four sets of ten chickens (or…

Weber County does not ban dogs by breed. Animal control instead declares an animal 'potentially dangerous' or 'dangerous' case by case under Code § 6-1-3, based on documented bites…

Weber County classifies coyotes as 'wild unprotected animals' along with raccoons, foxes and skunks under Code § 6-1-3. Section 6-4-19 authorizes animal control to abate these nuisance…

Weber County does not require microchips for pets in general. Under Code § 6-5-6, any animal adopted, rescued or reclaimed from the county animal shelter must be implanted with an…

Weber County defines an 'animal grooming establishment' as any business offering cosmetology services for animals and gives its animal control director authority to write uniform…

Weber County does not mandate spay or neuter for every pet, but Code § 6-5-4 requires anyone adopting a dog or cat from the county animal shelter to have it fixed by a licensed…

Weber County caps permitted exotic pets at five per residence under Section 6-3-2 and separately bans keeping wild animals such as big cats, bears, wolves, primates, venomous reptiles…

Weber County bans letting any animal, including dogs, run at-large under Section 6-4-2, with narrow exceptions for field trials, dog clubs, hunting and law enforcement work. Section…

Weber County's Form-Based (FB) zone code requires street trees to be pruned with at least seven feet of clearance above the sidewalk and 12 feet above a bike lane or parking area…

In Weber County subdivisions built with a secondary water system, culinary (drinking) water cannot be used to run sprinklers or irrigate landscaping unless the culinary provider…

Weber County Land Use Code § 108-7-6(b) caps weeds and turf grass at eight inches tall on any yard, adjacent sidewalk, trail, parkstrip, or unimproved right-of-way visible from a…

A backyard or campsite fire in unincorporated Weber County needs no burn permit only if it is a controlled campfire confined to a fire ring no larger than three feet across, fed with…

Weber County bans open burning that becomes a nuisance and makes it unlawful to burn trash or other waste except under the narrow exceptions listed in the county fire code. Most…

Outside Weber County's incorporated cities, keeping, selling or giving away fireworks demands a permit from the Board of County Commissioners under County Code Section 30-1-2. State…

Every licensed short-term rental in unincorporated Weber County must have working smoke detectors installed and maintained per the current building and fire codes, a fire safety…

Weber County has adopted the Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code by reference as the county's own WUI code, covering vegetation and fire-hazard rules in canyon and mountain zones. It…

Weber County has adopted the state Wildland Urban Interface Code, but it only reaches developed lots in unincorporated F, DRR-1, or qualifying CV zones that sit east of a mapped line…

Weber County bans overnight street parking every winter: no vehicle, trailer, or object may sit on any roadway or shoulder between midnight and 7:00 a.m. from November 1 through April…

In Weber County's unincorporated Agricultural zones, parking a large vehicle as an accessory to a residential use needs a conditional use permit and is capped at one vehicle under…

Weber County makes it unlawful to park or stop a vehicle on any county highway where signs or pavement markings prohibit it, and the county may post those restrictions anywhere parking…

In a residential zone, Weber County bans parking anywhere in the required front setback: that space must stay open green space, with only a driveway crossing allowed to reach the side…

Any Weber County building or use that receives or distributes materials by vehicle must keep an off-street loading space on-site so trucks don't block public streets or alleys. Section…

Weber County Land Use Code § 108-7-6 makes it unlawful for any landowner or occupant in the unincorporated county to let garbage, junk, or an inoperable or abandoned vehicle accumulate…

Weber County lets an owner or guests occupy a self-contained recreational vehicle parked at a private residence for up to 30 days a year, capped at 14 consecutive days, with a land use…

Every Weber County short-term rental owner must collect and remit all applicable state and local taxes on their rental income under Land Use Code Section 108-11-6. Owners who fail to…

Renting a home for less than 30 days anywhere in unincorporated Weber County without short-term rental approval is unlawful under Land Use Code Section 108-11-2. An owner needs both a…

Weber County short-term rentals must stay under 50 decibels at the property line between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., and cannot run any amplified or reproduced sound at all during those…

Weber County caps short-term rental occupancy at two guests per bedroom plus four, up to a hard ceiling of ten people per property, under Land Use Code Section 108-11-8. The county can…

Weber County requires licensed short-term rentals to provide at least one nine-by-twenty-foot parking space for every two sleeping rooms, never fewer than two spaces, under Land Use…

Weber County tracks minor and major violations against a short-term rental license: three minor violations in 12 months triggers a fourth as a major violation, and hitting four minors…

Weber County allows home occupations by right in zones that permit them, but requires a land use permit with site plan, an annual business license, and compliance with size, hours…

A Weber County home occupation may display only one flat sign or name plate, capped at two square feet, mounted on the house or mailbox. A land use permit is required before installing…

Weber County treats a home day care as a home occupation under its Land Use Code. Operators need an annual business license and a land use permit with a site plan, can care for up to…

Weber County allows only one home occupation with visiting clientele per property, and bars them entirely from buildings with four or more dwelling units. Operators must provide…

Weber County's general fence rules let owners build four- and six-foot fences under Section 108-7-3 without a separate permit process, but a taller fence around a tennis or sport…

Weber County lets a fence sit on top of a cut-slope retaining wall at whatever height the zone would otherwise allow, but a fence on top of a fill retaining wall counts that wall's…

Weber County caps fences, walls and hedges at four feet anywhere on a lot, but allows six feet on an interior lot outside the front setback, and six feet on a corner lot outside both…

Weber County requires that either the accessory dwelling unit or the primary single-family home stay owner-occupied at all times. An owner who leaves cannot rent out the unit they…

Neither the primary single-family home nor its accessory dwelling unit may be used or licensed as a short-term, or 'nightly,' rental in unincorporated Weber County, unless another part…

Weber County allows one accessory dwelling unit per single-family lot where the zone permits it, with a footprint between 400 and 1,500 square feet, gross floor area capped at 2,000…

Weber County Land Use Code § 108-7-16 sets setback and height standards for any accessory building of 1,000 square feet or larger: six to ten feet off the rear property line depending…

In Weber County's South Fork Memorial Park and North Fork Park, Code Section 26-1-3 bars operating public address systems, radios, or other amplified sound equipment without written…

A licensed home occupation in unincorporated Weber County cannot create noise louder than 60 decibels measured at the property line, under Land Use Code Section 108-13-2. The limit…

On and around Pineview Reservoir, Weber County bars any activity or noise that unreasonably distracts other users of the reservoir, campgrounds, and shorelines between 10 p.m. and 6…

Weber County classifies a dog as a nuisance animal under Section 6-4-13 if it makes unreasonable barking, whining, howling, or disturbing noises. Owners must exercise proper care and…

Weber County Land Use Code § 108-7-18 requires every outdoor, permanent, in-ground swimming pool in the unincorporated county to be completely enclosed by a substantial fence at least…

Weber County requires a building permit before installing an in-ground pool, then holds it to Code § 108-7-18: at least a ten-foot setback from every property line and a complete…

Weber County requires a separate sexually oriented business license, plus an individual employee license, before anyone may operate an adult business, semi-nude entertainment business…

Weber County flatly prohibits auto, truck, or recreational vehicle repair or sales as a home occupation anywhere in the unincorporated county, one of eight uses barred outright under…

Weber County requires anyone principally engaged in buying and selling old metal, glass, rags, rubber, paper, or other junk, or war surplus or salvage items, from a fixed place of…

Weber County doesn't run its own trash trucks: unincorporated residents are billed through franchised haulers under County Code Section 16-2-9, Republic Services of Northern Utah or…

Weber County charges $5.00 per load to drop off clean grass and leaves under the Green Waste Tipping Fee in County Code Section 16-2-9, but a contaminated load loses that flat rate and…

Weber County's landfill charges flat per-item fees for bulky waste instead of weighing it: refrigerators and furnace or air conditioning units cost $10.00 each to recycle, small-rim…

Weber County Land Use Code § 108-7-7.010 makes it unlawful to place or deposit garbage, junk, weeds, an inoperable or abandoned vehicle, or any other vegetation in or upon a public…

Weber County requires every licensed short-term rental to keep trash containers stored behind the property's front setback line and next to the house, except on the assigned pick-up…

Weber County requires every trash dumpster on commercial and multi-family sites to sit on an approved site plan location and be fully screened on three sides by a six-foot enclosure…

Holding an athletic, entertainment, or political event at a Weber County park or on other county property in the unincorporated area requires a special event permit before you promote…

Weber County regulates fairs, carnivals and festivals in the unincorporated county as 'entertainment events' under its special events title. Organizers need a permit from the Planning…

Weber County treats parades as regulated 'entertainment events' and bars holding one on county roads or property in the unincorporated county without a special event permit. Organizers…

Weber County still requires a special event permit for a block party that closes a residential street, but the application must include a neighbor signature list instead of insurance…

Weber County bans any illicit discharge into its storm sewer system in the unincorporated county, with narrow exemptions for things like NPDES-permitted discharges, lawn irrigation and…

Weber County requires a stormwater construction activity permit before any excavation, grading, or land-disturbing construction in the unincorporated county that disturbs more than…

New homes and substantially improved residential structures in Weber County's mapped flood hazard areas must have their lowest floor, including any basement, built at least one foot…

Weber County regulates every area FEMA maps as a special flood hazard on its November 30, 2023 Flood Insurance Rate Maps, plus areas with documented flood risk under the county's own…

Weber County's Hillside Development chapter requires building sites on steep terrain to leave ample room for adequate defensible area as defined by the fire code. Any parcel with…

Weber County's Land Use Code sets minimum yard setbacks separately for each R1, R2 and R3 sub-zone: a dwelling's front setback drops from 15 feet in R1-15 to 12 feet in R1-12 and 10…

Weber County caps residential building height by sub-zone under Land Use Code Section 104-12-5.070: a main dwelling tops out at 35 feet in R1-15, rising to 40 feet in R1-12, 45 feet in…

Weber County's Commercial Zones cap how much of a lot a building may cover: Section 104-20-5.090 sets no lot-coverage limit in CR-1, C-2 or C-3, but restricts C-1 buildings to 60…

Unincorporated Weber County runs three agricultural zones, A-1, A-2 and A-3, that give farming and ranching legal priority over neighboring uses. Under Section 104-2-2, agriculture is…

Weber County protects existing farms from nuisance complaints filed by new subdivision residents by forcing the protection onto the plat itself. Section 106-1-5.020 requires every…

Weber County levies a 4.25 percent transient room tax on rent charged by motor courts, motels, hotels, inns and similar public accommodations in the unincorporated county. The tax…

In Weber County's Form-Based (FB) zone, developers building street improvements must keep bike lanes clear at every point. Code section 104-22-7.020 bars curb extension bulb-outs from…

Weber County closes posted day use areas around Pineview and Causey Reservoirs between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. under County Code Section 26-3-9. The rule covers popular beaches such…

Weber County Code Section 30-6-2 bars minors under 16 from loitering or remaining in any public place in the unincorporated area between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., and bars minors 16 or…

Weber County Code Section 32-4-6 bars placing any ditch, flume, headgate, log, building material, vehicle or other obstruction on a county sidewalk, though building material and…

Weber County Code Section 32-4-2 makes it unlawful to build a sidewalk past the county's designated curbline, or to encroach on a sidewalk with a building, fence, wall or post nearer…

Weber County classifies a day care (child) center serving more than 50 students as a critical facility, the same tier as hospitals and fire stations, under Land Use Code § 101-2-8.020…

Weber County charges set fees for each building inspection stage under Code § 12-3-8: $115 to re-inspect failed work, $125 an hour for an after-hours inspection the county building…

Weber County does not impose a blanket residential sprinkler mandate. Inside the county's Wildland Urban Interface area, its amended fire code lets the code official accept installed…

Weber County requires every licensed short-term rental to have working carbon monoxide detectors installed and maintained per the current building and fire codes, under the Section…

Weber County requires a permit from the county plumbing inspector before plumbing tied to a public sewer connection can go in, and the work must comply with the International Plumbing…

Weber County requires a permit before erecting, enlarging, altering, repairing, moving or demolishing any building or structure under Code § 12-3-1, which adopts the state's…

Weber County's Master Planned Development Overlay Zone requires a base project of at least 24 dwelling units on 4 acres in a residential zone (10 acres elsewhere), but lets the County…

Within Weber County's unincorporated area, County Code Section 30-2-1 makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate anywhere except a receptacle or facility provided for that purpose when…

Weber County bans drinking or possessing an open alcoholic beverage in county parks and around Pineview and Causey Reservoirs. Code § 26-3-11 prohibits it reservoir-wide except in…

Weber County treats a data center as a permitted, by-right 'data services' use in every manufacturing zone, M-T, M-1, M-2 and M-3, under Land Use Code Section 104-21-3.050, with no…

Weber County makes every landowner responsible for clearing weeds from their property, including the adjoining parkstrip and sidewalk, and capping weeds and turf at eight inches, with…

Weber County places the snow-clearing duty on the abutting property owner or resident, not the county road department. Sidewalks in the unincorporated county must be cleared within 24…

Weber County requires every new subdivision to submit a landscaping plan covering park strips and street cross sections, with street trees secured by the project's financial guarantee…

Weber County limits garage and yard sales of personal used items from a single-family home to once every three months, under Land Use Code Section 108-7-28. The rule applies per…

In unincorporated Weber County, a small solar energy system is allowed in every zoning district without a conditional use permit, but it must meet the same setback and height limits…

Weber County bans billboards outright, defining them by reference to Utah Code 17-79-102, except to the extent state law allows them. The only electronic message sign carve-out is a…

Weber County places no display period, removal deadline, or number limit on political signs and requires no land use permit for them, though it caps size at 16 square feet in…

Window signs are allowed in every zoning district in unincorporated Weber County without a land use permit, but cumulative window signage cannot exceed 25 percent of the window area…

Weber County allows a cannabis production establishment only in the M-1, M-2, A-2, and A-3 zones, per Land Use Code Section 108-7-34. M-1 and M-2 sites are limited to processing since…

When a residential use sits within 500 feet of a cannabis production establishment, whether it existed first or moves in later, Weber County requires the site to build a six-foot land…

Weber County will not knowingly license a short-term rental on property bound by private covenants that prohibit renting. Under Land Use Code Section 108-11-3, any short-term rental…

Weber County's outdoor lighting chapter exists to preserve the dark sky and support astrotourism, requiring every artificial light source to be fully shielded, downward directed, and…

Weber County's outdoor lighting code bars placing any light source at a location, angle, or height that trespasses onto a neighbor's property. Fixtures that already meet the general…

Weber County's Planning Division Director, acting as code enforcement official, investigates land use violations countywide in the unincorporated area. Report a suspected violation to…

Inside Weber County South Fork Memorial Park and North Fork Park, running a generator or other motor-driven equipment loud enough to disturb other visitors is a prohibited act. Any…

A mobile food trailer or kiosk in unincorporated Weber County is licensed as a short-term vendor under Section 108-13-3: a design review application, site plan, health department…

Weber County Land Use Code § 108-7-12 limits irrigated turf grass in new development: single-family lots cap out at 35 percent of the front and side yard or 3,000 square feet…