Weber County, UT Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 6-4-13, Nuisance Animals, opens with a duty on every owner: all persons having custody of any animal or animals shall exercise proper care and control over the animal in order to prevent it from becoming a nuisance animal. The section then lists eight specific conditions that make an animal a nuisance, and unreasonable noise is explicit among them: an animal is deemed a nuisance if it causes damage to another person's property, causes unreasonable odor, is in unsanitary condition, is diseased, is in heat and uncontrolled, makes unreasonable barking, whining, howling, or disturbing noises, chases vehicles, people or livestock, or has previously been found at-large by animal control on three separate occasions within a 12-month period.

That last provision means a dog does not need a noise complaint at all to be classified a nuisance; a repeat at-large record alone qualifies it. Once the director or a designee determines under Section 6-4-14 that an animal meets the nuisance standard, or is potentially dangerous under Section 6-1-3, animal control is authorized to abate the situation, which the code lists as including relocating or euthanizing the animal after obtaining the owner's written consent, among other listed remedies in that section. Section 6-4-13 was adopted by Ordinance 2024-01, a more recent amendment than the underlying 2013 recodification of Title 6, so it reflects the county's current nuisance-animal standard rather than the original 2013 language.