Taylorsville, UT Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Chapter 9.61 of the Taylorsville City Code governs conduct in city parks, and section 9.61.140 addresses outdoor cooking directly: it is unlawful to make or kindle a fire within a park for any reason unless the person uses a designated area that has a fireplace, barbecue grill, or other facility the City has designated to contain a fire. That means portable charcoal grills, smokers, campfires, or fire pits set up on open grass, a picnic table, or a trailhead are prohibited outside the City's fixed grill and fireplace stations.

The rule sits beside section 9.61.150, which bans discharging firearms, fireworks, or explosives in a park, and section 9.61.160, which bars camping or lodging in a park without City permission, showing the chapter's broader concern with fire and safety hazards on park grounds. No separate penalty is listed for section 9.61.140, so enforcement falls to the chapter's general penalty schedule at section 9.61.220, which classifies a violation of chapter 9.61 as an infraction carrying a fifty dollar fine for a first offense and one hundred dollars for a second or later offense committed within twenty four months of the first.

Community Development code enforcement, the Taylorsville Police Department (its own department since 2021), and City park staff respond to reports of unauthorized fires or grills at parks such as those along the Jordan River Parkway. Cooking is confined to the fireplace and barbecue stations the City has installed at specific parks; there is no exception for a personal smoker or portable grill brought onto open turf.