Logan, UT Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

Chapter 9.38 of the Logan Municipal Code is titled Parties, Gatherings or Events and works as a two-step cost-recovery system run through the Logan police. A party, gathering or event is three (3) or more people assembled for a social activity where alcoholic beverages are being consumed, where substances regulated by the Utah controlled substances act are used by any person, or where the noise makes a noise disturbance prohibited by chapter 8.16 of the code.

On the first response, section 9.38.020 requires the officer, when there is probable cause to believe the activities or noise violate the law, to issue a written notice to the host in addition to any other action the situation requires. The notice states that a subsequent response to the same location or address within a thirty (30) day period will be deemed a special security assignment and that the hosts can be liable for the services fee.

On a second response inside those thirty (30) days, section 9.38.030 makes the hosts jointly and severally liable for the services fee. The officer issues a second notice by giving it to the hosts or by leaving it in a conspicuous place on the premises when no host is available. Host is defined broadly: the owner or leaseholder, anyone who resides at or occupies the property, the person in charge of the premises, the person who organized the event, the person who gave permission, the officers of a hosting organization, and, when the host is under eighteen (18), the minor's parent or parents or legal guardian whether or not they are present.

The services fee is a civil penalty equal to the city's cost of the special security assignment. It includes police officer salaries while responding or remaining, the pro rata cost of equipment, the cost of repairing city equipment and property damaged, medical treatment, disability and sick leave costs for officers injured regardless of fault, costs of collection, and reasonable attorney fees. The code fixes the equitable minimum service fee at one hundred dollars ($100.00).