Lehi, UT Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Lehi City Code section 5-2-3(B) enumerates specific situations the city treats as nuisances subject to abatement. Item 28, "Inappropriate Conduct," covers any property or premises with an environment that causes, encourages or allows individuals to commit certain acts on the property, premises, or an adjacent public place; subitem b names "publicly urinating or defecating" directly alongside illegal drinking, fighting, intentionally obstructing traffic and soliciting prostitution. Because this conduct is expressly listed, no separate finding is needed to treat it as a nuisance; it already qualifies under section 5-2-3(B)(26)'s catch-all for any code section that expressly declares specific conduct a nuisance.

Responsibility runs to whoever creates, aids in creating, or fails to abate the condition: under section 5-2-5, "the responsible person" includes any owner, agent or occupant who creates, contributes to, supports or continues the nuisance, and that person is liable to the city for its abatement expenses. Enforcement runs through section 5-2-6, which allows the city's administrative code enforcement hearing program, or any other means available under city or state law, to administer the chapter. A property owner who lets an environment persist where people are urinating or defecating in public view therefore risks a nuisance abatement order and a bill for the city's cleanup and enforcement costs, separate from any criminal charge an individual might separately face under state law for the conduct itself.