Pocatello, ID Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Section 8.14.040 is the city's land and outdoor-area maintenance chapter, and its opening line requires every responsible party to ensure the listed requirements are met; subsection (H), Other Nuisances, groups several public-facing nuisance conditions together, including illegal burning, noise (cross-referenced to Section 9.16.100), unprotected openings like open trapdoors, and, at paragraph (H)(3), public defecation or urination on streets, alleys, public places, or other spots visible from private residences or to anyone passing on a public thoroughfare. Because the provision sits in the property-maintenance nuisance chapter rather than a stand-alone public-decency statute, it is enforced the same way as the rest of Section 8.14.040's outdoor-nuisance list: through code enforcement's inspection and notice process under Sections 8.14.080 and 8.14.100, culminating in penalties under Section 8.14.110.

That section makes any responsible party who creates or maintains a Section 8.14.040 nuisance guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in Section 1.04.040, and specifies that each day the violation continues is a separate offense, allowing penalties to run even while the city is separately working to abate the underlying condition. Section 1.04.040(B) sets the general misdemeanor penalty citywide at a fine not to exceed $1,000, up to six months in the county jail, or both. Section 8.14.120 also preserves the city's ability to pursue civil abatement remedies, including attorney fees and costs, in addition to or alongside any criminal misdemeanor case.