Prescott Valley, AZ Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Section 10-01-140 of the Prescott Valley Town Code is titled Spitting and Public Urination or Defecation. Subsection B makes it unlawful for any person to urinate or defecate in or upon any open public place or place where the public is invited, not designed or designated for urination or defecation, which is easily visible or readily accessible from a public thoroughfare or public conveyance. The test has three parts: the place is open to the public or invites the public, it is not a designated facility such as a restroom, and it is easily visible or readily accessible from a public thoroughfare or public conveyance. Because the section says visible or accessible, a person does not have to be seen by anyone to fall inside it.

Subsection A of the same section separately prohibits spitting on public sidewalks, crosswalks, public paths, by-ways or highways, or on the floor or interior of any public building in the Town. Subsection C attaches one penalty to both subsections.

Park rules point the same direction. In Section 10-02-010(A)(1)(c), which allows day-use gold panning and metal detecting in Fain Park, the code spells out that Park restrooms are to be used instead of depositing or burying human waste in the Park. The Town Council last amended Section 10-01-140 by Ordinance No. 266 on October 17, 1991, so the language is long settled.