Twin Falls, ID Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

The rule is subsection (E) of Section 6-2-3 in Title 6, Chapter 2 (General Offenses) of the Twin Falls City Code. The section was last amended by Ord. O-2024-011 on 8-19-2024. The text names two kinds of waste, urine and feces, and covers three places: upon the ground, into a body of water, and upon anything attached or setting upon said surfaces. That last phrase widens the rule past bare soil to sidewalks, pavement, vehicles parked on the ground, and structures attached to it.

The subsection does not require a witness in a public place. Its wording reaches any person who excretes human waste in those places, so a back alley, a vacant lot or the Snake River Canyon rim all fall inside the same words. The one carve-out is for toilet facilities used as receptacles for human waste, which means a restroom, a portable toilet or a similar facility is the lawful place and everything else is not.

The offense is a misdemeanor, the same class as disorderly conduct under subsection (A), public intoxication under subsection (C) and fighting under subsection (D) of the same section. It is not an infraction. Subsection (B), by contrast, makes construction noise a lower-tier infraction. Because the offense is a misdemeanor, the Twin Falls Police Department handles it, and Section 1-4-1 of the code authorizes Idaho uniform citations for violations of the code. The subsection prints no dollar amount of its own; Section 1-4-1 is the general penalty clause for code sections that provide no special penalty, and sets a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or both.

The code also separately regulates public nudity in Section 6-2-19, with its own penalty, so a person cited for relieving himself in public could face a separate question under that section depending on what the facts show.