Layton, UT Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)
Key Facts
- Declared nuisance basis
- LMC 6.24.030(5)
- Separate ban
- LMC 9.04.010, 'verminous' conditions
- Notice period to remedy
- at least 10 days
- Penalty
- class B misdemeanor, LMC 9.04.020
- Enforcement partner
- Davis County Health Department
Summary
Layton treats a property that breeds or harbors rodents, insects, or other vermin as a declared nuisance subject to City abatement under LMC 6.24.030(5), and separately makes any 'verminous' condition on property an illegal nuisance under LMC 9.04.010. Both provisions let the City order cleanup rather than simply cite the property owner.
Weeds, garbage, refuse, objects, or structures that create a source of contamination or pollution of water, air, soil, or property, a danger to health, a breeding place or habitation for insects, rodents or other forms of life deleterious to human habitation or that otherwise creates a condition deleterious to their surroundings.
Full Breakdown
030, 'Declared Nuisance,' lists the conditions Layton's Community and Economic Development Department can act against under its weeds-and-refuse abatement chapter. Subsection (5) covers weeds, garbage, refuse, objects, or structures that create a breeding place or habitation for insects, rodents, or other forms of life deleterious to human habitation, alongside conditions that contaminate water, air, or soil or otherwise endanger health. 090 describing the violation and giving at least ten days to remedy it, and pursue the matter with the Davis County Health Department. 020 is a class B misdemeanor.
Together the two chapters give Layton both a code-abatement path, for a rodent-attracting property, and a straight nuisance-prosecution path, for a verminous condition, depending on which the Department or the City Attorney chooses to pursue.
Violations & Fines
Failing to remedy a rodent-harborage condition after a 6.24.090 notice, or maintaining a verminous condition covered by LMC 9.04.010, can be prosecuted as a public nuisance, a class B misdemeanor under LMC 9.04.020, and the Community and Economic Development Director can coordinate enforcement with the Davis County Health Department under LMC 6.24.080.
Frequently Asked Questions
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