Taylorsville, UT Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

Section 9.08.030(C) lists two rodent-specific nuisances. Item 16, Vegetation, covers dead, decayed, diseased, or hazardous trees, weeds, hedges, and overgrown or uncultivated vegetation that is hazardous, obstructs traffic, or is likely to harbor rats, vermin, or other pests. Item 36, Rats, covers accumulation of garbage or refuse that constitutes a health or safety hazard, consisting of waste, animal, or vegetable matter upon which rats may feed. Either condition lets the city pursue the standard nuisance abatement track in chapter 9.08: voluntary correction under section 9.08.080, an administrative notice with a completion date under section 9.08.090, and a monetary fine of $100 per day for the first week and $200 per day thereafter under section 9.08.100(B) if the responsible person misses the deadline.

Section 9.08.100 goes further for rodent conditions specifically: subsection H lets the city close an occupied business building that provides extensive harborage for rats until it is ratproofed, up to installing concrete floors or making other major repairs, and subsection I authorizes condemnation and destruction proceedings against an unoccupied building with the same problem. Separately, chapter 9.32 requires anyone who fumigates or exterminates insects, vermin, rodents, or other pests for commercial purposes to hold a permit from the state board of agriculture before doing the work; operating without one is unlawful under section 9.32.010.