Weber County, UT Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Section 32-4-6, part of Chapter 32-4 governing county sidewalks, makes it unlawful to construct, place, keep or maintain upon or across any sidewalk an open ditch, flume, conduit, waterway, headgate, log, building material, vehicle, an unprotected railway crossing, or any other obstruction. The section carves out one narrow exception: building material and vehicles may sit on a public highway temporarily if the placement does not impede, endanger or obstruct ordinary traffic, but nothing may remain there against an instruction from the Board of County Commissioners to move it. The section separately bars piling dirt, earth, stone or material, or cutting, excavating or filling a sidewalk, in a way that interferes with its ordinary use or departs from the grade the commissioners have fixed for it.

A companion section, 32-4-7, bars driving or leaving a wagon, buggy, team, horse, cow, mule or other animal or vehicle on a sidewalk except when crossing it to reach abutting property, and makes county road-district supervisors responsible for treating any encroachment under the chapter as an obstruction. Section 32-4-5 similarly requires any porch, platform or pipe built across a sidewalk to sit at or below grade and stay in good repair so it isn't dangerous to pedestrians. Together the sections recodify former Code of 1985 Sections 23-5-6 through 23-5-8, all originating in the county's pre-1985 road code.