Lehi, UT Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Set-out window
- Cart off street within 24 hrs of pickup
- Receptacle condition
- Clean, covered except loading/unloading
- Waste ownership
- Vests in city once set out
- Max fine
- $750 individual, $1,000 corporation
- Enforcement
- Administrative code enforcement hearing program
Summary
Lehi treats a garbage can left at the curb more than 24 hours after collection day as a nuisance, and every solid waste, recycling and green waste receptacle must stay covered except while it is being filled or emptied. Both rules sit in the City Code's solid waste and nuisance chapters.
19. Garbage Can: The leaving of any garbage can or refuse container in the street, other than on collection day, for more than twenty four (24) hours after the collection day.
Full Breakdown
" A resident can wheel a cart out the evening before pickup and must bring it back in within a day of service. " Section 5-1-7 further restricts what goes where: solid waste only in the solid waste receptacle, and recycling and green waste containers limited to approved recycling and green waste material respectively. Once waste is set out for collection, ownership vests in the city or its designee under section 5-1-3, so residents may not pull items back out of a cart at the curb.
The nuisance chapter is administered through the city's administrative code enforcement hearing program under section 5-2-6, and a responsible person, defined broadly to include owners, tenants and occupants under section 5-2-5, is liable to the city for any abatement costs the city incurs.
Violations & Fines
A garbage can nuisance violation or an uncovered receptacle is enforced through Lehi's administrative code enforcement hearing program. Violations of the solid waste chapter carry a class C misdemeanor under section 5-1-14, punishable per section 1-4-1 by a fine of up to $750 for an individual conviction or $1,000 for a corporation, with each day a violation continues charged as a separate offense.
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