Taylorsville, UT Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

Chapter 9.08 defines twenty listed nuisances, and item nineteen targets garbage can placement directly: a can or refuse container left in the street other than on the scheduled collection day, or kept there more than twelve hours before or after that day, is a nuisance the city can abate. The same clause reaches containers that are simply worn out, rusted or filthy, so a resident cannot solve the timing problem by leaving a damaged can out indefinitely either. Enforcement runs through the abatement process in §§ 9.08.060 through 9.08.100, not through a police citation.

A city designated representative documents the violation and either negotiates a voluntary correction agreement under § 9.08.080 or issues an administrative notice under § 9.08.090 setting a completion date. If the can is still out past that date, § 9.08.100(B) imposes a monetary fine: one hundred dollars per day for the first week the violation continues, then two hundred dollars per day after that, plus the city's own cost of correcting the condition if it has to act directly. Section 9.08.100(A) also lets the city summarily abate an emergent hazard without prior notice.

A property owner who disputes the notice can appeal to a hearing officer under § 9.08.110; the hearing officer is the mayor or the mayor's appointee with city council consent. Because this sits in the nuisance chapter rather than the solid waste licensing chapter, the responsible party is whoever controls the property, owner or tenant, and each day of noncompliance after the completion date is treated as its own continuing violation for fine purposes.