Eagle Mountain, UT Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum frequency
- once a week for standard solid waste
- Higher frequency trigger
- overflow, rodent harborage, fire or health hazard
- Service
- mandatory monthly billed charge for every dwelling
- Delinquency
- charges unpaid 30+ days go to civil collection
- Governing sections
- EMMC 8.05.420 and 8.05.350
Summary
Eagle Mountain requires solid waste to be collected at least once a week under EMMC 8.05.420, with more frequent removal required if waste would otherwise overfill containers, attract rodents, or create a fire or health hazard. Every residential and multifamily dwelling owner is billed monthly for the mandatory service under EMMC 8.05.350.
Solid waste, except bulky waste, shall be removed from the storage containers on premises and disposed at least once a week. Waste of every kind shall be removed from commercial, industrial, institutional, residential and recreational properties as often as necessary to prevent a nuisance, overfilling of storage containers, rodent harborage, or the creation of a fire hazard or unsanitary conditions, and at minimum of once a week to prevent other adverse health or nuisance conditions. ... The owner of every residential dwelling unit or multifamily dwelling unit shall be responsible and liable for the monthly charges enumerated in the Eagle Mountain City consolidated fee schedule for solid waste collection services.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance O-34-2026, passed August 4, 2026).
Full Breakdown
420 sets a floor, not a ceiling, on how often solid waste must leave a property. 450, waste stored in containers on the premises must be removed and disposed of at least once a week. The chapter pushes collection frequency higher when weekly service isn't enough: waste from commercial, industrial, institutional, residential, and recreational properties must be removed as often as necessary to prevent a nuisance, keep containers from overflowing, stop rodent harborage, or avoid creating a fire hazard or unsanitary conditions, with once a week as the floor for every property type.
400, and the city designates the time and place for collection it hauls directly. 350 makes the owner of every residential or multifamily dwelling unit responsible for the monthly charge listed in the city's consolidated fee schedule, billed periodically to whichever address the city has on record, even if a tenant is billed at the owner's request. 360 treats unpaid charges over 30 days as delinquent and subject to a civil collection action, including the city's attorney's fees and collection costs. 00, from any user of the service who isn't the property owner. 630.
Violations & Fines
Solid waste that isn't removed at least once a week, or isn't removed often enough to prevent overflow, rodent harborage, or a fire or health hazard, violates EMMC 8.05.420. Unpaid collection charges become delinquent after 30 days under EMMC 8.05.360 and are subject to civil collection, including the city's attorney's fees. A chapter violation that isn't corrected after written notice is a Class B misdemeanor under EMMC 8.05.630, with fines set by the consolidated fee schedule.
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