South Jordan, UT Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Rule
- No blocking sidewalks/roadways/alleys/lots
- Enforcer
- Public Works Director
- Exception
- Neighborhood Dumpster Program
- Commercial siting
- Site plan or screened from view
Summary
South Jordan bans placing a solid waste container on sidewalks, roadways, alleyways or parking lots where it blocks pedestrians or traffic, with narrow exceptions for the city's own Neighborhood Dumpster Program.
To place a solid waste container on any sidewalk, roadway, alleyway, or parking lot so as to impede pedestrian movement or vehicle traffic. The Public Works Director may make exceptions for the City Neighborhood Dumpster Program or in other instances where he or she finds that granting an exception is in the best interest of the City and would not harm public health, safety, welfare. To dump solid waste in a landfill, which is of a type prohibited from deposit in a landfill, or in an unapproved location within a landfill. To engage in residential collection. This provision does not apply to the City, a commercial hauler contracted by the City to engage in residential collection, or to a private hauler. To act as a commercial hauler without a license therefor. To knowingly file a false or inaccurate report of gross revenues with the City Treasurer. For the owner of a structure, which does not qualify to receive residential collection service, to fail or refuse to contract for sufficient service from a licensed commercial hauler to remove all solid waste generated at the structure with respect to which he or she is an owner. This subsection does not apply if the owner is a licensed private hauler. For the owner of a structure receiving service from a commercial hauler to fail or refuse to maintain the site of the solid waste container in a reasonably clean condition.
Full Breakdown
City Code § 7.01.050 makes it unlawful to place a solid waste container, including a dumpster or roll-off, on a sidewalk, roadway, alleyway or parking lot so that it impedes pedestrian movement or vehicle traffic. The Public Works Director may grant exceptions, including for the city-run Neighborhood Dumpster Program used for organized neighborhood cleanups, or in other cases found to serve the city's interest without harming public health, safety or welfare. Commercial and industrial haulers' containers are separately required by § 7.03.090 to sit on a site plan-approved location or be screened so they can't be seen from public property.
Violations & Fines
Blocking a sidewalk, roadway, alleyway or parking lot with a solid waste container violates § 7.01.050; commercial container siting or screening violations under § 7.03.090 are a Class B misdemeanor enforced by the Public Works Director or a designee.
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