Weber County, UT Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

010, "Obstructions In Right-Of-Way," targets dumping on county-owned land rather than on a private lot. It makes it unlawful for any person to place or deposit garbage, an inoperable or abandoned vehicle, junk, weeds, or any other vegetation in or upon a public street, right-of-way, or other public property anywhere in the unincorporated county, if the deposited material could interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic or in any way endanger the health, safety, and welfare of county residents. The section was most recently amended by Ordinance 2023-10 on May 16, 2023, replacing an earlier, near-identical version of the same rule that had sat in § 108-7-6(e).

020, puts continual removal of vegetation overgrowth on the shoulders of the owner or occupant of land adjoining a public right-of-way, pedestrian pathway, or sidewalk, and layers on a snow-removal obligation for platted lots or lots of record under five acres with an existing residential, commercial, or manufacturing use that front a paved pedestrian pathway. Because the rule sits in Title 108's Land Use Code rather than a separate solid-waste title, it is enforced by the county's Planning Division Director as code enforcement official rather than by the sheriff's office, and it reaches materials dumped in a ditch, borrow pit, or roadside right-of-way as readily as items left on the paved travel lane itself.

The rule does not require proof the material actually caused an accident, only that it may interfere with traffic or endanger public health, safety, or welfare, which the county can establish from photographs and an officer's or code enforcement officer's on-site observations.