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Definitions

Deleterious Object: Anything injurious, or with the reasonable potential to become injurious to the health, safety or welfare of any persons.

Junk: Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris whether or not stored or used in conjunction with dismantling, processing, salvage, storage, disposal or other use or disposition. Junk includes but is not limited to, tires, furniture, tools paper, rags, plastics, cordage, scrap iron or other metal, glass, building materials, machinery and appliances or parts thereof, brush, wood and lumber, solid waste, and vehicles and parts thereof.

Storage, Outdoor: The keeping of any personal property, equipment, materials, products, junk, trash, or building materials that is not entirely contained within a structure that is completely enclosed by walls and a roof.

Solid Waste: Garbage, refuse, rubbish, hazardous waste, dead animals, sludge, liquid or semi-liquid waste, and other spent, useless or worthless or discarded materials.

Weeds: Vegetation that has become a fire hazard, vegetation that is noxious, a nuisance or dangerous. Grasses, stubble, brush, tumbleweeds, clippings and cuttings that endanger the public health and safety by creating a fire hazard; insect, rodent or other vermin harborage, or other nuisance. Poison ivy and plants specified as weeds in the Utah Noxious Weed Act.

Top 10 Violations

All vehicles on the property must be licensed and operable. Any inoperable or unlicensed (when licenses and registration have been expired for a period of 4 months) vehicles must be removed from your property, or stored in a completely enclosed structure. This includes any and all vehicle parts. If vehicles are being restored, a Restoration Permit is required and can be obtained from the Police Department.
Layton City Code 6.24.170 and 6.24.175

All vehicles and trailers must be parked on a hard surface. (Layton City Code 19.12.030, 19.12.100, and 10.62.030)

All weeds on property must be maintained so they do not exceed 12” in height.
(Layton City Code 6.24.070)

All solid waste, litter, and any items in disuse must be removed from your property.
(Layton City Code 6.24.070)

Trees and bushes must be cut and maintained 7’above the sidewalk and 13’6” above the street.
(Layton City Code 19.16.080d)

Any recreation vehicle, trailer, boat or similar apparatus can only be parked upon a public street for the immediate loading or unloading and never longer than a twenty-four consecutive hour period.
(Layton City Code 10.62.030.5)

To display a vehicle for sale unless the property is properly zoned for such use and without first getting permission from the owner of the property
(Layton City Code 10.64.050)

Every vehicle parked upon the roadway needs to have right hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the right hand curb.
(Utah Traffic Code 41-6a-1402)

To park a vehicle in any location that interferes with the delivery of essential services, such as utilities, postal services and garbage collection.
(Layton City Code 10.62.030.8)

To park a vehicle over, above, on or across any sidewalk or to park in a way, which obstructs access to the sidewalk.
(Layton City Code 10.62.030.2)


Contact

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Layton City Police Department
429 N Wasatch Dr
Layton, UT 84041

Phone Numbers:
911 Emergencies
(801) 497-8300 Non Emergency
(801) 336-3477 Administration Offices