For purposes of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) 
"Animal"
shall mean any non-human mammal, reptile, amphibian, fish, or bird.
(2) 
"Animal Grooming Parlor"
shall mean any establishment offering cosmetic services for animals.
(3) 
"Animal Holding Facility"
shall mean any pet shop, kennel, grooming parlor, riding school, stable, animal shelter, veterinary hospital, or any other facility used for boarding animals.
(4) 
"Animal Shelter"
shall mean a facility owned or operated by a governmental entity or any animal welfare organization that is incorporated under the laws of the state of Utah and used for the care and custody of seized, stray, homeless, quarantined, abandoned or unwanted dogs, cats or other small domestic animals.
(5) 
"Animal-at-Large"
shall mean any domesticated animal, whether or not licensed, not under restraint.
(6) 
"Animal Under Restraint"
shall mean any animal under the control of its owner or custodian, except that a dog shall not be considered under control of the owner or custodian unless on a leash or lead not exceeding six feet (6') in length, confined within a vehicle, or upon the real property of the owner or custodian.
(7) 
"Bite"
shall mean an actual puncture, tear or abrasion of the skin inflicted by the teeth of an animal.
(8) 
"Cat"
shall mean a feline of the domesticated type of any age.
(9) 
"Custodian"
shall mean a person having the charge, care, custody or control of an animal.
(10) 
"Dog"
shall mean any Canis familiaris of the domesticated types.
(11) 
"Domesticated Animal"
shall mean any of the animals domesticated by man so as to live and breed in a tame condition, including, but not limited to, cats, dogs, fowl, horses, cattle, swine, sheep and goats.
(12) 
"Guard Dog"
shall mean a dog used by a commercial establishment for the purpose of deterring crime.
(13) 
"Kennel"
shall mean an establishment for boarding, buying, letting, training, or selling dogs or cats for profit.
(14) 
"Leash" or "Lead"
shall mean a chain, rope or device used to restrain an animal.
(15) 
"Pet"
shall mean a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility.
(16) 
"Pet Shop"
shall mean an establishment, not part of a kennel, containing cages or exhibition pens wherein dogs, cats, birds or other pets are kept for sale or display.
(17) 
"Quarantine"
shall mean the isolation of an animal in a substantial enclosure so that it may not come in contact with another animal or unauthorized person.
(18) 
"Riding School"
or stable shall mean an establishment which offers boarding or riding instruction for any horse, pony, donkey, mule or burro or which offers such animals for hire.
(19) 
"Stray"
shall mean any animal at large.
(20) 
(a) 
"Vicious Animal"
shall mean any animal (i) with a known propensity or disposition, without provocation, to attack, cause injury to, or otherwise endanger persons or other domestic animals; or (ii) which attacks any person or other domestic animal without provocation; or (iii) which is trained or used to fight or attack humans.
(b) 
Feeding a domestic animal to a snake shall not make the snake a vicious animal.
(c) 
A dog owned or used by a government entity shall not be deemed a vicious animal.
(21) 
"Wild Animal"
shall mean any of the following, regardless of how domesticated they may be:
(a) 
Alligators and crocodiles.
(b) 
Bears (Ursidae).
(c) 
Cats (Felidae), except the commonly accepted domesticated cats.
(d) 
Coyotes, foxes, and wolves, including hybrid wolves.
(e) 
Porcupines (Erethizontidae).
(f) 
Primates (Hominidae).
(g) 
Raccoons (Procyonidae).
(h) 
Skunks.
(i) 
Venomous snakes or venomous lizards, whose venom could cause significant injury or death.
(j) 
Venomous fish and piranhas.
(k) 
Weasels, including ferrets.
(l) 
Deer, elk, and antelope.
(1979 Code 3-7-101; adopted by Ordinance 4-88; amended by Ord. No. 9-98; Ord. No. 17-2024 § 1, 11/19/2024)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to commit cruelty to animals within the city.
(2) 
A person commits cruelty to animals if he intentionally or knowingly:
(a) 
tortures, maims, disfigures, beats, mutilates, burns, scalds, maliciously kills, or seriously overworks an animal; or
(b) 
fails to provide necessary food, care or shelter for an animal in his custody; or
(c) 
abandons an animal in his custody; or
(d) 
transports or confines an animal in a cruel manner, including carrying or confining an animal without adequate ventilation; or
(e) 
kills, injures or administers poison to an animal without legal privilege; or
(f) 
causes one animal to fight with another.
(3) 
It is a defense to prosecution under this Section that the conduct of the actor toward the animal was by a licensed veterinarian using accepted veterinary practice or directly related to a bona fide experimentation for scientific research, provided that if the animal is to be destroyed, the manner employed will not be unnecessarily cruel unless directly necessary to the veterinary purpose or scientific research involved. It is also a defense to prosecution under this Section that the conduct of the actor toward the animal was in the course of an generally accepted husbandry or agricultural practice.
(4) 
It shall be the duty of every person to provide any animal in that person's charge or custody to provide the animal with adequate food, water, care and shelter. Any person failing to do so shall be guilty of cruelty to animals as set forth in this section.
(1979 Code 3-7-102; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ord. No. 9-98)
Except as permitted under this Section or under Section 3-7-102(3), it shall be unlawful for any person by any means to make accessible to any animal, with intent to cause harm or death, any poison or any substance which has in any manner been treated or prepared with any harmful or poisonous substance. This provision shall not be interpreted so as to prohibit the use of poisonous substances for the control of vermin in furtherance of the public health when applied in such a manner as to reasonably prevent access thereto by other animals.
(1979 Code 3-7-103; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any owner or custodian of an animal to abandon such animal within the City.
(2) 
When it becomes necessary to destroy any domestic animal because of age, sickness, or other cause which renders the destruction of the animal necessary or desirable, it shall be the responsibility of the owner or custodian of such animal to humanely dispose of the animal.
(3) 
If an owner or custodian of an animal no longer desires to keep the animal as a pet, the owner or custodian shall transfer the animal to a new owner or custodian or cause the animal to be destroyed by a licensed veterinarian or delivered to an animal control officer or other animal shelter for adoption or destruction. The Springville City animal control officer shall take custody of an animal when a release form is signed by the owner or custodian and the required fee paid. The fee shall be set from time to time by a resolution of the City Council.
(1979 Code 3-7-104; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ord. No. 9-98)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of any animal that shall die or be killed within the limits of the City to fail to remove or dispose of the carcass of such animal within ten (10) hours after its death. The carcass shall be removed or disposed of only in accordance with applicable health department regulations.
(2) 
Except in the A-1 Agricultural Zone, no animal carcass with weight greater than ten (10) pounds shall be buried within the City.
(3) 
When any animal carcass is buried within the City, it shall be buried in such a manner that the carcass is a minimum two feet (2') above the groundwater table and is covered by a minimum of two feet (2') of earth.
(1979 Code 3-7-105; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ordinance No. 10-91)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to in any manner whatever encourage or urge dogs or any other animals or fowl to fight or to urge them after they commence to fight.
(2) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to raise, keep or use any animal for the purpose of fighting or baiting or for any person to knowingly permit the use of his buildings, shed, rooms, yard, grounds or premises for such purposes.
(3) 
Law enforcement officers and animal control officers may enter any building or place where there is an exhibition of fighting or baiting of a live animal, or where preparations for such an exhibition are being made, and may arrest persons present there and take possession of all animals engaged in fighting or kept for fighting or baiting, and may impound all paraphernalia used in connection therewith. This paragraph shall not be interpreted to authorize a search or arrest without a warrant when such is required by law.
(1979 Code 3-7-106; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88)
It shall be unlawful for any pet shop to raise or sell any turtle of the following species: Pseudemys scripta elegans, or Pseudemys troostii, family Testudinidae.
(1979 Code 3-7-107; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to have as a pet or otherwise keep or maintain within the limits of the City any wild animal except by specific written authorization from the Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Each day that such an animal is kept by any person in violation of this subsection shall constitute a separate and distinct violation.
(2) 
Whenever a wild animal bites a person so as to cause a break or penetration or abrasion of the skin, any person having knowledge of that fact shall immediately notify an Animal Control Officer. The animal shall be immediately destroyed and its head delivered to the Utah State Department of Health as provided by the regulations of that department.
(3) 
It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of a wild animal which has bitten a person to fail, refuse, or neglect to allow, or in any way prevent, an Animal Control Officer from destroying such animal.
(4) 
It is unlawful to feed or bait wild animals. A person shall not make food available for wild animals with the intent that it be consumed by or attract wild animals. This Section does not apply to planted vegetation or landscaping elements that are not intended for feeding wild animals. Wild animals are defined in Section 3-7-101(21).
(5) 
Subsection (4) of this Section does not apply to:
(a) 
Public employees or authorized agents acting within the scope of their employment for public safety or wildlife management purposes;
(b) 
Normal agricultural or livestock operation practices; or
(c) 
Recreational feeding of wild song birds, hummingbirds, or passerine birds, unless a previous warning by the City to cease or modify feeding practices is disregarded and such continued practices attract wild animals in such numbers or circumstances to cause property damage, endanger any person, or create public health concerns.
(1979 Code 3-7-108; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; Ord. No. 07-2016 § 1, 05/03/2016)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to own, keep, or harbor a vicious animal, except a guard dog, within the limits of the City.
(2) 
If an Animal Control Officer finds reasonable cause to believe that an animal is vicious, he may, pending a judicial determination that the animal is vicious, require the owner or custodian to either show sufficient ability to secure the animal so that it cannot come into contact with other persons or animals or remove the animal from the City. In the alternative, the Animal Control Officer may impound the animal pending such judicial determination.
(3) 
Each guard dog shall be kept in such a manner that it cannot come into contact with other persons or animals who are legally upon the premises where the guard dog is kept. The owner or occupant of each premises where a guard dog is kept shall post a sign with lettering at least three inches (3'') in height warning the public of the guard dog.
(4) 
Upon conviction of any person under subsection (1) of this Section, the court may order that the animal be removed from the City by the owner or custodian thereof within twenty-four (24) hours, or that the animal be destroyed by an Animal Control Officer or designee. In addition to any other penalty which may be imposed by the court upon such conviction, the court shall make an order requiring the owner or custodian to comply with this subsection and shall, upon request of an Animal Control Officer or law enforcement officer, issue such writ or writs as may be required to carry out this subsection.
(5) 
If an animal is impounded pursuant to this Section pending a judicial determination that the animal is vicious, the owner of the animal shall pay all costs of impounding the animal and all costs of care and keep of the animal during the time such judicial determination is pending, including any time during which the matter is on appeal. The court which makes the determination that the animal is vicious may require the owner of the animal to pay such costs. The City may also maintain an appropriate civil action for collection of such costs from the owner of the animal.
(1979 Code 3-7-109; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ordinance Nos. 5-92, 9-98 and 16-2011, 08/02/2011)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to own, keep or harbor within the City an animal which is a nuisance.
(2) 
An animal is a nuisance if it does any of the following:
(a) 
Causes damage to the property of any person other than its owner or custodian.
(b) 
Barks, whines, or howls or makes other disturbing noises in an excessive, continuous or untimely fashion. "Disturbing noises in an excessive fashion" shall mean an animal barking, baying, crying, howling or making any other noise continuously for a period of ten (10) minutes, or barking intermittently for one-half (1/2) hour or more to the disturbance of any person at any time of day or night regardless of whether the animal is physically situated in or upon private property; provided, however, that an animal shall not be in violation if, at the time the animal is barking or making any other noise, a person is trespassing or threatening to trespass upon private property in or upon which the animal is situated, the animal is teased or provoked or the noise is a result of sirens or emergency vehicles.
(c) 
Molests or frightens passersby by threatening, nipping, chasing, jumping upon or biting without breaking the skin or chases vehicles.
(d) 
Causes objectionable odors on premises other than those of the owner or custodian.
(e) 
Defecates on any public street, sidewalk, park, or building, or on any private property without the consent of the owner of the property, unless the owner or custodian of the animal shall immediately remove and lawfully dispose of any such defecation.
(f) 
Is one (1) of a number of animals kept on the premises which exceed the prudent and reasonable number of animals for such premises or which exceed the reasonable capacity of the facilities provided for them.
(3) 
If an Animal Control Officer finds reasonable cause to believe that an animal is a nuisance, he may notify the owner or custodian of the animal in writing of the nuisance and shall require in the notice that the nuisance shall be abated within two (2) days.
(4) 
If the Animal Control Officer determines that the animal constitutes an immediate threat to the public health or safety, or the animal is in violation of subsection (2)(b) or (2)(c) of this section, and no owner or custodian of the animal is present to control the animal, the Animal Control Officer or a police officer may immediately impound the animal.
(5) 
If an animal is impounded pursuant to this Section pending a judicial determination that the animal is a nuisance, the owner of the animal shall pay all costs of impounding the animal and all costs of care and keep of the animal during the time such judicial determination is pending, including any time during which the matter is on appeal. The court which makes the determination that the animal is a nuisance may require the owner of the animal to pay such costs. The City may also maintain an appropriate civil action for collection of such costs from the owner of the animal.
(6) 
Nothing contained in this Section shall apply to noises from legally operated farms or agricultural facilities.
(1979 Code 3-7-110; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ordinances No. 5-92 and 18-02; Ord. No. 10-2012, 10/16/2012)
It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of any animal to allow the same to be at large at any time within the limits of the City. It shall not be a defense to prosecution under this Section that the owner or custodian did not know that the animal was at large, nor shall it be a defense that the owner or custodian took reasonable precautions to confine, restrain, or prevent the escape of the animal.
(1979 Code 3-7-111; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88)
It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of any animal to stake the same out on a public street or knowingly or intentionally turn the same loose upon the streets or public property within the City.
(1979 Code 3-7-112; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow an animal owned by or in the control of that person to defecate or urinate upon private property not owned or in control of that person.
(2) 
When any animal defecates on any street, sidewalk, or other public place, or on any private property without the consent of the owner thereof, it shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of the animal to fail to clean up the defecation and properly dispose of it.
(1979 Code 3-7-113; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ord. No. 9-98)
All premises where animals may be tethered, corralled, confined, sheltered or fed shall be maintained in a neat and sanitary condition, so that no unhealthy conditions and/or nuisance due to unsightliness, odor, or pest breeding shall be caused by such animals or premises.
(1979 Code 3-7-114; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; Ord. No. 17-2024 § 1, 11/19/2024)
(1) 
No manure or barn cleaning shall be stacked or caused or permitted to be stacked or piled within two hundred feet (200') of any place used in whole or in part for dwelling purposes, unless stored in a closed bin covered to prevent breeding and access of flies thereto.
(2) 
No person shall keep any live swine or pigs in the City; and, except for dogs and cats, no animal shall be kept or maintained closer than one hundred feet (100') from a dwelling other than the dwelling of a person keeping or having such animal or animals, and no barn, pen, or corral shall be maintained closer than one hundred feet (100') to any street.
(3) 
No chicken coop, house, or pen, or any other structure used for any containment of fowl, including pigeons, except for household pets, shall be kept or maintained closer than one hundred feet (100') from the door or window of any dwelling other than the dwelling of the person keeping or having the same except for permitted chicken coops as set forth in Article 8 of this Chapter.
(1979 Code 3-7-115; adopted by Ordinance No. 4-88; amended by Ord. No. 9-98; Ord. No. 06-2014, 03/19/2014)