2006 Utah Code - 40-1-11 — Interfering with notices, stakes or monuments -- Penalty.

     40-1-11.   Interfering with notices, stakes or monuments -- Penalty.
     Any person who willfully or maliciously tears down or defaces a notice posted on a mining claim, or takes up or destroys any stake or monument marking any such claim, or interferes with any person lawfully in possession of such claim, or who alters, erases, defaces or destroys any record kept by a mining district or county recorder, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

No Change Since 1953