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2012 Utah Code
Title 57 - Real Estate
Article 14 - Limitations on Landowner Liability
Section 401 - Inherent risks of activities with a recreational purpose on certain lands.

Universal Citation:
UT Code ยง 57-14-401 (2012)
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57-14-401. Inherent risks of activities with a recreational purpose on certain lands.

(1) Notwithstanding Section 57-14-202 to the contrary, a person may not make a claim against or recover from an owner of any land, as defined in this chapter, including land in developed or improved, urban or semi-rural areas opened to the general public without charge, such as a lake, pond, park, trail, waterway, or other recreation site, for personal injury or property damage caused by the inherent risks of participating in an activity with a recreational purpose on the land.

(2) Nothing in this section may be construed to relieve a person participating in a recreational purpose from an obligation that the person would have in the absence of this section to exercise due care or from the legal consequences of a failure to exercise due care.


Enacted by Chapter 212, 2013 General Session

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