2018 Utah Code
Title 41 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 6a - Traffic Code
Part 2 - Applicability and Obedience to Traffic Laws
Section 216 - Removal of plants or other obstructions impairing view -- Notice to owner -- Penalty.

Universal Citation: UT Code § 41-6a-216 (2018)
Effective 5/12/2015
41-6a-216. Removal of plants or other obstructions impairing view -- Notice to owner -- Penalty.
  • (1) The owner of real property shall remove from his property any tree, plant, shrub, or other obstruction, or part of it that constitutes a traffic hazard by obstructing the view of an operator of a vehicle on a highway.
  • (2) When a highway authority determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that a traffic hazard exists, it shall notify the owner and order that the hazard be removed within 10 days.
  • (3) The failure of the owner to remove the traffic hazard within 10 days is an infraction.


Amended by Chapter 412, 2015 General Session
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