2019 Utah Code
Title 57 - Real Estate
Chapter 14 - Limitations on Landowner Liability
Part 4 - Activities with a Recreational Purpose on Certain Lands
Section 401 - Activities with a recreational purpose on certain lands.

Universal Citation: UT Code § 57-14-401 (2019)
Effective 5/14/2019
57-14-401. 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, 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 either directly or indirectly by 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.


Amended by Chapter 345, 2019 General Session
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