2025 Utah Code
Title 23A - Wildlife Resources Act
Chapter 9 - Aquatic Wildlife
Part 2 - Operations
Section 201 - Screens or other devices required -- Failure to install after notice a misdemeanor.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 23A-9-201 (2025)
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Effective 7/1/2023
23A-9-201. Screens or other devices required -- Failure to install after notice a misdemeanor.
  • (1) A person may not take water from the state streams, lakes, or reservoirs for power purposes, or for waterworks, without first furnishing and maintaining suitable screens or other devices to prevent fish from entering the power plants, millraces, or waterworks system.
  • (2) A screen or other device is to be built and maintained under the direction of the Wildlife Board and at the expense of the owner or operator.
  • (3) A person who fails to install a screen or device within 30 days after the Wildlife Board gives notice in writing to install the screen or device is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 103, 2023 General Session
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