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2025 Utah Code
Title 4 - Utah Agricultural Code
Chapter 26 - Enclosures and Fences
Section 101 - Title -- Failure to close entrance to enclosure -- Class C misdemeanor -- Damages.
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UT Code § 4-26-101 (2025)
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Effective 7/1/2017
4-26-101. Title -- Failure to close entrance to enclosure -- Class C misdemeanor -- Damages.
Amended by Chapter 345, 2017 General Session
4-26-101. Title -- Failure to close entrance to enclosure -- Class C misdemeanor -- Damages.
- (1) This chapter is known as "Enclosures and Fences."
- (2) A person who willfully throws down a fence or opens bars or gates into any enclosure other than the person's own enclosure or into any enclosure jointly owned or occupied by such person and others, and leaves the enclosure open:
- (a) is guilty of a class C misdemeanor; and
- (b) is liable in damage for any injury sustained by any person as a result of such an act.
Amended by Chapter 345, 2017 General Session
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