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2023 Utah Code
Title 41 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 22 - Off-highway Vehicles
Section 12.2 - Unlawful cross-country motor vehicle travel on public land.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 41-22-12.2 (2023)
Effective 1/1/2023
41-22-12.2. Unlawful cross-country motor vehicle travel on public land.
Amended by Chapter 143, 2022 General Session
41-22-12.2. Unlawful cross-country motor vehicle travel on public land.
- (1) A person may not operate and an owner of a motor vehicle may not give another person permission to operate a motor vehicle cross-country on any public land not designated for that use by the controlling agency.
- (2) A person who violates this section is guilty of an infraction.
- (3)
- (a)
- (i) As part of any sentence for a conviction of a violation of this section, the court shall order the person to perform community service in the form of repairing any damage to the public land caused by the unlawful cross-country motor vehicle travel, with a minimum sentence calculated as described in Subsection (3)(b).
- (ii) The court shall order the community service described in Subsection (3)(a)(i) to occur at the location or locations where the person caused damage to the public land.
- (b) For the community service required in Subsection (3)(a), the court shall:
- (i) determine the approximate value of the damage caused by the unlawful cross-country motor vehicle travel; and
- (ii) calculate the number of hours of community service required to cover the cost of the damage caused by dividing the approximate value determined pursuant to Subsection (3)(b)(i) by a rate of $25 per hour.
- (a)
Amended by Chapter 143, 2022 General Session
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