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2025 Utah Code
Title 65A - Forestry, Fire, and State Lands
Chapter 1 - Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands
Section 1 - Definitions.
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UT Code § 65A-1-1 (2025)
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Effective 7/1/2025
65A-1-1. Definitions.
As used in this title:
Amended by Chapter 113, 2025 General Session
65A-1-1. Definitions.
As used in this title:
- (1)"Division" means the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands.
- (2)"Division of Law Enforcement" means the division within the Department of Natural Resources created under Title 79, Chapter 2, Part 7, Division of Law Enforcement.
- (3)"Fire service provider" means a public or private entity that fulfills the duties of Subsection 11-7-1(1).
- (4)"Initial attack" means action taken by the first resource to arrive at a wildland fire incident, including evaluating the wildland fire, patrolling, monitoring, holding action, or aggressive suppression action.
- (5)"Multiple use" means the management of various surface and subsurface resources in a manner that will best meet the present and future needs of the people of this state.
- (6)"Municipality" means a city or town.
- (7)"Public trust assets" means those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division.
- (8)"Sovereign lands" means those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date of statehood and owned by the state by virtue of its sovereignty.
- (9)"State lands" means all lands administered by the division.
- (10)"Sustained yield" means the achievement and maintenance of high level annual or periodic output of the various renewable resources of land without impairment of the productivity of the land.
- (11)"Wildland" means an area where:
- (a)development is essentially non-existent, except for roads, railroads, powerlines, or similar transportation facilities; and
- (b)structures, if any, are widely scattered.
- (12)"Wildland fire" means a fire that consumes:
- (a)wildland; or
- (b)wildland-urban interface.
- (13)"Wildland-urban interface" means the zone where structures and other human development meets, or intermingles with, undeveloped wildland.
Amended by Chapter 113, 2025 General Session
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