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2025 Utah Code
Title 65A - Forestry, Fire, and State Lands
Chapter 3 - Illegal Activities on State Lands and Wildland Fire Liability
Section 2 - Wildland fire prevention -- Prohibited acts.

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UT Code § 65A-3-2 (2025)
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Effective 5/12/2015
65A-3-2. Wildland fire prevention -- Prohibited acts.
  • (1) A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor who:
    • (a) throws or places a lighted cigarette, cigar, firecracker, ashes, or other flaming or glowing substance that may cause a fire on a highway or a wildland fire;
    • (b) obstructs the state forester, an employee of the division, or an agent of the division, in the performance of controlling a fire;
    • (c) refuses, on proper request of the state forester, an employee of the division, or an agent of the division, to assist in the controlling of a fire, without good and sufficient reason; or
    • (d) fires a tracer or incendiary ammunition:
      • (i) anywhere except within the confines of established military reservations; or
      • (ii) except with the written permission of the director of the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands, given upon written request, if the director:
        • (A) specifies a limited period of time and a limited area in which the ammunition may be used; and
        • (B) issues the written permission in accordance with this title and applicable rules.
  • (2) Fines assessed under this section are deposited in the General Fund.


Amended by Chapter 78, 2015 General Session
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