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2025 Utah Code
Title 73 - Water and Irrigation
Chapter 18 - State Boating Act
Section 20.3 - Falsified hull identification, engine, or motor number.
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UT Code § 73-18-20.3 (2025)
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Effective 5/7/2025
73-18-20.3. Falsified hull identification, engine, or motor number.
Amended by Chapter 302, 2025 General Session
73-18-20.3. Falsified hull identification, engine, or motor number.
- (1)A person is guilty of a third degree felony if the person:
- (a)with fraudulent intent defaces, destroys, or alters a vessel hull identification number or serial number for an engine or outboard motor;
- (b)places or stamps any vessel hull identification number upon a vessel or serial number upon an engine or outboard motor, except one assigned by the division or its authorized agent;
- (c)knowingly buys, receives, disposes of, sells, offers for sale, or possesses any vessel, or engine or outboard motor removed from a vessel, from which the vessel hull identification number or engine or outboard motor serial number, has been removed, defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed for the purpose of concealing or misrepresenting the identity of the vessel, engine, or outboard motor;
- (d)with intent to procure or pass title to a vessel or outboard motor, receives or transfers possession of a vessel or outboard motor which he knows or has reason to believe has been stolen or unlawfully taken; or
- (e)possesses a vessel or outboard motor which the person knows or has reason to believe has been stolen or unlawfully taken, unless the person is a peace officer engaged at the time in the performance of peace officer duties.
- (2)
- (a)This section does not prohibit the restoration by an owner of an original vessel hull identification number or manufacturer's serial number for an engine or outboard motor if the restoration is made by application to the division or its authorized agent.
- (b)This section does not prohibit any manufacturer from placing, in the ordinary course of business, numbers or marks upon vessels, motors, outboard motors, or parts.
Amended by Chapter 302, 2025 General Session
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