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Title 76 - Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 13 - Offenses Involving Cruelty to Animals
Part 2 - Cruelty to Animal Offenses
Section 212 - Allowing a vicious animal to go at large.
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UT Code § 76-13-212 (2025)
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Effective 5/7/2025
76-13-212. Allowing a vicious animal to go at large.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 173, 2025 General Session
76-13-212. Allowing a vicious animal to go at large.
- (1)Terms defined in Sections 76-1-101.5, 76-13-101, and 76-13-201 apply to this section.
- (2)An actor commits allowing a vicious animal to go at large if:
- (a)the actor is an owner of a vicious animal, knowing the animal's propensities, and:
- (i)willfully allows the animal to go at large; or
- (ii)keeps the animal without ordinary care; and
- (b)the animal, while at large, or while not kept with ordinary care, causes injury to or the death of another animal or a human being who has taken reasonable precautions under the circumstances.
- (a)the actor is an owner of a vicious animal, knowing the animal's propensities, and:
- (3)
- (a)Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b), a violation of Subsection (2) is a class B misdemeanor.
- (b)A violation of Subsection (2) is a third degree felony if the animal causes the death of a human being.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 173, 2025 General Session
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