Utah Code § 65A-1-1

Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session

Section 65A-1-1 - [Effective 1/1/2025] 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) "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.

(4) "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.

(5) "Municipality" means a city or town.

(6) "Public trust assets" means those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division.

(7) "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.

(8) "State lands" means all lands administered by the division.

(9) "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.

(10) "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.

(11) "Wildland fire" means a fire that consumes:

(a) wildland; or

(b) wildland-urban interface, as defined in Section 65A-8a-102.

Utah Code § 65A-1-1

Amended by Chapter 80, 2024 General Session ,§ 10, eff. 1/1/2025.

Amended by Chapter 438, 2024 General Session ,§ 110, eff. 5/1/2024.

Amended by Chapter 174, 2016 General Session ,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2017.

Amended by Chapter 413, 2013 General Session ,§ 20, eff. 5/14/2013.

Amended by Chapter 361, 2012 General Session ,§ 1, eff. 5/8/2012.

Amended by Chapter 344, 2009 General Session

This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.