Utah · statute · Utah Code tit. 65A · 112 active provisions
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 entit…
(1) (a) The Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands is created within the Department of Natural Resources under the administration and general supervision of the executive director of the department. (b) The division is the executive authority for the management of sovereign lands, and the state's mineral estates o…
(1) (a) The attorney general shall represent the division in any legal action relating to state lands and, upon request by the director, may institute action to enforce the provisions of this title. (b) Whenever an action is brought contesting a decision or act of the division, the division may be named a party in the…
(1) The director may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents in adjudicative proceedings authorized by law. (2) The director may administer oaths in the performance of the council's or division's official duties.
Division employees may not directly or indirectly acquire any interest in state lands.
Employees and agents of the division are subject to Title 67, Chapter 16, Utah Public Officers' and Employees' Ethics Act.
(1) The division may keep geologic and financial information, which the provider and the division agree is of a proprietary nature, confidential unless the information is required by federal or state law to be of a nonproprietary nature. (2) The division shall adopt rules to determine when to accept confidential inform…
(1) For the purpose of determining compliance with any rule or any performance or payment obligation under a lease, permit, or contract, the division may, at reasonable times, places, and intervals: (a) require that the lessee, permittee, or contractor provide any pertinent books, records, or other documents of the les…
Any application or bid required for the lease, permitting, or sale of state lands in a competitive process shall be considered filed or made on the date received by the appropriate division office, whether transmitted by the United States mail or in any other manner.
The division shall administer state lands under comprehensive land management programs using multiple-use sustained yield principles.
The division: (1) shall develop planning procedures for natural and cultural resources on state lands; and (2) may request other state agencies to generate technical data or other management support services for the development and implementation of state land management plans.
The division may make determinations concerning the management, protection, and conservation of plant species officially designated as endangered or threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, on state lands.
(1) The division shall adopt rules for notifying and consulting with interested parties including the general public, resources users, and federal, state, and local agencies on state land management plans. (2) Division rules shall provide: (a) for reasonable notice and comment periods; and (b) that the division respond…
The director of the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands, in conjunction with the Wildlife Board, may restrict or limit public use of leased parcels of sovereign lands for hunting, trapping, or fishing: (1) upon the petition of the affected lessee; (2) after a public hearing; and (3) upon a determination that un…
(1) As used in this section, "motorboat" means the same as that term is defined in Section 73-18-2. (2) The division shall issue a permit to an applicant that allows the applicant to launch or retrieve a motorboat on state lands surrounding Bear Lake. (3) A permit is required to launch or retrieve a motorboat on state…
The division shall: (1) designate state lands along Highway 30 from the Ideal Beach RV Park and Spinnaker Marina southward approximately four miles to Rendezvous Beach State Park, which lands are located in Township 13N, Range 5E, Sections 003, 010, 015, 022, and 023, as an area for the ongoing development of facilitie…
(1) As used in this section, "commission" means the Jordan River Commission created by interlocal agreement. (2) Subject to applicable federal, state, and local laws and Subsections (3) through (5), the division may expend money for: (a) enhancing safety, recreation, and conservation along the Jordan River; (b) a capit…
(1) As used in this section: (a) "Anchored" means the same as that term is defined in Section 73-18-2. (b) "Beached" means the same as that term is defined in Section 73-18-2. (c) "Motorboat" means the same as that term is defined in Section 73-18-2. (d) "Motor vehicle" means the same as that term is defined in Section…
(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 perfor…
(1) As used in this section: (a) "Incident commander" means the government official or employee in command of the response to a wildland fire. (b) "Neutralize" means to terminate the operation of an unmanned aircraft by: (i) disabling or damaging the unmanned aircraft; (ii) interfering with any portion of the unmanned…
(1) It is the duty of the Division of Law Enforcement, county sheriffs, county sheriff deputies, peace officers, other law enforcement officers within the law enforcement jurisdiction, and the division to enforce the provisions of this chapter and to investigate and gather evidence that may indicate a violation under t…
(1) As used in this section: (a) "Electric cooperative" means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-24-102. (b) "Electrical transmission wildland fire protection plan" means a wildland fire protection plan, as defined in Section 54-24-102, that is: (i) prepared and submitted by a qualified utility and approved…
(1) All state agencies may acquire land by gift, devise, bequest, exchange, compensation for public resource value loss, or in satisfaction of a debt and are authorized to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of land no longer needed for public purposes, unless otherwise provided by law. (2) The proceeds from the sale, le…
(1) The division shall maintain a central index of all lands owned by agencies of the Department of Natural Resources and shall make that index available for the public. (2) All agencies of the Department of Natural Resources having any right, title, or interest in lands shall furnish the division with the following in…
(1) Mineral leases of all lands owned by the state, except school and institutional trust lands, shall be made exclusively through the division, pursuant to division rules, with the consent of the state agency using or holding the land. (2) (a) All revenues from mineral leases of sovereign lands shall be deposited in t…