Title 23A, Wildlife Resources Act

23A-6-203. Payments in lieu of property taxes on property purchased by division. (1) Before the purchase of real property held in private ownership, the division shall: (a) first submit the proposition to the county legislative body in a regular open public meeting in the county …

23A-6-204. Acquisition of lands by United States for migratory bird refuges. (1)(a) The state consents to acquisition by the United States of the areas of land or water in the state, as the United States may consider necessary, by and with the consent of the county legislative bo…

23A-6-205. Wildlife Land and Water Acquisition Program. (1) As used in this section, "program" means the Wildlife Land and Water Acquisition Program created in Subsection (2). (2) There is created a program known as the "Wildlife Land and Water Acquisition Program" under which th…

23A-6-301. Management plans. (1) The division shall prepare a management plan for each wildlife management area. Upon adoption of a management plan by the director, the division shall manage the lands within the wildlife management area in accordance with the management plan. (2)…

23A-6-302. Preparation of management plans -- Participation by interested persons and local and tribal governments -- Compatibility with local government plans and existing rights. (1) The division shall invite persons who may have an interest in how the land in a wildlife manage…

23A-6-303. Review and adoption of management plans. (1) The division shall submit a draft management plan to the Resource Development Coordinating Committee created in Section 63L-11-401 and the Habitat Council created by the division for their review and recommendations. (2) The…

23A-6-304. Procedure to revise a management plan. (1) A person seeking a revision of a management plan may request the regional advisory council in the region where the land in a wildlife management area is located to consider the proposal to revise the management plan. The regio…

23A-6-305. Change in land use where a management plan is not in effect -- Notification to affected persons -- Compatibility with local government plans. (1) If a management plan has not been adopted by the director for a tract of land owned by the division, the division may not c…

23A-6-401. Target shooting prohibitions. (1) As used in this section: (a) "County sheriff" means the individual holding the office of county sheriff in the portion of a wildlife management area where target shooting will be, or is, prohibited under this section. (b) "Extremely ha…

23A-6-402. Right of access to lands for hunting, trapping, or fishing reserved to public -- Exceptions. (1) Except as provided in Section 23A-6-405 or 65A-2-5, there is reserved to the public the right of access to lands owned by the state, including those lands lying below the o…

23A-6-403. State-owned lands authorized for use as wildlife management areas, fishing waters, and for other recreational activities. (1) The Wildlife Board may use any and all unsurveyed state-owned lands below the 1855 meander line of the Great Salt Lake within the following tow…

23A-6-404. Unlawful uses and activities on division lands. (1) Except as authorized by statute, rule, contractual agreement, special use permit, certificate of registration, or public notice, a person may not on division land: (a) remove, extract, use, consume, or destroy an impr…

23A-6-405. Access to wildlife management areas -- Voluntary contributions -- Volunteer labor. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Class A state road" means the same as that term is described in Section 72-3-102. (b) "Class B road" means the same as that term is described in Section…

23A-7-101. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Cooperative wildlife management unit" means a generally contiguous area of land that is: (a) open for hunting small game, waterfowl, turkey, or big game; and (b) registered in accordance with this chapter and rules of the Wild…

23A-7-102. Rulemaking authority of Wildlife Board. The Wildlife Board may make and enforce rules applicable to cooperative wildlife management units organized for the hunting of small game, waterfowl, turkey, or big game that in the Wildlife Board's judgment are necessary to admi…

23A-7-103. Purposes of wildlife management units. A cooperative wildlife management unit is established to: (1) provide income to landowners; (2) create satisfying hunting opportunities; (3) increase wildlife resources; (4) provide adequate protection to landowners who open their…

23A-7-201. Operation by landowner association. (1) A landowner association shall operate a cooperative wildlife management unit as prescribed by this chapter and the rules of the Wildlife Board. (2) For purposes of this chapter, a landowner association operator may not: (a) be ap…

23A-7-202. Certificate of registration -- Renewal. (1) A landowner association may not establish or operate a cooperative wildlife management unit without first obtaining a certificate of registration from the Wildlife Board. (2) The Wildlife Board may renew annually certificates…

23A-7-203. Season dates -- Boundaries -- Review by councils and Wildlife Board. (1) The Wildlife Board shall establish season dates and boundaries for each cooperative wildlife management unit except as provided in Subsection (2). (2)(a) A season date for a cooperative wildlife m…

23A-7-204. Permits -- Acreage and lands that may be included -- Posting of boundaries. (1) The division shall provide cooperative wildlife management unit authorizations for hunting small game or waterfowl to the cooperative wildlife management unit, free of charge. (2) At least …

23A-7-205. Landowner association to provide comparable hunting opportunities. A landowner association shall provide a holder of an authorization or permit a comparable hunting opportunity in terms of hunting area and number of days.

23A-7-206. Compensation for damage -- Claims. (1) A landowner participating in a cooperative wildlife management unit who incurs damages caused by a hunter on the landowner's land may submit a claim and receive compensation for the claim from money received for cooperative wildli…

23A-7-207. Agents -- Appointment -- Identification -- Refusal of entry by agent. (1) A landowner association may appoint one or more cooperative wildlife management unit agents to protect private property of the cooperative wildlife management unit. (2) A cooperative wildlife man…

23A-7-208. Possession of permits and licenses by hunter -- Restrictions. (1) A person may not hunt in a cooperative wildlife management unit without having in the person's possession: (a) a valid cooperative wildlife management unit authorization or permit or other permit as auth…

23A-7-209. Failure to comply with rules and requirements. A person shall leave private property within a cooperative wildlife management unit immediately, upon request of a landowner, landowner association operator, or cooperative wildlife management unit agent, if that person: (…

23A-7-210. Damage or destruction of property. A person on the land of another person may not intentionally damage, disarrange, or destroy that person's property.

23A-7-211. Violation of chapter -- Class B misdemeanor. Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a class B misdemeanor, unless another penalty is provided elsewhere in the laws of this state.

23A-7-212. Landowner protection under Landowner Liability Act. A landowner who participates in a cooperative wildlife management unit has the full protection afforded under Title 57, Chapter 14, Limitations on Landowner Liability.

23A-8-101. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "72 hours" means a time period that begins with the hour a request for action is made pursuant to Section 23A-8-402 and ends 72 hours later with the exclusion of any hour that occurs on the day of a legal holiday that is on a M…

23A-8-201. Procedure to obtain compensation for livestock damage done by bear, mountain lion, wolf, or eagle. (1)(a)(i) Except as provided by Subsection (1)(a)(ii), if livestock are damaged by a bear, mountain lion, wolf, or an eagle, the owner may receive compensation for the fa…

23A-8-202. Livestock depredation by predators. (1) If a predator harasses, chases, disturbs, harms, attacks, or kills livestock, within 96 hours of the act: (a) in a depredation case, the livestock owner, an immediate family member, or an employee of the livestock owner on a regu…

23A-8-203. Beaver damage -- Authorization to kill or trap. (1) When it is apparent that beaver are doing damage to, or are a menace to, private property, a landowner or tenant may request authorization to kill or trap the beaver. (2) The Wildlife Board may grant authorization des…

23A-8-301. Crop damage by pheasants -- Notice to division -- Damages for destroyed crops -- Limitations -- Appraisal. (1) When pheasants damage cultivated crops on cleared and planted land, the owner of the cultivated crops shall immediately upon discovery of the damage notify th…

23A-8-302. Damage by turkeys. (1)(a) If a turkey materially damages private property, the landowner or lessee of the property may: (i) notify the division of the damage; and (ii) request that the division take action to mitigate the damage. (b) The landowner or lessee of the dama…

23A-8-401. Removal of big game animals doing damage. The director may authorize the removal of big game animals when the big game animals are doing actual damage. The division shall sell or otherwise dispose of a big game animal removed pursuant to this section and money derived …

23A-8-402. Damage to cultivated crops, livestock forage, fences, or irrigation equipment by big game animals -- Notice to division -- Depredation mitigation plan. (1)(a) If on private land big game animals damage cultivated crops, livestock forage, fences, or irrigation equipment…

23A-8-403. Landowner or lessee may kill big game animals. (1)(a) A landowner or lessee may kill big game animals damaging cultivated crops on private land if: (i) it is necessary to protect cultivated crops; (ii) 72 hours has expired since a request for action is given pursuant t…

23A-8-404. Mitigation review panel. (1) A mitigation review panel may be convened to review: (a) a depredation mitigation plan; or (b) division action under Section 23A-8-405. (2) Membership of the mitigation review panel shall consist of: (a) the director or the director's desig…

23A-8-405. Compensation for damage to crops, fences, or irrigation equipment -- Limitations -- Appeals. (1) The division may provide compensation to claimants for damage caused by big game animals to: (a) cultivated crops on private land; (b) fences on private land; or (c) irriga…

23A-9-101. Definitions. Reserved.

23A-9-201. Screens or other devices required -- Failure to install after notice a misdemeanor. (1) A person may not take water from the state streams, lakes, or reservoirs for power purposes, or for waterworks, without first furnishing and maintaining suitable screens or other de…

23A-9-202. Notice of intention to drain or divert waterway. (1) A person owning or controlling an irrigation canal, ditch, reservoir, millrace, or other waterway leading from or into a state waterway containing protected aquatic wildlife shall provide the notice described in Subs…

23A-9-203. Private fish pond. (1) A private fish pond is not required to obtain a certificate of registration from the division to receive fish from an aquaculture facility if: (a) the pond is properly screened as provided in Subsection (3)(c); and (b) the fish species being stoc…

23A-9-204. Operation of aquaculture and fee fishing facilities. A person may engage in the following activities as provided by Title 4, Chapter 37, Aquaculture Act, and rules adopted under that chapter by the Department of Agriculture and Food and Wildlife Board: (1) acquisition,…

23A-9-301. Diversion of water prohibited -- Exception for flood control. (1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), a person may not, without existing rights, divert so much water from a natural stream, lake, pond, or natural lake or pond, the natural storage content of which has …

23A-9-302. Pollution of waters unlawful. (1) A person may not pollute waters: (a) the Wildlife Board considers necessary for wildlife purposes; or (b) containing protected aquatic wildlife and stoneflies (Plecoptera), mayflies (Ephemoptera), dragonflies and damsel flies (Odonata)…