Effective 5/5/2021 72-7-301. Liability for damage to highway, highway equipment, or highway sign — Liability for damage to highway from illegal operation of oversize or overweight vehicles — Recovery. (1) A person who by any means willfully or negligently injures or damages any highway, highway equipment, or highway sign is liable for the damage. (2) […]
72-7-302. Damage to signs, warnings, or barriers — Penalty. (1) A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor who willfully and unlawfully removes, defaces, or interferes with any highway sign, signal, notice, warning, or barrier. (2) A person who commits an offense under Subsection (1) that results in an injury to a person or […]
72-7-303. Escaping water and other obstructions — Injuring or obstructing highway — Penalty for violations. (1) A person may not willfully or carelessly: (a) obstruct or damage any public highway by causing or permitting flow or seepage of water; (b) permit water under the person’s control to escape in any manner that results in damage […]
72-7-304. Injury to trees on highways — Penalty for violations. (1) A person may not dig up, cut down, or otherwise willfully damage or destroy any shade, ornamental, or other tree, planted and standing on any public highway in conformity to law. (2) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class B […]
72-7-305. Driving animals over highways — Liability for damages. (1) Except for a livestock highway, a person who drives a herd of domestic animals over a public highway is liable for any damage done by the animals in destroying the banks or rolling rocks into or upon the highway. (2) The damage may be recovered […]
72-7-306. Limited highways — Penalty for driving animals over. (1) A highway authority may declare a public highway that is laid out through improved lands that are not protected by fences along the lines of the highway passing through it, to be limited highways. A notice to that effect shall be posted at each end […]
