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Utah Code § 65A-1-1 (2026)

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As used in this title:

"Division" means the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands.
"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.
"Fire service provider" means a public or private entity that fulfills the duties of Subsection 11-7-1(1).
"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.
"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.
"Municipality" means a city or town.
"Public trust assets" means those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division.
"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.
"State lands" means all lands administered by the division.
"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.
"Wildland" means an area where:
development is essentially non-existent, except for roads, railroads, powerlines, or similar transportation facilities; and
structures, if any, are widely scattered.
"Wildland fire" means a fire that consumes:
wildland; or
wildland-urban interface.
"Wildland-urban interface" means the zone where structures and other human development meets, or intermingles with, undeveloped wildland.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1993–2002 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Forestry, Fire v. Tooele Co., 2002 UT 8 (Utah 2002).
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State Ex Rel. Forestry, Fire v. Tooele Co., 2002 UT 8 (Utah 2002). · cites it 6× “[6] The most recent version of the relevant section of the Utah Code, which was in effect at the time the County adopted Ordinance 93-9, likewise defines "sovereign lands" as including "those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date…”
State ex rel. Div. of Forestry, Fire & State Lands v. Tooele Cnty., 44 P.3d 680 (Utah 2002). · cites it 4× “6 The most recent version of the relevant section of the Utah Code, which was in effect at the time the County adopted Ordinance 98-9, likewise defines "sovereign lands" as including "those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date…”
Archer v. Bd. of State Lands & Forestry, 907 P.2d 1142 (Utah 1995). · cites it 2× “Effective July 1, 1994, the State Lands Act, Utah Code Ann. §§ 65A-1-1 to -10 (Supp.1995), and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Management Act, Utah Code Ann.”
Nat'l Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Bd. of State Lands, 869 P.2d 909 (Utah 1993). · cites it 2× “Section 65A-1-1(4) of the 1988 Trust Land Management Act defines “public trust assets” as “those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division that are not part of the school or institutional trust lands.”
Nat. Parks & Cons. Ass'n v. Bd. of St. Lands, 869 P.2d 909 (Utah 1993). · cites it 2× “Section 65A-1-1(4) of the 1988 Trust Land Management Act defines "public trust assets" as "those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division that are not part of the school or institutional trust lands.”
— Utah Code § 65A-1-1(4) — 2 cases
Nat'l Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Bd. of State Lands, 869 P.2d 909 (Utah 1993). “Section 65A-1-1(4) of the 1988 Trust Land Management Act defines “public trust assets” as “those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division that are not part of the school or institutional trust lands.”
Nat. Parks & Cons. Ass'n v. Bd. of St. Lands, 869 P.2d 909 (Utah 1993). “Section 65A-1-1(4) of the 1988 Trust Land Management Act defines "public trust assets" as "those lands and resources, including sovereign lands, administered by the division that are not part of the school or institutional trust lands.”
— Utah Code § 65A-1-1(5) — 2 cases
State Ex Rel. Forestry, Fire v. Tooele Co., 2002 UT 8 (Utah 2002). “[6] The most recent version of the relevant section of the Utah Code, which was in effect at the time the County adopted Ordinance 93-9, likewise defines "sovereign lands" as including "those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date…”
State ex rel. Div. of Forestry, Fire & State Lands v. Tooele Cnty., 44 P.3d 680 (Utah 2002). “6 The most recent version of the relevant section of the Utah Code, which was in effect at the time the County adopted Ordinance 98-9, likewise defines "sovereign lands" as including "those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date…”
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