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H.B. 107 Enrolled

                 

RECREATIONAL LAND USE IMMUNITY

                 
1999 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: DeMar Bud Bowman

                  AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL CODE; AND LIMITING THE LIABILITY OF
                  MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  ENACTS:
                      78-27-63, Utah Code Annotated 1953
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 78-27-63 is enacted to read:
                      78-27-63. Inherent risks of certain recreational activities -- Claim barred against
                  county or municipality -- No affect on duty or liability of person participating in recreational
                  activity or other person.
                      (1) As used in this section:
                      (a) "Inherent risks" means those dangers, conditions, and potentials for personal injury or
                  property damage that are an integral and natural part of participating in a recreational activity.
                      (b) "Municipality" has the meaning as defined in Section 10-1-104 .
                      (c) "Person" includes an individual, regardless of age, maturity, ability, capability, or
                  experience, and a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or any other form of business
                  enterprise.
                      (d) "Recreational activity" means a rodeo, an equestrian activity, skateboarding, roller
                  skating, hiking, bike riding, or in-line skating on property:
                      (i) owned by:
                      (A) with respect to a claim against a county, the county; and
                      (B) with respect to a claim against a municipality, the municipality; and
                      (ii) intended for the specific use in question.
                      (2) Notwithstanding anything in Sections 78-27-37 , 78-27-38 , 78-27-39 , 78-27-40 ,
                  78-27-41 , 78-27-42 , and 78-27-43 to the contrary, no person may make a claim against or recover


                  from a county or municipality for personal injury or property damage resulting from any of the
                  inherent risks of participating in a recreational activity.
                      (3) Nothing in this section may be construed to relieve a person participating in a recreational
                  activity from an obligation that the person would have in the absence of this section to exercise due
                  care or from the legal consequences of a failure to exercise due care.
                      (4) Nothing in this section may be construed to relieve a person from an obligation that the
                  person would have in the absence of this section to exercise due care or from the legal consequences
                  of a failure to exercise due care.

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