Utah Code 23-27-302. Conveyance or equipment detainment or quarantine

Renumbered 7/1/2023)

23-27-302. Conveyance or equipment detainment or quarantine.

(1)

The division, a port-of-entry agent, or a peace officer may detain or quarantine a conveyance or equipment if:

Conveyance: includes a motor vehicle, a vessel, a motorboat, a sailboat, a personal watercraft, a container, a trailer, a live well, or a bilge area. See Utah Code 23-27-102
Division: means the Division of Wildlife Resources. See Utah Code 23-27-102
Dreissena mussel: means a mussel of the genus Dreissena at any life stage, including a zebra mussel, a quagga mussel, and Conrad's false mussel. See Utah Code 23-27-102
Equipment: means an article, tool, implement, or device capable of carrying or containing:

(a)

water; or

(b)

a Dreissena mussel. See Utah Code 23-27-102

(a)

the division, agent, or peace officer:

(i)	finds the conveyance or equipment contains a Dreissena mussel; or

(ii)	reasonably believes that the person transporting the conveyance or equipment is in violation of Section 23-27-201; or

(b)	the person transporting the conveyance or equipment refuses to submit to an inspection authorized by Section 23-27-301.

(2)

The detainment or quarantine authorized by Subsection (1) may continue for:

(a)	up to five days; or

(b)

the period of time necessary to:

(i)	decontaminate the conveyance or equipment; and

(ii)	ensure that a Dreissena mussel is not living on or in the conveyance or equipment.

Enacted by Chapter 284, 2008 General Session