(1)  A person may not occupy a trailer or semitrailer while it is being drawn by a motor vehicle on a public highway.

Terms Used In Utah Code 41-6a-1706

  • Highway: means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of any nature when any part of it is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for vehicular travel. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
  • Motor vehicle: means a vehicle that is self-propelled and a vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
  • Person: means a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
  • Semitrailer: means a vehicle with or without motive power:
(i) designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle; and
(ii) constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests on or is carried by another vehicle. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
  • Trailer: means a vehicle with or without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and constructed so that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
    • (2)  This section does not apply to a:

    (a)  livestock trailer or livestock semitrailer;

    (b)  trailer or semitrailer being used for participation in a parade; or

    (c)  trailer or semitrailer being used in an agricultural operation.

    Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 2, 2005 General Session

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