Utah legislation · 2026 General Session
Utah HB591: Nuisance Amendments
Status: Signed into law, March 25, 2026
This bill addresses private and public nuisances.
What the bill says
An act or omitting to perform a duty , which and the act or duty: (i) annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of three or more persons, regardless of the extent to which the annoyance, injury, or endangerment inflicted on the persons is unequal; (ii) offends public decency; (iii) unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for passage, a lake, stream, canal, or basin, or a public park, square, street, or highway; (iv) is a nuisance as described in Section 78B-6-1107 , Nuisance -- Drug houses and drug dealing -- Gambling -- Grou.
From the enrolled text, March 12, 2026:
an act or omitting to perform a duty , which and the act or duty: (i) annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of three or more persons, regardless of the extent to which the annoyance, injury, or endangerment inflicted on the persons is unequal; (ii) offends public decency; (iii) unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for passage, a lake, stream, canal, or basin, or a public park, square, street, or highway; (iv) is a nuisance as described in Section 78B-6-1107 , Nuisance -- Drug houses and drug dealing -- Gambling -- Group criminal activity -- Party house -- Prostitution -- Weapons -- Abatement by eviction private nuisance as defined in Section 78B-6a-101 ; or (v) renders three or more persons insecure in life or the use of property, regardless of the extent to which the effect inflicted on the persons is unequal. (b) "Public nuisance" is presumed to does not include: (i) activities an activity conducted in the normal and ordinary course of agricultural operations, as defined in Section 4-44-102 , an agricultural operation and conducted in accordance with sound agricultural practices, with the presumption that agricultural operations an agricultural operation undertaken in conformity with federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are is operating within sound agricultural …