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Legislative action that proposed this amendment: HJR15 2020 General Session
Disposition: This amendment took effect following voter ratification. You may read the resulting 2021 Utah Constitution here.
Enacts Article I section 30.
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(1) The individual right of the people to hunt and to fish is a valued part of the State's heritage and shall be forever preserved for the public good.
(2) The right under Subsection (1) includes the right to use traditional methods to hunt and to fish, subject only to statute, and rules and regulations adopted as provided by statute, to:
(a) promote wildlife conservation and management;
(b) provide reasonable regulation of hunting and fishing activities; and
(c) preserve the future of hunting and fishing.
(3) Public hunting and fishing shall be the preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.
(4) This section does not affect:
(a) the law relating to trespass or property rights;
(b) the State's sovereign authority over the State's natural resources; or
(c) the State's obligation to manage lands granted to the State under the Enabling Act.
