76-8-807 - Posting of signs at war or defense facilities -- Entering posted premises without permission.
76-8-807. Posting of signs at war or defense facilities -- Entering posted premiseswithout permission.
(1) Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation, or stateor any political subdivision thereof engaged in, or preparing to engage in, the manufacture,transportation or storage of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States or ofany of the states for defense or for war or in the prosecution of war by the United States, or themanufacture, transportation, distribution or storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity or water, or anynatural or artificial persons operating any public utility, whose property, except where it fronts onwater or where there are entrances for railway cars, vehicles, persons, or things, is surrounded bya fence or wall, or a fence or wall and buildings, may post around his or its property at each gate,entrance, dock, or railway entrance and every one hundred feet of water front a sign reading "NoEntry Without Permission." The sign shall also designate a point of entrance or place whereapplication may be made for permission to enter, and permission shall not be denied to any loyalcitizen who has a valid right to enter.
(2) Any person willfully entering property enumerated in Subsection (1), withoutpermission of the owner, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
Enacted by Chapter 196, 1973 General Session