72-7-403 - Towing requirements and limitations on towing. - Utah Statutes

72-7-403. Towing requirements and limitations on towing.
(1) (a) The draw-bar or other connection between any two vehicles, one of which istowing or drawing the other on a highway, may not exceed 15 feet in length from one vehicle tothe other except in the case of a connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe,machinery, or structural material that cannot be dismembered when transported upon a poletrailer as defined in Section 41-6a-102.
(b) When the connection between the two vehicles is a chain, rope, or cable, a red flag orother signal or cloth not less than 12 inches both in length and width shall be displayed on or nearthe midpoint of the connection.
(2) A person may not operate a combination of vehicles when any trailer, semitrailer, orother vehicle being towed:
(a) whips or swerves from side to side dangerously or unreasonably; or
(b) fails to follow substantially in the path of the towing vehicle.
(3) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

Amended by Chapter 2, 2005 General Session