78B-3-302 - Actions to recover fines or penalties -- Against public officers. - Utah Statutes

78B-3-302. Actions to recover fines or penalties -- Against public officers.
(1) Actions to recover fines or penalties shall be tried in the county where the cause, orsome part of the cause, arose.
(2) If a fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed by statute is imposed for an offensecommitted on a lake, river, or other stream of water situated in two or more counties, the actionmay be brought in any county bordering on the lake, river, or stream opposite to the place wherethe offense was committed.
(3) Except as otherwise provided by law, an action against a public officer or the publicofficer's designee shall be tried in the county where the cause arose.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session