23-27-302 - Conveyance or equipment detainment or quarantine.
23-27-302. Conveyance or equipment detainment or quarantine.
(1) The division, a port-of-entry agent, or a peace officer may detain or quarantine aconveyance or equipment if:
(a) the division, agent, or peace officer:
(i) finds the conveyance or equipment contains a Dreissena mussel; or
(ii) reasonably believes that the person transporting the conveyance or equipment is inviolation of Section 23-27-201; or
(b) the person transporting the conveyance or equipment refuses to submit to aninspection authorized by Section 23-27-301.
(2) The detainment or quarantine authorized by Subsection (1) may continue for:
(a) up to five days; or
(b) the period of time necessary to:
(i) decontaminate the conveyance or equipment; and
(ii) ensure that a Dreissena mussel is not living on or in the conveyance or equipment.
Enacted by Chapter 284, 2008 General Session