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Utah Code § 11-61-104: Time, place, and manner restrictions -- Generally applicable restrictions by ordinance.

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  1. Title 11 Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units
  2. Chapter 11-61 Expressive Activity Regulation by Local Government Act

(1) If a political subdivision imposes a generally applicable or individually applicable time, place, and manner restriction on expressive activity on public grounds, the political subdivision shall ensure that the restriction:

(a) is narrowly tailored to serve an important governmental interest, including public access to the public building, public safety, and protection of public property;

(b) is unrelated to the suppression of a particular message or the content of the expressive activity that the restriction addresses; and

(c) leaves open reasonable alternative means for the expressive activity.

(2) A political subdivision may not impose a generally applicable time, place, and manner restriction on expressive activity on public grounds unless the political subdivision:

(a) imposes the restriction by ordinance; or

(b)

(i) adopts an ordinance to guide the adoption, by policy or practice, of restrictions on expressive activity on public grounds; and

(ii) adopts, by policy or practice, the restriction in accordance with the ordinance described in Subsection (2)(b)(i) and with the constitutional safeguards described in Subsection (1).

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