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Utah

This state’s ALPR statute and its named highway-occupancy instrument are both on file. A live card is not a permit in hand.

Statute + DOT instrument
Open the workbenchThe method
Highway system
Primary
State highways under UDOT (Utah Department of Transportation)
Owner
Primary
Utah Department of Transportation
Right-of-way
Not retrieved
not packed. Utah’s statutory ROW definition is not packed in this build. Do not substitute Florida § 334.03(21).
Public records
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Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) (Utah Code Title 63G, Chapter 2). Who may request: Any person (GRAMA); cite the chapter, not a guessed exemption
Open meetings
Primary
Open and Public Meetings Act (Utah Code Title 52, Chapter 4)
ALPR statute
Primary
Utah Code §§ 41-6a-2003 to -2005 — Automatic license plate reader system. Default: a governmental entity may not use an ALPR system (2003(1), 2022 compiled text). Exceptions include LE for public safety / criminal investigations / ensuring compliance with law; parking enforcement; secured-area access; electronic toll; motor-carrier enforcement; transit travel-pattern analysis; higher-ed (anonymized research); inland-port commercial analysis. Captured plate data is a GRAMA protected record, may not be used or shared off those purposes, and — except tolls — may not be preserved more than nine months without a 2005 preservation request, a disclosure order, or a warrant (2004(1)(c), 2022 text). Sale of captured plate data is forbidden. 2005 (2023): 14-day hold pending a court-order application; nongovernmental data to government only by warrant or that procedure; agencies keep a five-year search log. Retention: Nine months for governmental captured plate data unless preservation request, disclosure order, warrant, or toll collection (official § 2004 HTML, 1 Sept 2026). 14-day hold under § 2005 (effective 5 May 2023)..

le.utah.gov § 2003 section page is still a JS shell on 1 Sept 2026 (no statute text in the HTML). § 2004 official HTML on le.utah.gov returned the full nine-month preservation rule this pass. 2003 exception list remains the 2022 compiled reprint (Justia) until the legislature section page renders. 2005 text was retrieved from the legislature site (effective 5 May 2023). UDOT’s 2026 permit page still cites 41-6a-2003–4.

ROW permit
Primary
ALPRS Special Use Permit, then Encroachment Permit for field work. Who may apply: Municipalities. Most law-enforcement agencies cannot contract in their own name; an authorized municipal official must sign. Contractors need a UDOT License Agreement before applying for encroachment..

https://connect.udot.utah.gov/business/permits/license-plate-reader/

Install process in this state

  1. This is not Florida’s General Use Permit and not Minnesota’s OLPA. Two UDOT instruments, in order.
  2. Publish an Automatic License Plate Reader Policy on a public website before UDOT will approve the Special Use application. UDOT says the policy must meet Utah Code 41-6a-2003–4.
  3. An authorized municipal official signs one ALPRS Special Use Permit per municipality. Multiple readers in that jurisdiction ride the same special-use approval.
  4. Give UDOT a current list of ALPRS locations in the law-enforcement jurisdiction.
  5. Any disruption to traffic or presence on highways or shoulders — even temporary — then requires an Encroachment Permit for install or maintenance. Mark the encroachment as ALPRS and upload the Special Use Permit.
  6. A hired contractor must enter a License Agreement with UDOT before applying for encroachment permits.
  7. Do not copy Johnson City, TN dollar figures or FDOT EOM 26-01 into this pack.

Primary

Where to ask

  • Municipal recorder / clerk

    Minutes, resolutions, vote records (GRAMA + Open Meetings)

  • Purchasing / finance

    Contract, amendments, invoices

  • Police records

    Use policy (must already be public for the UDOT permit), audit logs

  • UDOT permitting

    ALPRS Special Use Permit, encroachment permits, contractor license agreement, location list

SupportedEvidence
A municipality that wants ALPR in UDOT right-of-way needs an ALPRS Special Use Permit and, for any work on the highway or shoulder, a separate Encroachment Permit.

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SupportedEvidence
Utah Code § 41-6a-2004 forbids a governmental entity from preserving captured plate data more than nine months except for a preservation request, disclosure order, warrant, or toll collection.

Official le.utah.gov § 2004 HTML retrieved 1 Sept 2026. Post-retrieval amendments are Unproven.

ut-41-6a-2004

UnprovenAssumption
The 2022 compiled exceptions in § 41-6a-2003 are still the complete current list.

UDOT still cites 2003–4 in 2026. That is not a recitation of the current exception list.

ut-41-6a-2003 · ut-udot-alprs

Sources in this pack

What was checked

  1. 2026-09-01

    https://connect.udot.utah.gov/business/permits/license-plate-reader/

    Primary UDOT ALPRS Special Use + Encroachment process packed.

  2. 2026-09-01

    https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter6A/41-6a-S2003.html and S2004.html; re-audit same day

    S2003 HTML is a JS shell (26 KB chrome, no section text). S2004 official HTML returned the full captured-plate-data rule: nine-month cap, GRAMA protected record, sale forbidden, toll exception. 2004 packed as official text. 2003 exceptions still from 2022 compiled reprint (Justia) as secondary. Packed 2005 from the legislature site (primary, effective 5 May 2023).

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