76-6-404.5. Unauthorized possession of property. A violation of Subsection (2) is: a third degree felony if: a class A misdemeanor if:Forcible entry and detainer - Ordinarily refers to a summary proceeding for restoring possession of land to one who has been wrongfully deprived of possession. This page explains how to evict a tenant. In Utah, squatter's rights, also known as adverse possession, provide a way for a person to gain legal ownership of the property under certain conditions. 78B6801(8) "Willful exclusion" means preventing the tenant from entering into the premises with intent to deprive the tenant of entry. Utah law allows a landlord to collect three times ("treble") the usual daily rental amount from the day after the expiration of the initial eviction notice. To claim adverse possession, you can't stop into someone's property once every six months. Instead, the law requires that you really possess it. Instead, the law requires that you really possess it.