Alva Review-Courier -

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Starting Tuesday, restaurants across Utah can take down state-mandated signs saying they aren't bars. Parents can be protected if they let their children roam freely. And farmers can begin to eye the prospect of legally growing marijuana for a narrow range of purposes.

Most of the more than 500 laws passed by the state's Legislature this year go into effect 60 days after the end of the short legislative session.

The laws are wide-ranging. Some add new protections for runaway teens and people with dangerous partners. Another transforms the state's transit agency.

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