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Utah police will be looking for drunk drivers this weekend. Here’s where.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Daud Eftin, gives a field sobriety test, during the Highway Patrol DUI Blitz on New Year's Eve. The subject was released after passing the test. Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.

  | May 17, 2019, 2:32 p.m.
| Updated: 7:13 p.m.

A DUI checkpoint will be set up Friday night through Saturday morning in Taylorsville, according to a legal notice from the Unified Police Department.

The checkpoint will be set up at 5900 S. Bangerter Highway (southbound) from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., the notice states. “UPD hopes Utah drivers will makes safe, alternative plans to prevent impaired driving."

State law requires DUI checkpoints be published in advance.

Utah has the nation’s lowest drunken driving limit. On Dec. 30, 2018, a new law took hold lowering the state’s blood alcohol content (BAC) standard — used to determine when drivers are considered legally drunk — from 0.08 to 0.05 percent.