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Utah Code § 75E-5-205 — Utah Code / Title 75E / Chapter 75E-5 / § 75E-5-205
§ 75E-5-205. Records -- Requirements for release.
Status: in_force

7/1/2026 (1) Notwithstanding Title 63G, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act, a confidential record, a public restitution record, and a nonpublic restitution record may only be disclosed as provided in this section. (2) A confidential record may be provided to: (a) the claimant who is the subject of the record if the record requested does not contain mental health treatment information; or (b) the person who submitted the record to the office. (3) A confidential record may be used in: (a) a criminal investigation or prosecution when the office suspects that a compensation claim may be fraudulent; or (b) a subrogation action brought by the office in accordance with Section 75E-5-311. (4) (a) The office may disclose a public restitution record for the purpose of carrying out this chapter. (b) The office shall disclose a public restitution record to the Board of Pardons and Parole for a restitution matter. (5) (a) If the office requests restitution in a criminal case and the offender requests a restitution hearing, the office shall provide a nonpublic restitution record to the court, the prosecuting attorney, and counsel for the offender. (b) A person may not: (i) disseminate a nonpublic restitution record obtained under this Subsection (5); or (ii) share a nonpublic restitution record with the offender unless the office and claimant agree, in writing, to the disclosure. (6) Before the office may disclose a restitution record under Subsection (4) or (5), the office shall redact: (a) the name, not including the initials, of a minor or an individual who has been the victim of a sexual assault; (b) the contact information of a claimant or a witness, including a physical address, phone number, or email address; (c) a claimant's date of birth and social security number; and (d) any information that would jeopardize the health or safety of a claimant.
Utah Code § 35A-3-806 — Utah Code / Title 35A / Chapter 35A-3 / § 35A-3-806
§ 35A-3-806. Continuation of refugee services.
Status: in_force

(1) In accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the department may make rules to provide for the administration and coordination of services to refugees beyond the time period refugee assistance is provided or funded by the federal government, including the provisions of: (a) services to address emergency needs; (b) English language training; and (c) services for victims of domestic violence. (2) The director shall administer and coordinate services under this section: (a) with input from the department and any office or advisory committee involved with the provision of refugee services within the department; and (b) in accordance with any state and federal requirements related to the provision of services to refugees.
Utah Code § 31A-22-501 — Utah Code / Title 31A / Chapter 31A-22 / § 31A-22-501
§ 31A-22-501. Eligible groups.
Status: in_force

A group insurance policy offering life insurance or a blanket insurance policy offering life insurance may not be delivered in Utah unless the insured group: (1) falls within at least one of the classifications under Sections 31A-22-501.1 through 31A-22-509; and (2) is formed and maintained in good faith for purposes other than obtaining insurance.
Utah Code § 26B-3-1104 — Utah Code / Title 26B / Chapter 26B-3 / § 26B-3-1104
§ 26B-3-1104. False statements or false representations relating to qualification of health institution or facility prohibited -- Felony.
Status: in_force

(1) A person may not knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly make, induce, or seek to induce, the making of a false statement or false representation of a material fact with respect to the conditions or operation of an institution or facility in order that the institution or facility may qualify, upon initial certification or upon recertification, as a hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or home health agency. (2) A person who violates this section is guilty of a second degree felony.
Utah Code § 53C-1-103 — Utah Code / Title 53C / Chapter 53C-1 / § 53C-1-103
§ 53C-1-103. Definitions.
Status: in_force

7/1/2026As used in this title: (1) "Administration" means the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. (2) "Advocacy office" means the School and Institutional Trust Beneficiaries' Advocacy Office, created in Section 53D-2-201. (3) "Board" or "board of trustees" means the School and Institutional Trust Lands Board of Trustees. (4) "Director" or "director of school and institutional trust lands" means the chief executive officer of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. (5) "Mineral" includes oil, gas, and hydrocarbons. (6) "Nominating committee" means the committee that nominates candidates for positions and vacancies on the board. (7) "Policies" means statements applying to the administration that broadly prescribe a future course of action and guiding principles. (8) "School and institutional trust lands" or "trust lands" means those properties the United States grants in the Utah Enabling Act to the state and placed in trust under Utah Constitution, Article XX, Section 2, and other lands transferred to the trust, which shall be managed for the beneficiaries listed in Subsection 53D-2-201(2).
Utah Code § 63N-3a-207 — Utah Code / Title 63N / Chapter 63N-3a / § 63N-3a-207
§ 63N-3a-207. Payment, use, and administration of regionally significant development zone revenue.
Status: in_force

(1) A creating entity shall designate an agency to: (a) administer the regionally significant development zone; (b) promote the objectives for the regionally significant development zone; and (c) be the custodian of regionally significant development zone revenue, as described in Title 17C, Chapter 6, Regionally Significant Development Zones Act. (2) An agency may share regionally significant development zone revenue with another governmental entity or a private party as described in this section. (3) Before a governmental entity that is not an agency may receive regionally significant development zone revenue from the creating entity, the creating entity or creating entity's agency and the governmental entity shall enter into an agreement governing the use of the revenue, consistent with this chapter and Title 17C, Chapter 6, Regionally Significant Development Zones Act. (4) Before a private party may receive regionally significant development zone revenue, the creating entity or creating entity's agency and the private party shall enter into an agreement governing the use of the revenue, consistent with this chapter and Title 17C, Chapter 6, Regionally Significant Development Zones Act. (5) A creating entity's agency shall use and be responsible for regionally significant development zone revenue as described in Section 17C-6-203. (6) The creating entity of a regionally significant development zone shall be responsible for: (a) tracking revenue received by the creating entity on behalf of the regionally significant development zone; and (b) reporting to the county auditor and tax commission if the creating entity receives the maximum amount of tax increment revenue from any source, as established by the committee under Section 63N-3a-203.
Utah Code § 63B-8-404 — Utah Code / Title 63B / Chapter 63B-8 / § 63B-8-404
§ 63B-8-404. Manner of issuance -- Amounts, interest, and maturity.
Status: in_force

(1) Bonds issued under this chapter may be authorized, sold, and issued at times and in a manner determined by the commission by resolution. (2) Bonds may be issued in one or more series, in amounts, and shall bear dates, interest rate or rates, including a variable rate, and maturity dates as the commission determines by resolution. (3) A bond issued may not mature later than 20 years after the date of final passage of this chapter.
Utah Code § 53F-6-410 — Utah Code / Title 53F / Chapter 53F-6 / § 53F-6-410
§ 53F-6-410. Parental rights -- Optional assessment.
Status: in_force

(1) In accordance with Section 53G-6-803 regarding a parent's right to academic accommodations, nothing in this chapter restricts or affects a parent's interests and role in the care, custody, and control of the parent's child, including the duty and right to nurture and direct the child's upbringing and education. (2) (a) A parent may request that the program manager facilitate one of the following assessments of the parent's scholarship student: (i) a standards assessment described in Section 53E-4-303; (ii) a high school assessment described in Section 53E-4-304; (iii) a college readiness assessment described in Section 53E-4-305; (iv) an assessment of students in grade 3 to measure reading grade level described in Section 53E-4-307; or (v) a nationally norm-referenced assessment. (b) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the entity administering an assessment described in Subsection (2)(a) to a scholarship student in accordance with this section may not report the result of or any other data pertaining to the assessment or scholarship student to a person other than the program manager, the scholarship student, or the scholarship student's parent. (ii) The program manager may not report or communicate the result or data described in Subsection (2)(b)(i) to a person other than the relevant scholarship student and the scholarship student's parent unless the result or data is included in a de-identified compilation of data related to all scholarship students. (c) In any communication from the program manager regarding an assessment described in this Subsection (2), the program manager shall include a disclaimer that no assessment is required. (d) The completion of an optional assessment under this section satisfies the portfolio eligibility qualification described in Subsection 53F-6-402(3)(d). (3) The rights described in this section shall be exercised in conjunction with the procedures for students with special needs as described in Section 53F-6-416.
Utah Code § 53G-6-405 — Utah Code / Title 53G / Chapter 53G-6 / § 53G-6-405
§ 53G-6-405. Funding.
Status: in_force

(1) A student who enrolls in a nonresident district is considered a resident of that district for purposes of state funding. (2) The state board shall adopt rules providing that: (a) except as provided in Subsection (2)(b): (i) the resident district pay the nonresident district, for each of the resident district's students who enroll in the nonresident district, 1/2 of the amount by which the resident district's per student expenditure exceeds the value of the state's contribution; and (ii) if a student is enrolled in a nonresident district for less than a full year, the resident district shall pay a portion of the amount specified in this Subsection (2)(a) based on the percentage of school days the student is enrolled in the nonresident district; and (b) the payment requirements under Subsection (2)(a) do not apply to students enrolled in an online school within the nonresident district. (3) (a) Except as provided in this Subsection (3), the parent of a nonresident student shall arrange for the student's own transportation to and from school. (b) The state board may adopt rules under which a nonresident student may be transported to the student's school of attendance if: (i) transportation relieves overcrowding or other serious problems in the district of residence; (ii) the district of residence lacks sufficient transportation services; (iii) the costs of transportation are reasonable; (iv) there is available space on an approved route within the student's school of attendance; or (v) the Legislature has granted an adequate specific appropriation for that purpose. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the resident district or the receiving district from providing bus transportation on any approved route. (d) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b), the district of residence may not claim any state transportation costs for students enrolled in other school districts.
Utah Code § 78B-5-616 — Utah Code / Title 78B / Chapter 78B-5 / § 78B-5-616
§ 78B-5-616. Business record -- Admissibility -- Weight.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section, "business" includes business, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind. (2) A writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event, shall be admissible as evidence of that act, transaction, occurrence, or event, if made in the regular course of any business, and if it was the regular course of the business to make the memorandum or record at the time of the act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time after. (3) All circumstances, other than those set forth in Subsection (2), of the making of the writing or record, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect its weight, but those circumstances do not affect its admissibility.
Utah Code § 34A-2-503 — Utah Code / Title 34A / Chapter 34A-2 / § 34A-2-503
§ 34A-2-503. Loss of hearing -- Occupational hearing loss due to noise to be compensated.
Status: in_force

(1) Permanent hearing loss caused by exposure to harmful industrial noise or by direct head injury shall be compensated according to the terms and conditions of this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. (2) A claim for compensation for hearing loss for harmful industrial noise may not be paid under this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act, unless it can be demonstrated by a professionally controlled sound test that the employee has been exposed to harmful industrial noise as defined in Section 34A-2-501 while employed by the employer against whom the claim is made.
Utah Code § 53G-7-1307 — Utah Code / Title 53G / Chapter 53G-7 / § 53G-7-1307
§ 53G-7-1307. Teaching Self-Government Skills for Success, Classroom Communication, and Discipline Framework Pilot Program.
Status: in_force

(1) Beginning May 1, 2025, there is created within the Teacher and Student Success Program, a three-year pilot program known as the Teaching Self-Government Skills for Success, Classroom Communication, and Discipline Framework Pilot Program to: (a) train school faculty and students in personal self-government communication and problem solving practices; (b) improve: (i) classroom discipline; (ii) teacher and student mental health; and (iii) classroom management. (2) The state board shall create a training course that an LEA or school shall use if the LEA or school chooses to participate in the pilot program. (3) (a) The state board shall ensure the training course described in Subsection (2) contains the following: (i) effective classroom management; (ii) appropriate approaches to student behavior and discipline consistent with federal and state law; and (iii) effective tools to de-escalate behavior. (b) The state board shall ensure the training described in Subsection (3)(a) is consistent with the following principles: (i) personal self-government; (ii) accepting consequences; (iii) respecting boundaries; (iv) accepting criticism; (v) disagreeing appropriately; and (vi) following instructions. (4) An LEA with a participating school: (a) shall ensure that each teacher in the participating school annually receives the materials of the course described in Subsection (3); and (b) may not provide the training course outside of the LEA or the participating school. (5) In accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the board shall make rules establishing: (a) how an LEA provides to a teacher at a participating school the following stipends upon completion of different modules consistent with Subsection (3): (i) $100 for completion and implementation of one module; (ii) $300 for completion and implementation of two modules; (iii) $300 for completion and implementation of three modules; and (iv) $1,000 for completion of an action plan project that requires a teacher to: (A) create a school or classroom plan that follows the pilot program's training course; and (B) submit research, evidence, and a reflection paper regarding the results of the project; and (b) a reporting requirement for a participating LEA including: (i) metrics of success for the pilot program; and (ii) other information the state board determines. (6) The state board may designate at least one staff position to provide oversight and technical support for the pilot program and the pilot program's implementation. (7) Upon request of the Education Interim Committee, an LEA with schools implementing the pilot program shall report to the Education Interim Committee on the pilot program's progress and outcomes.
Utah Code § 17D-4-303 — Utah Code / Title 17D / Chapter 17D-4 / § 17D-4-303
§ 17D-4-303. Limits on public infrastructure district property tax levy -- Notice requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in Subsections 17D-4-203(2)(e) and 63H-1-202(10), the property tax levy of a public infrastructure district, for all purposes, including payment of debt service on limited tax bonds, may not exceed .015 per dollar of taxable value of taxable property in the district. (2) The limitation described in Subsection (1) does not apply to the levy by the public infrastructure district to pay principal of and interest on a general obligation bond that the public infrastructure district issues. (3) (a) Within 30 days after the day on which the lieutenant governor issues a certificate of incorporation for the public infrastructure district under Section 67-1a-6.5, the board shall record a notice with the recorder of the county in which property within the public infrastructure district is located. (b) The notice described in Subsection (3)(a) shall: (i) contain a description of the boundaries of the public infrastructure district; (ii) state that a copy of the governing document is on file at the office of the creating entity; (iii) state that the public infrastructure district may finance and repay infrastructure and other improvements through the levy of a property tax; and (iv) state the maximum rate that the public infrastructure district may levy. (c) The effective date of the public infrastructure district for purposes of assessing property tax is the day on which the notice is recorded in the office of the recorder of each county in which the public infrastructure district is located, as described in Section 59-2-305.5. (4) If the board fails to record a notice as described in Subsection (3): (a) the public infrastructure district is still created as of the day the lieutenant governor issues a certificate of incorporation for the public infrastructure district; (b) any bonds issued by the public infrastructure district are still valid; and (c) the public infrastructure district may not levy a tax or levy or collect a fee until the board records the notice described in Subsection (3).
Utah Code § 63C-27-202 — Utah Code / Title 63C / Chapter 63C-27 / § 63C-27-202
§ 63C-27-202. Commission duties.
Status: in_force

The commission shall: (1) identify and inform the governor of: (a) cyber threats and vulnerabilities towards Utah's critical infrastructure; (b) cybersecurity assets and resources; and (c) an analysis of: (i) current cyber incident response capabilities; (ii) potential cyber threats; and (iii) areas of significant concern with respect to: (A) vulnerability to cyber attack; or (B) seriousness of consequences in the event of a cyber attack; (2) provide resources with respect to cyber attacks in both the public and private sector, including: (a) best practices; (b) education; and (c) mitigation; (3) promote cyber security awareness; (4) share information; (5) promote best practices to prevent and mitigate cyber attacks; (6) enhance cyber capabilities and response for all Utahns; (7) provide consistent outreach and collaboration with private and public sector organizations; (8) share cyber threat intelligence to operators and overseers of Utah's critical infrastructure; and (9) in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, make rules establishing minimum cybersecurity standards for a local education agency, as that term is defined in Section 53G-3-402, that: (a) align with industry recognized cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including frameworks developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Center for Internet Security, or a successor organization; (b) take into account varying local education agency resources, capacity, and needs; (c) establish phased implementation timelines based on local education agency size, existing cybersecurity infrastructure, and available resources; and (d) as appropriate based on the local education agency's size, risk profile, and available resources, shall address: (i) identity and access management; (ii) asset management and inventory of hardware, software, and data systems; (iii) data protection; (iv) security monitoring and logging capabilities; (v) vulnerability management, including regular security assessments and patching procedures; (vi) incident response and recovery planning; (vii) security awareness training requirements for staff and administrators; (viii) third-party risk management for vendors with access to local education agency systems or data; (ix) network security controls; (x) backup and disaster recovery procedures; and (xi) governance structures for cybersecurity oversight within a local education agency.
Utah Code § 70A-8-206 — Utah Code / Title 70A / Chapter 70A-8 / § 70A-8-206
§ 70A-8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate.
Status: in_force

(1) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect: (a) any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and (b) even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness. (2) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.
Utah Code § 63L-8-510 — Utah Code / Title 63L / Chapter 63L-8 / § 63L-8-510
§ 63L-8-510. Rights-of-way for state departments and agencies.
Status: in_force

The director may issue a land use authorization upon or under public land to a department or agency of the state, subject to such terms and conditions as the director imposes.