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Utah Code § 63L-2-301 — Utah Code / Title 63L / Chapter 63L-2 / § 63L-2-301
§ 63L-2-301. Promoting or lobbying for a federal designation within the state.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Federal designation" means the designation of a: (i) national monument; (ii) national conservation area; (iii) wilderness area or wilderness study area; (iv) area of critical environmental concern; (v) research natural area; or (vi) national recreation area. (b) (i) "Governmental entity" means: (A) a state-funded institution of higher education or public education; (B) a political subdivision of the state; (C) an office, agency, board, bureau, committee, department, advisory board, or commission that the government funds or establishes to carry out the public's business, regardless of whether the office, agency board, bureau, committee, department, advisory board, or commission is composed entirely of public officials or employees; (D) an interlocal entity as defined in Section 11-13-103 or a joint or cooperative undertaking as defined in Section 11-13-103; (E) a governmental nonprofit corporation as defined in Section 11-13a-102; or (F) an association as defined in Section 53G-7-1101. (ii) "Governmental entity" does not mean: (A) the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration created in Section 53C-1-201; (B) the School and Institutional Trust Lands Board of Trustees created in Section 53C-1-202; (C) the Office of the Governor; (D) the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget created in Section 63J-4-201; (E) the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office created in Section 63L-11-201; (F) the Office of Energy Development created in Section 79-6-401; or (G) the Governor's Office of Economic Development created in Section 63N-1a-301. (2) (a) A governmental entity, or a person a governmental entity employs and designates as a representative, may investigate the possibility of a federal designation within the state. (b) A governmental entity that intends to advocate for a federal designation within the state shall: (i) notify the chairs of the following committees before the introduction of federal legislation: (A) the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Interim Committee, if constituted, and the Federalism Commission; or (B) if the notice is given during a General Session, the House and Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Standing Committees; and (ii) upon request of the chairs, meet with the relevant committee to review the proposal. (3) This section does not apply to a political subdivision supporting a federal designation if the federal designation: (a) applies to 5,000 acres or less; and (b) has an economical or historical benefit to the political subdivision.
Utah Code § 17C-5-206 — Utah Code / Title 17C / Chapter 17C-5 / § 17C-5-206
§ 17C-5-206. Requirement to file a copy of the interlocal agreement -- County payment of tax increment.
Status: in_force

(1) An agency that receives project area funds under an interlocal agreement shall, within 30 days after the day on which the interlocal agreement is effective, file a copy of the interlocal agreement with: (a) the State Tax Commission, the State Board of Education, and the state auditor; and (b) the auditor of the county in which the community reinvestment project area is located, if the interlocal agreement authorizes the agency to receive tax increment. (2) A county that collects property tax on property within a community reinvestment project area that is subject to an interlocal agreement shall, in accordance with Section 59-2-1365, pay and distribute to the agency the tax increment that the agency is authorized to receive under the interlocal agreement.
Utah Code § 75E-8-101 — Utah Code / Title 75E / Chapter 75E-8 / § 75E-8-101
§ 75E-8-101. Definitions for chapter.
Status: in_force

7/1/2026As used in this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the Prosecutor Conduct Commission created in Section 75E-8-102. (2) "Complaint" means: (a) a written complaint regarding professional misconduct by a prosecuting attorney; or (b) an allegation based on reliable information received in any form, from any source, that alleges, or from which a reasonable inference can be drawn that a prosecuting attorney has committed professional misconduct. (3) "Employer" means: (a) except as provided in Subsection (3)(b), the attorney general, a district attorney, a county attorney, or a municipal attorney who employs the prosecuting attorney; or (b) the chief executive officer of the political subdivision that employs the prosecuting attorney if the prosecuting attorney is a district or county attorney or a municipal attorney. (4) "Investigation" means an inquiry into a complaint. (5) "Knowingly" means taking an action, or failing to take an action, with the knowledge that the natural or probable consequences are unambiguously prohibited by a legal obligation or professional standard. (6) "Legal obligation" means an obligation imposed by the Utah Constitution, the Constitution of the United States, a statute, a rule of procedure or evidence, or a local rule. (7) "Professional misconduct" means conduct committed in the course of a prosecution of a felony offense, a class A misdemeanor offense, or a class B misdemeanor offense that: (a) purposefully, knowingly, or recklessly violated a clear and unambiguous legal obligation or professional standard for a prosecuting attorney; and (b) impacted, or reasonably could have impacted, the substantive or procedural due process rights of an individual. (8) "Professional standard" means a standard of conduct imposed by the Utah Rules of Professional Conduct. (9) "Prosecuting attorney" means an attorney who brings a criminal prosecution or delinquency proceeding on behalf of this state or a county or municipality of this state. (10) "Purposefully" means taking an action, or failing to take an action, in order to obtain a result that is unambiguously prohibited by a legal obligation or professional standard. (11) "Recklessly" means the conduct is a gross deviation from the standard of conduct for an objectively reasonable prosecuting attorney: (a) after considering the nature and the circumstances of a prosecuting attorney's conduct; and (b) by taking into account whether the prosecuting attorney knew, or should have known: (i) based on the prosecuting attorney's experience, of the legal obligation or professional standard; and (ii) the prosecuting attorney's conduct was substantially likely to violate a legal obligation or professional standard.
Utah Code § 26B-3-1106 — Utah Code / Title 26B / Chapter 26B-3 / § 26B-3-1106
§ 26B-3-1106. False claims for medical benefits prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) A person may not make or present or cause to be made or presented to an employee or officer of the state a claim for a medical benefit: (a) which is wholly or partially false, fictitious, or fraudulent; (b) for services which were not rendered or for items or materials which were not delivered; (c) which misrepresents the type, quality, or quantity of items or services rendered; (d) representing charges at a higher rate than those charged by the provider to the general public; (e) for items or services which the person or the provider knew were not medically necessary in accordance with professionally recognized standards; (f) which has previously been paid; (g) for services also covered by one or more private sources when the person or provider knew of the private sources without disclosing those sources on the claim; or (h) where a provider: (i) unbundles a product, procedure, or group of procedures usually and customarily provided or performed as a single billable product or procedure into artificial components or separate procedures; and (ii) bills for each component of the product, procedure, or group of procedures: (A) as if they had been provided or performed independently and at separate times; and (B) the aggregate billing for the components exceeds the amount otherwise billable for the usual and customary single product or procedure. (2) In addition to the prohibitions in Subsection (1), a person may not: (a) fail to credit the state for payments received from other sources; (b) recover or attempt to recover payment in violation of the provider agreement from: (i) a recipient under a medical benefit program; or (ii) the recipient's family; (c) falsify or alter with intent to deceive, any report or document required by state or federal law, rule, or Medicaid provider agreement; (d) retain any unauthorized payment as a result of acts described by this section; or (e) aid or abet the commission of any act prohibited by this section.
Utah Code § 20A-3a-601 — Utah Code / Title 20A / Chapter 20A-3a / § 20A-3a-601
§ 20A-3a-601. Early voting.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) An individual who is registered to vote may vote at a polling place before the election date in accordance with this section. (b) Except as provided in Subsection 20A-2-207(6), an individual who is not registered to vote may register to vote and vote at a polling place before the election date in accordance with this section if the individual: (i) is otherwise legally entitled to vote the ballot; and (ii) casts a provisional ballot in accordance with Section 20A-2-207. (2) Except as provided in Section 20A-1-308 or Subsection (3), the early voting period: (a) begins on the date that is 14 calendar days before the date of the election; and (b) continues through the Friday before the election if the election date is a Tuesday. (3) (a) An election officer may extend the end of the early voting period to the day before the election date if the election officer provides notice of the extension in accordance with Section 20A-3a-604. (b) For a municipal election, the municipal clerk may reduce the early voting period described in this section if: (i) the municipal clerk conducts early voting on at least four days; (ii) the early voting days are within the period beginning on the date that is 14 calendar days before the date of the election and ending on the day before the election; and (iii) the municipal clerk provides notice of the reduced early voting period in accordance with Section 20A-3a-604. (c) For a county election, the county clerk may reduce the early voting period described in this section if: (i) the county clerk conducts early voting on at least four days; (ii) the early voting days are within the period beginning on the date that is 14 calendar days before the date of the election and ending on the day before the election; and (iii) the county clerk provides notice of the reduced early voting period in accordance with Section 20A-3a-604. (4) Except as provided in Section 20A-1-308, during the early voting period, the election officer: (a) for a local special election, a municipal primary election, and a municipal general election: (i) shall conduct early voting on a minimum of four days during each week of the early voting period; and (ii) shall conduct early voting on the last day of the early voting period; and (b) for all other elections: (i) shall conduct early voting on each weekday; and (ii) may elect to conduct early voting on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday. (5) Except as specifically provided in this Part 6, Early Voting, or Section 20A-1-308, early voting shall be administered in accordance with the requirements of this title.
Utah Code § 32B-9-303 — Utah Code / Title 32B / Chapter 32B-9 / § 32B-9-303
§ 32B-9-303. Director's power to issue single event permit.
Status: in_force

(1) Before a person may sell, offer for sale, or furnish liquor at retail for on-premise consumption at an event, the person shall first obtain a single event permit from the director in accordance with this part. (2) (a) Subject to Subsection (5), the director may issue a single event permit to any of the following that is conducting a convention, civic, or community enterprise, a bona fide: (i) partnership; (ii) corporation; (iii) limited liability company; (iv) religious organization; (v) political organization; (vi) incorporated association; (vii) recognized subordinate lodge, chapter, or other local unit of an entity described in this Subsection (2)(a); (viii) state agency; or (ix) political subdivision of the state. (b) The director may not issue a single event permit to an entity that has not been in existence as a bona fide entity for at least one year before the day on which the entity applies for a single event permit. (3) (a) A single event permit may authorize: (i) the storage, sale, offering for sale, furnishing, and consumption of liquor at an event at which the storage, sale, offering for sale, furnishing, or consumption of liquor is otherwise prohibited by this title under either: (A) a 120 hour single event permit; or (B) a 72 hour single event permit; and (ii) the storage, sale, offer for sale, furnishing, and consumption of beer at the same event for the period that the storage, sale, offer for sale, furnishing, or consumption of liquor is authorized under Subsection (3)(a)(i) for the single event permit. (b) The single event permit shall state in writing whether the single event permit is: (i) a 120 hour single event permit; or (ii) a 72 hour single event permit. (4) The director may not issue more than: (a) four single event permits in any one calendar year to the same person listed in Subsection (2) if one or more of the single event permits is a 120 hour single event permit; or (b) 24 single event permits in any one calendar year to the same person listed in Subsection (2) if each of the single event permits issued to that person is a 72 hour single event permit. (5) Before the director issues or denies the issuance of a single event permit under this section, the director shall comply with Section 32B-9-202.
Utah Code § 70A-3-108 — Utah Code / Title 70A / Chapter 70A-3 / § 70A-3-108
§ 70A-3-108. Payable on demand or at definite time.
Status: in_force

(1) A promise or order is "payable on demand" if it states that it is payable on demand or at sight, or otherwise indicates that it is payable at the will of the holder, or does not state any time of payment. (2) A promise or order is "payable at a definite time" if it is payable on elapse of a definite period of time after sight or acceptance or at a fixed date or dates or at a time or times readily ascertainable at the time the promise or order is issued, subject to rights of prepayment, acceleration, extension at the option of the holder, or extension to a further definite time at the option of the maker or acceptor or automatically upon or after a specified act or event. (3) If an instrument, payable at a fixed date, is also payable upon demand made before the fixed date, the instrument is payable on demand until the fixed date and, if demand for payment is not made before that date, becomes payable at a definite time on the fixed date.
Utah Code § 63M-7-205 — Utah Code / Title 63M / Chapter 63M-7 / § 63M-7-205
§ 63M-7-205. Annual report by the commission.
Status: in_force

7/1/2026 (1) The commission shall annually prepare and publish a report directed to the governor, the Legislature, and the Judicial Council. (2) The report shall describe how the commission fulfilled its statutory purposes and duties during the year.
Utah Code § 23A-11-205 — Utah Code / Title 23A / Chapter 23A-11 / § 23A-11-205
§ 23A-11-205. Requirement to wear hunter orange -- Exceptions -- Nonhunters.
Status: in_force

(1) An individual while hunting a species of big game shall wear, on the exterior so the item can be seen, one or more of the following items that are primarily hunter orange material, except as provided in Subsection (2): (a) a hat; (b) a shirt; (c) a jacket; (d) a coat; (e) a vest; or (f) a sweater. (2) An individual is not required to wear a hunter orange item described in Subsection (1): (a) during the following types of hunts, unless a centerfire rifle hunt is in progress in the same area: (i) archery; (ii) muzzle-loader; (iii) mountain goat; (iv) bighorn sheep; (v) bison; or (vi) moose; or (b) as provided by a rule of the Wildlife Board made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act. (3) (a) The director may regulate the wearing of hunter orange by an individual who is: (i) not hunting, such as a hiker, camper, or other recreational user; and (ii) accessing a wildlife management area while a centerfire rifle hunt for big game is in progress on the wildlife management area. (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(a), the director may not regulate the wearing of hunter orange under this Subsection (3) by a landowner owning land inside a wildlife management area or by the landowner's immediate family members. (4) An individual engaged in agriculture activities is not subject to the requirements to wear hunter orange under this section.
Utah Code § 78B-3-208 — Utah Code / Title 78B / Chapter 78B-3 / § 78B-3-208
§ 78B-3-208. Default judgments.
Status: in_force

(1) A default judgement may not be entered until the expiration of at least 30 days after service. (2) A default judgment entered on service may be set aside only on a showing which would be timely and sufficient to set aside a default judgment entered on personal service within this state.
Utah Code § 70A-8-510 — Utah Code / Title 70A / Chapter 70A-8 / § 70A-8-510
§ 70A-8-510. Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
Status: in_force

(1) In a case not covered by the priority rules in Chapter 9a, Uniform Commercial Code - Secured Transactions, or the rules stated in Subsection (3), an action based on an adverse claim to a financial asset or security entitlement, whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust, equitable lien, or other theory, may not be asserted against a person who purchases a security entitlement, or an interest therein, from an entitlement holder if the purchaser gives value, does not have notice of the adverse claim, and obtains control. (2) If an adverse claim could not have been asserted against an entitlement holder under Section 70A-8-502, the adverse claim cannot be asserted against a person who purchases a security entitlement, or an interest therein, from the entitlement holder. (3) In a case not covered by the priority rules in Chapter 9a, Uniform Commercial Code - Secured Transactions, a purchaser for value of a security entitlement, or an interest therein, who obtains control has priority over a purchaser of a security entitlement, or an interest therein, who does not obtain control. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (4), purchasers who have control rank according to priority in time of: (a) the purchaser's becoming the person for whom the securities account, in which the security entitlement is carried, is maintained, if the purchaser obtained control under Subsection 70A-8-105(4)(a); (b) the securities intermediary's agreement to comply with the purchaser's entitlement orders with respect to security entitlements carried or to be carried in the securities account in which the security entitlement is carried, if the purchaser obtained control under Subsection 70A-8-105(4)(b); or (c) if the purchaser obtained control through another person under Subsection 70A-8-105(4)(c), the time on which priority would be based under this subsection if the other person were the secured party. (4) A securities intermediary as purchaser has priority over a conflicting purchaser who has control unless otherwise agreed by the securities intermediary.
Utah Code § 70A-2-105 — Utah Code / Title 70A / Chapter 70A-2 / § 70A-2-105
§ 70A-2-105. Definitions -- Transferability -- "Goods" -- "Future" goods -- "Lot" -- "Commercial unit."
Status: in_force

(1) "Goods" means all things (including specially manufactured goods) which are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money in which the price is to be paid, investment securities (Chapter 8, Uniform Commercial Code - Investment Securities) and things in action. "Goods" also includes the unborn young of animals and growing crops and other identified things attached to realty (Section 70A-2-107). (2) Goods must be both existing and identified before any interest in them can pass. Goods which are not both existing and identified are "future" goods. A purported present sale of future goods or of any interest therein operates as a contract to sell. (3) There may be a sale of a part interest in existing identified goods. (4) An undivided share in an identified bulk of fungible goods is sufficiently identified to be sold although the quantity of the bulk is not determined. Any agreed proportion of such a bulk or any quantity thereof agreed upon by number, weight or other measure may to the extent of the seller's interest in the bulk be sold to the buyer who then becomes an owner in common. (5) "Lot" means a parcel or a single article which is the subject matter of a separate sale or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the contract. (6) "Commercial unit" means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of sale and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. A commercial unit may be a single article (as a machine) or a set of articles (as a suite of furniture or an assortment of sizes) or a quantity (as a bale, gross, or carload) or any other unit treated in use or in the relevant market as a single whole.
Utah Code § 20A-3a-104 — Utah Code / Title 20A / Chapter 20A-3a / § 20A-3a-104
§ 20A-3a-104. Voting by secret ballot.
Status: in_force

All voting at each regular and municipal general election, at each statewide or local special election, at each primary election, at each special district election, and at each bond election shall be by secret ballot.
Utah Code § 78B-4-1001 — Utah Code / Title 78B / Chapter 78B-4 / § 78B-4-1001
§ 78B-4-1001. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this part, "governmental entity" means the same as that term is defined in Section 63G-7-102.
Utah Code § 78A-2-203.5 — Utah Code / Title 78A / Chapter 78A-2 / § 78A-2-203.5
§ 78A-2-203.5. Submission of court rules or proposed court rules.
Status: in_force

When the Supreme Court or Judicial Council submits a court rule or proposal for court rule for public comment, the Supreme Court or Judicial Council shall submit the court rule or proposal for court rule to publication houses that publish court rules, proposals to court rules, case law, or other relevant information for individuals engaged in the legal profession.
Utah Code § 31A-22-609 — Utah Code / Title 31A / Chapter 31A-22 / § 31A-22-609
§ 31A-22-609. Incontestability for accident and health insurance.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) A statement made by an applicant relating to the person's insurability, except fraudulent misrepresentation, may not be a basis for avoidance of a policy, coverage, or denial of a claim for loss incurred or disability commencing after the coverage has been in effect for two years. (b) The insurer has the burden of proving fraud by clear and convincing evidence. (2) Except as provided under Section 31A-22-605.1, a claim for loss incurred or disability commencing after two years from the date of issue of the policy may not be reduced or denied on the ground that a disease or physical condition existed prior to the effective date of coverage, unless the condition was excluded from coverage by name or specific description in a provision that was in effect on the date of loss. (3) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(a), a specified disease policy may not include wording that provides a defense based upon a disease or physical condition that existed prior to the effective date of coverage except as allowed under Subsection 31A-22-605.1(2).