Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 13 > Chapter 24 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Adversely affected party: means a person other than a land use applicant who:

  (a)	owns real property adjoining the property that is the subject of a land use application or land use decision; or

  (b)

  will suffer a damage different in kind than, or an injury distinct from, that of the general community as a result of the land use decision. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. Cable television service: means : (a)  the one-way transmission to subscribers of: (i)  video programming; or (ii)  other programming service; and (b)  subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of: (i)  the video programming; or (ii)  other programming service. See Utah Code 10-18-102 Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Critical infrastructure materials: means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate. See Utah Code 10-9a-901 Critical infrastructure materials operations: means the extraction, excavation, processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials. See Utah Code 10-9a-901 Critical infrastructure materials operator: means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign, affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that: (a)  owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and (b)  has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the critical infrastructure materials operations. See Utah Code 10-9a-901 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Direct costs: means those expenses of a municipality that: (a)  are directly attributable to providing: (i)  a cable television service; or (ii)  a public telecommunications service; and (b)  would be eliminated if the service described in Subsection (4)(a) were not provided by the municipality. See Utah Code 10-18-102 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Full-cost accounting: means the accounting of all costs incurred by a municipality in providing: (i)  a cable television service; or (ii)  a public telecommunications service. See Utah Code 10-18-102 Improper means: includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means. See Utah Code 13-24-2 Improvement completion assurance: means a surety bond, letter of credit, financial institution bond, cash, assignment of rights, lien, or other equivalent security required by a municipality to guaranty the proper completion of landscaping or an infrastructure improvement required as a condition precedent to: (a)  recording a subdivision plat; or (b)  development of a commercial, industrial, mixed use, or multifamily project. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Indirect costs: means any costs: (i)  identified with two or more services or other functions; and (ii)  that are not directly identified with a single service or function. See Utah Code 10-18-102 Infrastructure improvement: means permanent infrastructure that is essential for the public health and safety or that: (a)  is required for human occupation; and (b)  an applicant must install: (i)  in accordance with published installation and inspection specifications for public improvements; and (ii)  whether the improvement is public or private, as a condition of: (A)  recording a subdivision plat; (B)  obtaining a building permit; or (C)  development of a commercial, industrial, mixed use, condominium, or multifamily project. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Misappropriation: means : (a)  acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or (b)  disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who: (i)  used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or (ii)  at the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that his knowledge of the trade secret was: (A)  derived from or through a person who had utilized improper means to acquire it; (B)  acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (C)  derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (iii)  before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake. See Utah Code 13-24-2 Municipality: means : (a)  a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class; (b)  a town, as classified in Section 10-2-301; or (c)  a metro township as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-403 unless the term is used in the context of authorizing, governing, or otherwise regulating the provision of municipal services. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Nonconforming use: means a use of land that: (a)  legally existed before its current land use designation; (b)  has been maintained continuously since the time the land use ordinance governing the land changed; and (c)  because of one or more subsequent land use ordinance changes, does not conform to the regulations that now govern the use of the land. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Person: means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 13-24-2 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Plat: means an instrument subdividing property into lots as depicted on a map or other graphical representation of lands that a licensed professional land surveyor makes and prepares in accordance with Section 10-9a-603 or 57-8-13. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Public telecommunications service: means the two-way transmission of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, lightwaves, or other electromagnetic means offered to the public generally. See Utah Code 10-18-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Subdivision: includes : (i)  the division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of a parcel or lot; and (ii)  except as provided in Subsection (65)(c), divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes. See Utah Code 10-9a-103 Subscribers: means a person that lawfully receives: (a)  cable television services; or (b)  public telecommunications services. See Utah Code 10-18-102 Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident. Trade secret: means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that: (a)  derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (b)  is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy. See Utah Code 13-24-2 Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Vested critical infrastructure materials operations: means critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued by the municipality that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before: (a)  a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials operations; and (b)  January 1, 2019. See Utah Code 10-9a-901 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5