Part 1 General Provisions 58-67-101 – 58-67-102
Part 2 Board 58-67-201
Part 3 Licensing 58-67-301 – 58-67-306
Part 4 License Denial and Discipline 58-67-401 – 58-67-403
Part 5 Unlawful and Unprofessional Conduct – Penalties 58-67-501 – 58-67-503
Part 6 Impaired Physician 58-67-601
Part 7 Immunity Provisions 58-67-701 – 58-67-702
Part 8 Practice Standards 58-67-801 – 58-67-807

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 67 - Utah Medical Practice Act

  • Ablative procedure: means a procedure that is expected to excise, vaporize, disintegrate, or remove living tissue, including the use of carbon dioxide lasers and erbium: YAG lasers. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • ACGME: means the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education of the American Medical Association. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Administrative penalty: means a monetary fine or citation imposed by the division for acts or omissions determined to constitute unprofessional or unlawful conduct, in accordance with a fine schedule established by the division in collaboration with the board, as a result of an adjudicative proceeding conducted in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Associate physician: means an individual licensed under Section 58-67-302. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Attempted sex change: means an attempt or effort to change an individual's body to present that individual as being of a sex or gender that is different from the individual's biological sex at birth. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Biological sex at birth: means an individual's sex, as being male or female, according to distinct reproductive roles as manifested by:
    (a) sex and reproductive organ anatomy;
    (b) chromosomal makeup; and
    (c) endogenous hormone profiles. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Board: means the Physicians Licensing Board created in Section 58-67-201. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Child: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-201. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Child support: includes obligations ordered by a tribunal for the support of a spouse or former spouse with whom the child resides if the spousal support is collected with the child support. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Child support order: means a judgment, decree, or order, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued by a tribunal for child support and related costs and fees, interest and penalties, income withholding, attorney fees, and other relief. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Collaborating physician: means an individual licensed under Section 58-67-302 who enters into a collaborative practice arrangement with an associate physician. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Collaborative practice arrangement: means the arrangement described in Section 58-67-807. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Cosmetic medical device: means tissue altering energy based devices that have the potential for altering living tissue and that are used to perform ablative or nonablative procedures, such as American National Standards Institute (ANSI) designated Class IIIb and Class IV lasers, intense pulsed light, radio frequency devices, and lipolytic devices, and excludes ANSI designated Class IIIa and lower powered devices. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • delinquency: means that child support in an amount at least equal to current child support payable for one month is overdue. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Diagnose: means :
    (a) to examine in any manner another person, parts of a person's body, substances, fluids, or materials excreted, taken, or removed from a person's body, or produced by a person's body, to determine the source, nature, kind, or extent of a disease or other physical or mental condition;
    (b) to attempt to conduct an examination or determination described under Subsection (12)(a);
    (c) to hold oneself out as making or to represent that one is making an examination or determination as described in Subsection (12)(a); or
    (d) to make an examination or determination as described in Subsection (12)(a) upon or from information supplied directly or indirectly by another person, whether or not in the presence of the person making or attempting the diagnosis or examination. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • 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.
  • Immediate income withholding: means income withholding without regard to whether a delinquency has occurred. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Income: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-101. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • LCME: means the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the American Medical Association. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Medical assistant: means an unlicensed individual who may perform tasks as described in Subsection 58-67-305(6). See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Nonablative procedure: means a procedure that is expected or intended to alter living tissue, but is not intended or expected to excise, vaporize, disintegrate, or remove living tissue. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Obligee: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-201. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Obligor: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-201. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Office: means the Office of Recovery Services. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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.
  • Payor: means an employer or any person who is a source of income to an obligor. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Physician: means both physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-67-301, Utah Medical Practice Act, and osteopathic physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-68-301, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Practice of medicine: means :
    (i) to diagnose, treat, correct, administer anesthesia, or prescribe for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, deformity, pain or other condition, physical or mental, real or imaginary, including to perform cosmetic medical procedures, or to attempt to do so, by any means or instrumentality, and by an individual in Utah or outside the state upon or for any human within the state;
    (ii) when a person not licensed as a physician directs a licensee under this chapter to withhold or alter the health care services that the licensee has ordered;
    (iii) to maintain an office or place of business for the purpose of doing any of the acts described in Subsection (19)(a)(i) or (ii) whether or not for compensation; or
    (iv) to use, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human diseases or conditions in any printed material, stationery, letterhead, envelopes, signs, or advertisements, the designation "doctor" "doctor of medicine" "physician" "surgeon" "physician and surgeon" "Dr. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Primary sex characteristic surgical procedure: means any of the following if done for the purpose of effectuating or facilitating an individual's attempted sex change:
    (i) for an individual whose biological sex at birth is male, castration, orchiectomy, penectomy, vaginoplasty, or vulvoplasty;
    (ii) for an individual whose biological sex at birth is female, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, or phalloplasty; or
    (iii) any surgical procedure that is related to or necessary for a procedure described in Subsection (22)(a)(i) or (ii), that would result in the sterilization of an individual who is not sterile. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Secondary sex characteristic surgical procedure: means any of the following if done for the purpose of effectuating or facilitating an individual's attempted sex change:
    (i) for an individual whose biological sex at birth is male, breast augmentation surgery, chest feminization surgery, or facial feminization surgery; or
    (ii) for an individual whose biological sex at birth is female, mastectomy, breast reduction surgery, chest masculinization surgery, or facial masculinization surgery. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • Support order: means the same as child support order. See Utah Code 26B-9-301
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Unlawful conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-67-501. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Unprofessional conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-67-502, and as may be further defined by division rule. See Utah Code 58-67-102
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5