Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 9 > Chapter 23 - Pete Suazo Utah Athletic Commission Act

• Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• 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.
• Appropriation: means an allocation of money by the governing body for a specific purpose. See Utah Code 10-6-106
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Board: means the Wildlife Board. See Utah Code 23-27-102
• Board: means a local board of health established under Section 26A-1-109. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
• Board: means the Board of State History. See Utah Code 9-8-701
• Boxing: means the sport of attack and defense using the fist, which is covered by an approved boxing glove. See Utah Code 9-23-101
• Budget: means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal period which embodies estimates of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means of financing them. See Utah Code 10-6-106
• Budget officer: means the city auditor in a city of the first and second class, the mayor or some person appointed by the mayor with the approval of the city council in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class, the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government, or the person designated by the charter in a charter city. See Utah Code 10-6-106
• Budget period: means the fiscal period for which a budget is prepared. See Utah Code 10-6-106
• Check: means an order in a specific amount drawn upon a depository by an authorized officer of a city. See Utah Code 10-6-106
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• City general fund: means the general fund used by a city. See Utah Code 10-6-106
• Club fighting: means any contest of unarmed combat, whether admission is charged or not, where:

  (i)	the rules of the contest are not approved by the commission;

  (ii)	a licensed physician, osteopath, or physician assistant approved by the commission is not in attendance;

  (iii)

  a correct HIV negative test regarding each contestant has not been provided to the commission;

  (iv)	the contest is not conducted in accordance with commission rules; or

  (v)

  the contestants are not matched by the weight standards established in accordance with Section 9-23-316. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Commission: means the Pete Suazo Utah Athletic Commission created by this chapter. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Contest: means a live match, performance, or exhibition involving two or more persons engaged in unarmed combat. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Contestant: means an individual who participates in a contest. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Conveyance: includes a motor vehicle, a vessel, a motorboat, a sailboat, a personal watercraft, a container, a trailer, a live well, or a bilge area. See Utah Code 23-27-102 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. County executive: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 County governing body: means one of the types of county government provided for in 2. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 County health department: means a local health department that serves a county and municipalities located within that county. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 County legislative body: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Current period: means the fiscal period in which a budget is prepared and adopted, i. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Department: means any functional unit within a fund that carries on a specific activity, such as a fire or police department within a city general fund. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Department: means the Department of Cultural and Community Engagement. See Utah Code 9-1-102 Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services created in Section 26B-1-201. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Designated commission member: means a member of the commission designated to: (a)  attend and supervise a particular contest; and (b)  act on the behalf of the commission at a contest venue. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Director: means the director appointed by the commission. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Division: means the Division of Wildlife Resources. See Utah Code 23-27-102 Division: means the Division of State History. See Utah Code 9-8-701 Dreissena mussel: means a mussel of the genus Dreissena at any life stage, including a zebra mussel, a quagga mussel, and Conrad's false mussel. See Utah Code 23-27-102 Elimination unarmed combat contest: means a contest where: (a)  a number of contestants participate in a tournament; (b)  the duration is not more than 48 hours; and (c)  the loser of each contest is eliminated from further competition. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Endowment fund: means any history endowment fund created under this part by a qualifying organization. See Utah Code 9-8-701 Enterprise fund: means a fund as defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board that is used by a municipality to report an activity for which a fee is charged to users for goods or services. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Equipment: means an article, tool, implement, or device capable of carrying or containing: (a)  water; or (b)  a Dreissena mussel. See Utah Code 23-27-102 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. Exhibition: means an engagement in which the participants show or display their skills without necessarily striving to win. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Facility: means a structure that is located within or adjacent to a water body. See Utah Code 23-27-102 Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Financial officer: means the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government or the city official as authorized by Section 10-6-158. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Fiscal period: means the annual or biennial period for accounting for fiscal operations in each city. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. Fund: is a s defined by generally accepted accounting principles as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for Utah Cities. See Utah Code 10-6-106 General fund: is a s defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for All Local Governments prepared by the Office of the Utah State Auditor. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Governing body: means a city council, or city commission, as the case may be, but the authority to make any appointment to any position created by this chapter is vested in the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC Interfund loan: means a loan of cash from one fund to another, subject to future repayment. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers. Judge: means an individual qualified by training or experience to: (a)  rate the performance of contestants; (b)  score a contest; and (c)  determine with other judges whether there is a winner of the contest or whether the contestants performed equally, resulting in a draw. See Utah Code 9-23-101 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. Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Licensee: means an individual licensed by the commission to act as a: (a)  contestant; (b)  judge; (c)  manager; (d)  promoter; (e)  referee; (f)  second; or (g)  other official established by the commission by rule. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Local health department: means : (a)  a single county local health department; (b)  a multicounty local health department; (c)  a united local health department; or (d)  a multicounty united local health department. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Manager: means an individual who represents a contestant for the purpose of: (a)  obtaining a contest for a contestant; (b)  negotiating terms and conditions of the contract under which the contestant will engage in a contest; or (c)  arranging for a second for the contestant at a contest. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Mental health authority: means a local mental health authority created in Section 17-43-301. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Multicounty local health department: means a local health department that is formed under Section 26A-1-105 and that serves two or more contiguous counties and municipalities within those counties. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Multicounty united local health department: means a united local health department that is formed under Section 26A-1-105. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104 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 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. Order of constraint: includes a stay-at-home order. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year. Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104 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. Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Promoter: means a person who engages in producing or staging contests and promotions. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Promotion: means a single contest or a combination of contests that: (a)  occur during the same time and at the same location; and (b)  is produced or staged by a promoter. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Public funds: means any money or payment collected or received by an officer or employee of the city acting in an official capacity and includes money or payment to the officer or employee for services or goods provided by the city, or the officer or employee while acting within the scope of employment or duty. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Public health emergency: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-7-301. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Purse: means any money, prize, remuneration, or any other valuable consideration a contestant receives or may receive for participation in a contest. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Qualifying organization: means any Utah nonprofit history organization or local government that qualifies under this chapter to create an endowment fund, receive state money into the endowment fund, match state money deposited into the endowment fund, and expend interest earned on the endowment fund. See Utah Code 9-8-701 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Referee: means an individual qualified by training or experience to act as the official attending a contest at the point of contact between contestants for the purpose of: (a)  enforcing the rules relating to the contest; (b)  stopping the contest in the event the health, safety, and welfare of a contestant or any other person in attendance at the contest is in jeopardy; and (c)  acting as a judge if so designated by the commission. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Round: means one of a number of individual time periods that, taken together, constitute a contest during which contestants are engaged in a form of unarmed combat. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Second: means an individual who attends a contestant at the site of the contest before, during, and after the contest in accordance with contest rules. See Utah Code 9-23-101 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. Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Single county local health department: means a local health department that is created by the governing body of one county to provide services to the county and the municipalities within that county. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Special fund: means any fund other than the city general fund. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Stay-at-home order: means an order of constraint that: (a)  restricts movement of the general population to suppress or mitigate an epidemic or pandemic disease by directing individuals within a defined geographic area to remain in their respective residences; and (b)  may include exceptions for certain essential tasks. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Substance abuse authority: means a local substance abuse authority created in Section 17-43-201. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition. Ultimate fighting: means a live contest, whether or not an admission fee is charged, in which: (a)  contest rules permit contestants to use a combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching, or other combative contact techniques; (b)  contest rules incorporate a formalized system of combative techniques against which a contestant's performance is judged to determine the prevailing contestant; (c)  contest rules divide nonchampionship contests into three equal and specified rounds of no more than five minutes per round with a rest period of one minute between each round; (d)  contest rules divide championship contests into five equal and specified rounds of no more than five minutes per round with a rest period of one minute between each round; and (e)  contest rules prohibit contestants from: (i)  using anything that is not part of the human body, except for boxing gloves, to intentionally inflict serious bodily injury upon an opponent through direct contact or the expulsion of a projectile; (ii)  striking a person who demonstrates an inability to protect himself from the advances of an opponent; (iii)  biting; or (iv)  direct, intentional, and forceful strikes to the eyes, groin area, Adam's apple area of the neck, and the rear area of the head and neck. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Unarmed combat: means boxing or any other form of competition in which a blow is usually struck which may reasonably be expected to inflict bodily injury. See Utah Code 9-23-101 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Unlawful conduct: means organizing, promoting, or participating in a contest which involves contestants that are not licensed under this chapter. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Unprofessional conduct: means : (a)  entering into a contract for a contest in bad faith; (b)  participating in any sham or fake contest; (c)  participating in a contest pursuant to a collusive understanding or agreement in which the contestant competes in or terminates the contest in a manner that is not based upon honest competition or the honest exhibition of the skill of the contestant; (d)  engaging in an act or conduct that is detrimental to a contest, including any foul or unsportsmanlike conduct in connection with a contest; (e)  failing to comply with any limitation, restriction, or condition placed on a license; (f)  striking of a downed opponent by a contestant while the contestant remains on the contestant's feet, unless the designated commission member or director has exempted the contest and each contestant from the prohibition on striking a downed opponent before the start of the contest; (g)  after entering the ring or contest area, penetrating an area within four feet of an opponent by a contestant, manager, or second before the commencement of the contest; or (h)  as further defined by rules made by the commission under Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House. Warrant: means an order drawn upon the city treasurer, in the absence of sufficient money in the city's depository, by an authorized officer of a city for the purpose of paying a specified amount out of the city treasury to the person named or to the bearer as money becomes available. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Water body: means natural or impounded surface water, including a stream, river, spring, lake, reservoir, pond, wetland, tank, and fountain. See Utah Code 23-27-102 Water supply system: includes a pump, canal, ditch, or pipeline. See Utah Code 23-27-102 White-collar contest: means a contest conducted at a training facility where no alcohol is served in which: (a)  for boxing: (i)  neither contestant is or has been a licensed contestant in any state or an amateur registered with USA Boxing, Inc. See Utah Code 9-23-101 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5