31A-35-103.  Exemption from other provisions of this title.
     Bail bond agencies are exempted from:

(1)  Chapter 3, Department Funding, Fees, and Taxes, except Section 31A-3-103;

Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-35-103

  • Captive insurance company: means :
(a) an insurer:
(i) owned by a parent organization; and
(ii) whose purpose is to insure risks of the parent organization and other risks as authorized under:
(A) Chapter 37, Captive Insurance Companies Act; and
(B) Chapter 37a, Special Purpose Financial Captive Insurance Company Act; or
(b) in the case of a group or association, an insurer:
(i) owned by the insureds; and
(ii) whose purpose is to insure risks of:
(A) a member organization;
(B) a group member; or
(C) an affiliate of:
(I) a member organization; or
(II) a group member. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Department: means the Insurance Department. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Health care: means any of the following intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention of a human ailment or impairment:
    (a) a professional service;
    (b) a personal service;
    (c) a facility;
    (d) equipment;
    (e) a device;
    (f) supplies; or
    (g) medicine. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • health insurance: means insurance providing:
    (i) a health care benefit; or
    (ii) payment of an incurred health care expense. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Insurance: includes :
    (i) a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind;
    (ii) a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and
    (iii) a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • License: includes a certificate of authority issued to an insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Mutual: means a mutual insurance corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Rate: means :
    (i) the cost of a given unit of insurance; or
    (ii) for property or casualty insurance, that cost of insurance per exposure unit either expressed as:
    (A) a single number; or
    (B) a pure premium rate, adjusted before the application of individual risk variations based on loss or expense considerations to account for the treatment of:
    (I) expenses;
    (II) profit; and
    (III) individual insurer variation in loss experience. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Small employer: means , in connection with a health benefit plan and with respect to a calendar year and to a plan year, an employer who:
    (i) 
    (A) employed at least one but not more than 50 eligible employees on business days during the preceding calendar year; or
    (B) if the employer did not exist for the entirety of the preceding calendar year, reasonably expects to employ an average of at least one but not more than 50 eligible employees on business days during the current calendar year;
    (ii) employs at least one employee on the first day of the plan year; and
    (iii) for an employer who has common ownership with one or more other employers, is treated as a single employer under 26 U. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • 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
  • Surplus: means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Title insurance: means the insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying of an owner of real or personal property or the holder of liens or encumbrances on that property, or others interested in the property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon, defects in, or the unmarketability of the title to the property, or invalidity or unenforceability of any liens or encumbrances on the property. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • (2)  Chapter 4, Insurers in General, except Sections 31A-4-102, 31A-4-103, 31A-4-104, and 31A-4-107;

    (3)  Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations, except Section 31A-5-103;

    (4)  Chapter 6a, Service Contracts;

    (5)  Chapter 6b, Guaranteed Asset Protection Waiver Act;

    (6)  Chapter 7, Nonprofit Health Service Insurance Corporations;

    (7)  Chapter 8, Health Maintenance Organizations and Limited Health Plans;

    (8)  Chapter 8a, Health Discount Program Consumer Protection Act;

    (9)  Chapter 9, Insurance Fraternals;

    (10)  Chapter 10, Annuities;

    (11)  Chapter 11, Motor Clubs;

    (12)  Chapter 12, State Risk Management Fund;

    (13)  Chapter 14, Foreign Insurers;

    (14)  Chapter 15, Unauthorized Insurers, Surplus Lines, and Risk Retention Groups;

    (15)  Chapter 16, Insurance Holding Companies;

    (16)  Chapter 17, Determination of Financial Condition;

    (17)  Chapter 18, Investments;

    (18)  Chapter 19a, Utah Rate Regulation Act;

    (19)  Chapter 20, Underwriting Restrictions;

    (20)  Chapter 23b, Navigator License Act;

    (21)  Chapter 25, Third Party Administrators;

    (22)  Chapter 26, Insurance Adjusters;

    (23)  Chapter 27, Delinquency Administrative Action Provisions;

    (24)  Chapter 27a, Insurer Receivership Act;

    (25)  Chapter 28, Guaranty Associations;

    (26)  Chapter 30, Individual, Small Employer, and Group Health Insurance Act;

    (27)  Chapter 31, Insurance Fraud Act;

    (28)  Chapter 32a, Medical Care Savings Account Act;

    (29)  Chapter 36, Life Settlements Act;

    (30)  Chapter 37, Captive Insurance Companies Act;

    (31)  Chapter 37a, Special Purpose Financial Captive Insurance Company Act;

    (32)  Chapter 38, Federal Health Care Tax Credit Program Act;

    (33)  Chapter 39, Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact;

    (34)  Chapter 40, Professional Employer Organization Licensing Act;

    (35)  Chapter 41, Title Insurance Recovery, Education, and Research Fund Act; and

    (36)  Chapter 43, Small Employer Stop-Loss Insurance Act.

    Amended by Chapter 64, 2021 General Session