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Terms Used In Utah Code 64-13-27

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the Department of Corrections. See Utah Code 64-13-1
  • 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.
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • 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
(a)  The Criminal Investigations and Technical Services Division of the Department of Public Safety, established in Section 53-10-103, county attorneys’ offices, and state and local law enforcement agencies shall furnish to the department upon request a copy of records of any person arrested in this state.

(b)  The department shall maintain centralized files on all offenders under the jurisdiction of the department and make the files available for review by other criminal justice agencies upon request in cases where offenders are the subject of active investigations.

(2)  All records maintained by programs under contract to the department providing services to public offenders are the property of the department.

Amended by Chapter 263, 1998 General Session