Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 20A > Chapter 11 > Part 12 - Political Activities of Public Entities Act

• Address: means the number and street where an individual resides or where a reporting entity has its principal office. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
• Advisory group: means the institution of higher education privacy advisory group established by the state privacy officer under Section 53B-28-502. See Utah Code 53B-28-501
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alleged perpetrator: means an individual whom a victim alleges committed an act of sexual violence against the victim. See Utah Code 53B-28-301
• 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.
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Ballot proposition: means constitutional amendments, initiatives, referenda, judicial retention questions, opinion questions, bond approvals, or other questions submitted to the voters for their approval or rejection. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202
• Board: means the Utah Board of Higher Education described in Section 53B-1-402. See Utah Code 53B-1-101.5
• Candidate: means any person who:

  (a)	files a declaration of candidacy for a public office; or

  (b)

  receives contributions, makes expenditures, or gives consent for any other person to receive contributions or make expenditures to bring about the person's nomination or election to a public office. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses. Certified advocate: means an individual who: (a)  is employed by or volunteers at a qualified institutional victim services provider; (b)  has completed at least 40 hours of training in counseling and assisting victims of sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking; and (c)  acts under the supervision of the director or director's designee of a qualified institutional victim services provider. See Utah Code 53B-28-201 Code of conduct: means an institution's student code of conduct, student code of ethics, honor code, or other policy under which the institution may sanction a student. See Utah Code 53B-28-301 Commercial interlocal cooperation agency: means an interlocal cooperation agency that receives its revenues from conduct of its commercial operations. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Commissioner: means the commissioner of higher education appointed in accordance with Section 53B-1-408. See Utah Code 53B-1-101.5 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Confidential communication: includes a record that is created or maintained as a result of the communication described in Subsection (2)(a). See Utah Code 53B-28-201 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Contribution: means any of the following when done for political purposes: (i)  a gift, subscription, donation, loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value given to the filing entity; (ii)  an express, legally enforceable contract, promise, or agreement to make a gift, subscription, donation, unpaid or partially unpaid loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value to the filing entity; (iii)  any transfer of funds from another reporting entity to the filing entity; (iv)  compensation paid by any person or reporting entity other than the filing entity for personal services provided without charge to the filing entity; (v)  remuneration from: (A)  any organization or its directly affiliated organization that has a registered lobbyist; or (B)  any agency or subdivision of the state, including school districts; (vi)  a loan made by a candidate deposited to the candidate's own campaign; and (vii)  in-kind contributions. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Convention: means the political party convention at which party officers and delegates are selected. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Covered allegation: means an allegation made to an institution that an individual committed an act of sexual violence. See Utah Code 53B-28-301 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Data breach: means an unauthorized release of or unauthorized access to personally identifiable student data that an education entity maintains. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Data governance plan: means an education entity's comprehensive plan for managing education data that: (a)  incorporates reasonable data industry best practices to maintain and protect student data and other education-related data; (b)  describes the role, responsibility, and authority of the board or an institution privacy officer; (c)  provides for necessary technical assistance, training, support, and auditing; (d)  describes the process for sharing student data between the education entity and another person; (e)  describes the education entity's data expungement process, including how to respond to requests for expungement; (f)  describes the data breach response process; and (g)  is published annually and available on the institution's website or the Utah System of Higher Education's website. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Education entity: means the Utah Board of Higher Education or an institution. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Elected official: means : (a)  a person elected to an office under Section 20A-1-303 or 6; (b)  a person who is considered to be elected to a municipal office in accordance with Subsection 20A-1-206(1)(c)(ii); or (c)  a person who is considered to be elected to a special district office in accordance with Subsection 20A-1-206(3)(b)(ii). See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Election: means each: (a)  regular general election; (b)  regular primary election; and (c)  special election at which candidates are eliminated and selected. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Expenditure: means : (a)  a purchase, payment, donation, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, gift of money, or anything of value; (b)  an express, legally enforceable contract, promise, or agreement to make any purchase, payment, donation, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, gift of money, or anything of value; (c)  a transfer of funds between a public entity and a candidate's personal campaign committee; (d)  a transfer of funds between a public entity and a political issues committee; or (e)  goods or services provided to or for the benefit of a candidate, a candidate's personal campaign committee, or a political issues committee for political purposes at less than fair market value. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller. Filing entity: means the same as that term is defined in Section 20A-11-101. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Governmental interlocal cooperation agency: means an interlocal cooperation agency that receives some or all of its revenues from: (a)  government appropriations; (b)  taxes; (c)  government fees imposed for regulatory or revenue raising purposes; or (d)  interest earned on public funds or other returns on investment of public funds. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Higher education privacy officer: means a privacy officer that the board designates under Section 53B-28-503. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Influence: means to campaign or advocate for or against a ballot proposition. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Institution: means an institution of higher education described in Section 53B-1-102. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 institution: means an institution of higher education listed in Section 53B-1-102. See Utah Code 53B-27-102 institution: means a public or private postsecondary institution that is located in Utah, including an institution of higher education listed in Section 53B-1-102. See Utah Code 53B-28-102 Institutional advocacy service: means a safety planning, counseling, psychological, support, advocacy, medical, or legal service that: (a)  addresses issues involving: (i)  sexual harassment; (ii)  sexual assault; (iii)  rape; (iv)  domestic violence; (v)  dating violence; or (vi)  stalking; and (b)  is provided by a qualified institutional victim services provider. See Utah Code 53B-28-201 Interlocal cooperation agency: means an entity created by interlocal agreement under the authority of Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 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 Law enforcement agency: means an off-campus law enforcement agency of the unit of local government with jurisdiction to respond to a covered allegation. See Utah Code 53B-28-301 Loan: means any of the following provided by a person that benefits a filing entity if the person expects repayment or reimbursement: (a)  an expenditure made using any form of payment; (b)  money or funds received by the filing entity; (c)  the provision of a good or service with an agreement or understanding that payment or reimbursement will be delayed; or (d)  use of any line of credit. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Local election: means a regular county election, a regular municipal election, a municipal primary election, a local special election, a special district election, and a bond election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Minor: means a person younger than 18 years old. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 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. Person: means both natural and legal persons, including individuals, business organizations, personal campaign committees, party committees, political action committees, political issues committees, and labor organizations, as defined in Section 20A-11-1501. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal campaign committee: means the committee appointed by a candidate to act for the candidate as provided in this chapter. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Personally identifiable student data: includes : (i)  a student's first and last name; (ii)  the first and last name of a student's family member; (iii)  a student's or a student's family's home or physical address; (iv)  a student's email address or other online contact information; (v)  a student's telephone number; (vi)  a student's social security number; (vii)  a student's biometric identifier; (viii)  a student's health or disability data; (ix)  a student's education entity student identification number; (x)  a student's social media user name and password or alias; (xi)  if associated with personally identifiable student data, the student's persistent identifier, including: (A)  a customer number held in a cookie; or (B)  a processor serial number; (xii)  a combination of a student's last name or photograph with other information that together permits a person to contact the student online; (xiii)  information about a student or a student's family that a person collects online and combines with other personally identifiable student data to identify the student; and (xiv)  information that, alone or in combination, is linked or linkable to a specific student that would allow a reasonable person in the school community, who does not have personal knowledge of the relevant circumstances, to identify the student with reasonable certainty. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Political issues committee: means an entity, or any group of individuals or entities within or outside this state, a major purpose of which is to: (i)  solicit or receive donations from any other person, group, or entity to assist in placing a ballot proposition on the ballot, assist in keeping a ballot proposition off the ballot, or to advocate that a voter refrain from voting or vote for or vote against any ballot proposition; (ii)  make expenditures to expressly advocate for any person to sign or refuse to sign a ballot proposition or incorporation petition or refrain from voting, vote for, or vote against any proposed ballot proposition or an incorporation in an incorporation election; or (iii)  make expenditures to assist in qualifying or placing a ballot proposition on the ballot or to assist in keeping a ballot proposition off the ballot. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Political purposes: means an act done with the intent or in a way to influence or intend to influence, directly or indirectly, any person to refrain from voting or to vote for or against any: (a)  candidate for public office at any caucus, political convention, primary, or election; or (b)  judge standing for retention at any election. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 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 Proposed initiative: means an initiative proposed in an application filed under Section 20A-7-202 or 20A-7-502. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Proposed referendum: means a referendum proposed in an application filed under Section 20A-7-302 or 20A-7-602. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Public entity: includes the state, each state agency, each county, municipality, school district, special district, governmental interlocal cooperation agency, and each administrative subunit of each of them. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Public funds: means any money received by a public entity from appropriations, taxes, fees, interest, or other returns on investment. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Public office: means the office of governor, lieutenant governor, state auditor, state treasurer, attorney general, state school board member, state senator, state representative, speaker of the House of Representatives, president of the Senate, and the leader, whip, and assistant whip of any party caucus in either house of the Legislature. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Public official: includes the person or group that: (i)  has supervisory authority over the personnel and affairs of a public entity; and (ii)  approves the expenditure of funds for the public entity. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Qualified institutional victim services provider: means an organization that: (i)  is affiliated with an institution; (ii)  employs or provides volunteer opportunities for certified advocates; (iii)  provides an institutional advocacy service to victims or families of victims; and (iv)  is designated by the affiliated institution as a qualified institutional victim services provider. See Utah Code 53B-28-201 real property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Record: means a book, letter, document, paper, map, plan, photograph, film, card, tape, recording, electronic data, or other documentary material regardless of physical form or characteristics. See Utah Code 53B-28-201 Registered lobbyist: means a person licensed under Title 36, Chapter 11, Lobbyist Disclosure and Regulation Act. See Utah Code 20A-11-101 Reporting entity: means the same as that term is defined in Section 20A-11-101. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 Sexual violence: means : (a)  sexual abuse as described in 18 U. See Utah Code 53B-28-301 Special district: includes a special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 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 State agency: includes the legislative branch, the Utah Board of Higher Education, each institution of higher education board of trustees, and each higher education institution. See Utah Code 20A-11-1202 State privacy officer: means the state privacy officer described in Section 67-3-13. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Student: means an individual enrolled in an institution. See Utah Code 53B-28-301 Student: means an individual enrolled in an institution. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Student data: means information about a student at the individual student level. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Third-party contractor: means a person who: (a)  is not an institution or an employee of an institution; and (b)  pursuant to a contract with an education entity, collects or receives student data in order to provide a product or service, as described in the contract, if the product or service is not related to school photography, yearbooks, graduation announcements, or a similar product or service. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Victim: means an individual who seeks an institutional advocacy service. See Utah Code 53B-28-201 Victim: means a student who alleges that the student was a victim of sexual violence. See Utah Code 53B-28-301 Voter: means an individual who: (a)  meets the requirements for voting in an election; (b)  meets the requirements of election registration; (c)  is registered to vote; and (d)  is listed in the official register book. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5