Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 26B > Chapter 7 > Part 3 - Treatment, Isolation, and Quarantine Procedures for Communicable Diseases

• 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.
• Bioterrorism: means :

  (a)

  the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product to cause death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism in order to influence, intimidate, or coerce the conduct of government or a civilian population; and

  (b)

  includes anthrax, botulism, small pox, plague, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Control: means to add, remove, or change the placement of a drug, substance, or immediate precursor under Section 58-37-3. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Controlled substance: means a drug or substance: (A)  included in Schedules I, II, III, IV, or V of Section 58-37-4; (B)  included in Schedules I, II, III, IV, or V of the federal Controlled Substances Act, Title II, P. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Controlled substance precursor: includes a chemical reagent and means any of the following: (a)  Phenyl-2-propanone; (b)  Methylamine; (c)  Ethylamine; (d)  D-lysergic acid; (e)  Ergotamine and its salts; (f)  Diethyl malonate; (g)  Malonic acid; (h)  Ethyl malonate; (i)  Barbituric acid; (j)  Piperidine and its salts; (k)  N-acetylanthranilic acid and its salts; (l)  Pyrrolidine; (m)  Phenylacetic acid and its salts; (n)  Anthranilic acid and its salts; (o)  Morpholine; (p)  Ephedrine; (q)  Pseudoephedrine; (r)  Norpseudoephedrine; (s)  Phenylpropanolamine; (t)  Benzyl cyanide; (u)  Ergonovine and its salts; (v)  3,4-Methylenedioxyphenyl-2-propanone; (w)  propionic anhydride; (x)  Insosafrole; (y)  Safrole; (z)  Piperonal; (aa)  N-Methylephedrine; (bb)  N-ethylephedrine; (cc)  N-methylpseudoephedrine; (dd)  N-ethylpseudoephedrine; (ee)  Hydriotic acid; (ff)  gamma butyrolactone (GBL), including butyrolactone, 1,2 butanolide, 2-oxanolone, tetrahydro-2-furanone, dihydro-2(3H)-furanone, and tetramethylene glycol, but not including gamma aminobutric acid (GABA); (gg)  1,4 butanediol; (hh)  any salt, isomer, or salt of an isomer of the chemicals listed in Subsections (1)(a) through (gg); (ii)  Crystal iodine; (jj)  Iodine at concentrations greater than 1. See Utah Code 58-37c-3 County legislative body: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side. Department: means the Department of Commerce. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Dispense: means the delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacist to an ultimate user pursuant to the lawful order or prescription of a practitioner, and includes distributing to, leaving with, giving away, or disposing of that substance as well as the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for delivery. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Distribute: means the actual, constructive, or attempted sale, transfer, delivery, or dispensing to another of an imitation controlled substance. See Utah Code 58-37b-2 Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Drug: means : (A)  a substance recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, Official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or Official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them, intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals; (B)  a substance that is required by any applicable federal or state law or rule to be dispensed by prescription only or is restricted to administration by practitioners only; (C)  a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals; and (D)  substances intended for use as a component of any substance specified in Subsections (1)(r)(i)(A), (B), and (C). See Utah Code 58-37-2 Drug paraphernalia: includes : (a)  kits used, or intended for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, or harvesting any species of plant which is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived; (b)  kits used, or intended for use, in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing a controlled substance; (c)  isomerization devices used, or intended for use, to increase the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance; (d)  except as provided in Subsection (3), testing equipment used, or intended for use, to identify or to analyze the strength, effectiveness, or purity of a controlled substance; (e)  scales and balances used, or intended for use, in weighing or measuring a controlled substance; (f)  diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannited, dextrose and lactose, used, or intended for use to cut a controlled substance; (g)  separation gins and sifters used, or intended for use to remove twigs, seeds, or other impurities from marihuana; (h)  blenders, bowls, containers, spoons and mixing devices used, or intended for use to compound a controlled substance; (i)  capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers used, or intended for use to package small quantities of a controlled substance; (j)  containers and other objects used, or intended for use to store or conceal a controlled substance; (k)  hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects used, or intended for use to parenterally inject a controlled substance into the human body, except as provided in Section 58-37a-5; and (l)  objects used, or intended for use to ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce a controlled substance into the human body, including but not limited to: (i)  metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls; (ii)  water pipes; (iii)  carburetion tubes and devices; (iv)  smoking and carburetion masks; (v)  roach clips: meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a marihuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand; (vi)  miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials; (vii)  chamber pipes; (viii)  carburetor pipes; (ix)  electric pipes; (x)  air-driven pipes; (xi)  chillums; (xii)  bongs; and (xiii)  ice pipes or chillers. See Utah Code 58-37a-3 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. Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102 Exigent circumstances: means a significant change in circumstances following the expiration of a public health emergency declared in accordance with this title that: (a)  substantially increases the threat to public safety or health relative to the circumstances in existence when the public health emergency expired; (b)  poses an imminent threat to public safety or health; and (c)  was not known or foreseen and could not have been known or foreseen at the time the public health emergency expired. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 First responder: means : (a)  a law enforcement officer as defined in Section 53-13-103; (b)  emergency medical service personnel as defined in Section 26B-4-101; (c)  firefighters; and (d)  public health personnel having jurisdiction over the location where an individual subject to restriction is found. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Health care provider: means the same as that term is defined in Section 78B-3-403. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Imitation controlled substance: means a substance designed or packaged to substantially resemble any legally or illegally manufactured controlled substance, but that is not: (a)  a controlled substance; or (b)  represented to be any legally or illegally manufactured controlled substance under Subsection 58-37-2(1)(i)(ii). See Utah Code 58-37b-2 Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies. Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers. Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit. 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. Legislative emergency response committee: means the same as that term is defined in Section 53-2a-203. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 26B-1-102 Manufacture: means the production, preparation, compounding, processing, encapsulating, tableting, packaging or repackaging, labeling or relabeling, of an imitation controlled substance. See Utah Code 58-37b-2 Opiate: means any drug or other substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Order of constraint: includes a stay-at-home order. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Order of restriction: means an order issued by a department or a district court which requires an individual or group of individuals who are subject to restriction to submit to an examination, treatment, isolation, or quarantine. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Person: means any corporation, association, partnership, trust, other institution or entity or one or more individuals. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Practitioner: means a physician, dentist, naturopathic physician, veterinarian, pharmacist, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, administer, or use in teaching or chemical analysis a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Prescribe: means to issue a prescription: (i)  orally or in writing; or (ii)  by telephone, facsimile transmission, computer, or other electronic means of communication as defined by division rule. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Prescription: means an order issued: (i)  by a licensed practitioner, in the course of that practitioner's professional practice or by collaborative pharmacy practice agreement; and (ii)  for a controlled substance or other prescription drug or device for use by a patient or an animal. See Utah Code 58-37-2 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 Public health emergency: means an occurrence or imminent credible threat of an illness or health condition, caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or novel and highly fatal infectious agent or biological toxin, that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of human fatalities or incidents of permanent or long-term disability. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 Public health official: means : (a)  the executive director or the executive director's authorized representative; or (b)  the executive director of a local health department or the executive director's authorized representative. See Utah Code 26B-7-301 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 State: means the state of Utah. See Utah Code 58-37-2 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 26B-7-301 Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Ultimate user: means any person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the person's own use, for the use of a member of the person's household, or for administration to an animal owned by the person or a member of the person's household. See Utah Code 58-37-2 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 use: means the joint or individual ownership, control, occupancy, holding, retaining, belonging, maintaining, or the application, inhalation, swallowing, injection, or consumption, as distinguished from distribution, of controlled substances and includes individual, joint, or group possession or use of controlled substances. See Utah Code 58-37-2 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5