Part 1 General Provisions 4-41a-101 – 4-41a-110
Part 2 Cannabis Production Establishment 4-41a-201 – 4-41a-205
Part 3 Cannabis Production Establishments Agents 4-41a-301 – 4-41a-302
Part 4 General Cannabis Production Establishment Operating Requirements 4-41a-401 – 4-41a-406
Part 5 Cannabis Cultivation Facility Operating Requirements 4-41a-501 – 4-41a-502
Part 6 Cannabis Processing Facility Operating Requirements 4-41a-601 – 4-41a-603
Part 7 Independent Cannabis Testing Laboratories 4-41a-701 – 4-41a-702
Part 8 Enforcement and Report 4-41a-801 – 4-41a-802
Part 9 Academic Medical Cannabis Research 4-41a-901 – 4-41a-903
Part 10 Medical Cannabis Pharmacy License 4-41a-1001 – 4-41a-1005
Part 11 Medical Cannabis Pharmacy Operation and Agents 4-41a-1101 – 4-41a-1107
Part 12 Medical Cannabis Home Delivery and Couriers 4-41a-1201 – 4-41a-1205

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 4 > Chapter 41a - Cannabis Production Establishments and Pharmacies

  • Accessory dwelling unit: means a habitable living unit added to, created within, or detached from a primary single-family dwelling and contained on one lot. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Accident and health insurance: means insurance to provide protection against economic losses resulting from:
    (i) a medical condition including:
    (A) a medical care expense; or
    (B) the risk of disability;
    (ii) accident; or
    (iii) sickness. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • account: means a trust account established at a depository institution in this state pursuant to a medical care savings account program to pay the eligible medical expenses of:
    (a) an employee or account holder; and
    (b) the dependents of the employee or account holder. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Account administrator: means any of the following:
    (a) a depository institution as defined in Section 7-1-103;
    (b) a trust company as defined in Section 7-1-103;
    (c) an insurance company authorized to do business in this state under this title;
    (d) a third party administrator licensed under Section 31A-25-203; and
    (e) an employer if the employer has a self-insured health plan under ERISA. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Account holder: means the resident individual who establishes a medical care savings account or for whose benefit a medical care savings account is established. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • accounting: means :
    (a) the systematic recording, classification, or summarizing of a financial transaction or event; and
    (b) the interpretation or presentation of the result of an action described in Subsection (1)(a). See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • Accounting services: means the creation, modification, or deletion of transactions and records in a financial accounting system, including the preparation of a county's annual financial report. See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • Actuary: is a s defined by the commissioner by rule, made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Administrator: means the same as that term is defined in Subsection (182). See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Adulterant: means any poisonous or deleterious substance in a quantity that may be injurious to health, including:
    (a) pesticides;
    (b) heavy metals;
    (c) solvents;
    (d) microbial life;
    (e) artificially derived cannabinoid;
    (f) toxins; or
    (g) foreign matter. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Adulterated: means any meat or poultry product that:
    (a) bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health, but, if the substance is not an added substance, the meat or poultry product is not considered adulterated under this subsection if the quantity of the substance in or on the meat or poultry product does not ordinarily render it injurious to health;
    (b) bears or contains, by reason of the administration of any substance to the animal or otherwise, any added poisonous or added deleterious substance that in the judgment of the commissioner makes the meat or poultry product unfit for human food;
    (c) contains, in whole or in part, a raw agricultural commodity and that commodity bears or contains a pesticide chemical that is unsafe within the meaning of 21 U. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Adversely affected party: means a person other than a land use applicant who:
    (a) owns real property adjoining the property that is the subject of a land use application or land use decision; or
    (b) will suffer a damage different in kind than, or an injury distinct from, that of the general community as a result of the land use decision. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Advertising: includes the following, if the requirements of Subsection (1)(a) are met:
    (i) a written, electronic, or printed communication;
    (ii) a communication by means of a recorded telephone message;
    (iii) a communication transmitted on radio, television, the Internet, or similar communications media; and
    (iv) a film strip, motion picture, or video. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Advisory board: means the Medical Cannabis Policy Advisory Board created in Section 26B-1-435. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Affected entity: means a county, municipality, special district, special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act, school district, interlocal cooperation entity established under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, specified property owner, property owner's association, public utility, or the Department of Transportation, if:
    (a) the entity's services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant modification because of an intended use of land;
    (b) the entity has filed with the county a copy of the entity's general or long-range plan; or
    (c) the entity has filed with the county a request for notice during the same calendar year and before the county provides notice to an affected entity in compliance with a requirement imposed under this chapter. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Agency: means :
    (a) a person other than an individual, including a sole proprietorship by which an individual does business under an assumed name; and
    (b) an insurance organization licensed or required to be licensed under Section 31A-23a-301, 31A-25-207, or 31A-26-209. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Agriculture: means the science and art of the production of plants and animals useful to man, including the preparation of plants and animals for human use and disposal by marketing or otherwise. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Amenable species: means :
    (a) livestock, including cattle, sheep, goats, swine, or equine; or
    (b) poultry, including a domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, goose, guinea, ratite, or squab. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • 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.
  • Animal: means all vertebrate or invertebrate species. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Animal: means a domesticated or captive mammalian or avian species. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Annuity: means an agreement to make periodical payments for a period certain or over the lifetime of one or more individuals if the making or continuance of all or some of the series of the payments, or the amount of the payment, is dependent upon the continuance of human life. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Antemortem inspection: means the inspection of live domesticated game immediately before slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Antemortem inspection: means an inspection of a live animal immediately before slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • 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.
  • Appeal authority: means the person, board, commission, agency, or other body designated by ordinance to decide an appeal of a decision of a land use application or a variance. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Application: means a document:
    (a) 
    (i) completed by an applicant to provide information about the risk to be insured; and
    (ii) that contains information that is used by the insurer to evaluate risk and decide whether to:
    (A) insure the risk under:
    (I) the coverage as originally offered; or
    (II) a modification of the coverage as originally offered; or
    (B) decline to insure the risk; or
    (b) used by the insurer to gather information from the applicant before issuance of an annuity contract. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • 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.
  • Artificially derived cannabinoid: means a chemical substance that is created by a chemical reaction that changes the molecular structure of any chemical substance derived from the cannabis plant. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • auditing: means an examination that is a formal analysis of a county account or county financial record:
    (a) to verify accuracy, completeness, or compliance with an internal control;
    (b) to give a fair presentation of a county's financial status; and
    (c) that conforms to the uniform classification of accounts established by the state auditor. See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • Authorized agency: means :
    (a) the attorney general;
    (b) the state fire marshal;
    (c) any state law enforcement agency;
    (d) any criminal investigative department or agency of the United States;
    (e) a district attorney;
    (f) the prosecuting attorney of any municipality or county;
    (g) the department; or
    (h) the disciplinary section of an agency licensing a service provider. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • authorized insurer: means an insurer:
    (i) holding a valid certificate of authority to do an insurance business in this state; and
    (ii) transacting business as authorized by a valid certificate. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Beneficial substances or compounds: means a substance or compound other than primary, secondary, and micro plant nutrients that can be demonstrated by scientific research to be beneficial to one or more species of plants when applied exogenously. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Blender: means a person engaged in the business of blending or mixing fertilizer, soil amendments, or both. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • board: means the Cannabis Production Establishment Licensing Advisory Board created in Section 4-41a-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Book: means a financial record of the county, regardless of a record's format. See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • Brand: means a term, design, or trade mark used in connection with one or several grades of fertilizer or soil amendment. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Bridge program: means the program established by the Department of Workforce Services on July 1, 2003:
    (a) to implement the federal health coverage tax credit program;
    (b) with federal funds; and
    (c) for qualified participants. See Utah Code 31A-38-102
  • Business of life settlements: includes the following:
    (a) offering a life settlement;
    (b) soliciting a life settlement;
    (c) negotiating a life settlement;
    (d) procuring a life settlement;
    (e) effectuating a life settlement;
    (f) purchasing a life settlement;
    (g) investing in a life settlement;
    (h) financing a life settlement;
    (i) monitoring a life settlement;
    (j) tracking a life settlement;
    (k) underwriting a life settlement;
    (l) selling a life settlement;
    (m) transferring a life settlement;
    (n) assigning a life settlement;
    (o) pledging a life settlement;
    (p) hypothecating a life settlement; or
    (q) in any other manner acquiring an interest in an insurance policy by means of a life settlement. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Cannabis: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis concentrate: means :
    (a) the product of any chemical or physical process applied to naturally occurring biomass that concentrates or isolates the cannabinoids contained in the biomass; and
    (b) any amount of a natural cannabinoid or artificially derived cannabinoid in an artificially derived cannabinoid's purified state. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis cultivation byproduct: means any portion of a cannabis plant that is not intended to be sold as a cannabis plant product. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis cultivation facility: means a person that:
    (a) possesses cannabis;
    (b) grows or intends to grow cannabis; and
    (c) sells or intends to sell cannabis to a cannabis cultivation facility, a cannabis processing facility, or a medical cannabis research licensee. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis cultivation facility agent: means an individual who:
         holds a valid cannabis production establishment agent registration card with a cannabis cultivation facility designation. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis derivative product: means a product made using cannabis concentrate. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis plant product: means any portion of a cannabis plant intended to be sold in a form that is recognizable as a portion of a cannabis plant. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis processing facility: means a person that:
    (a) acquires or intends to acquire cannabis from a cannabis production establishment;
    (b) possesses cannabis with the intent to manufacture a cannabis product;
    (c) manufactures or intends to manufacture a cannabis product from unprocessed cannabis or a cannabis extract; and
    (d) sells or intends to sell a cannabis product to a medical cannabis pharmacy or a medical cannabis research licensee. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis processing facility agent: means an individual who:
         holds a valid cannabis production establishment agent registration card with a cannabis processing facility designation. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis product: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis production establishment: means a cannabis cultivation facility, a cannabis processing facility, or an independent cannabis testing laboratory. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis production establishment agent: means a cannabis cultivation facility agent, a cannabis processing facility agent, or an independent cannabis testing laboratory agent. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis production establishment agent registration card: means a registration card that the department issues that:
    (a) authorizes an individual to act as a cannabis production establishment agent; and
    (b) designates the type of cannabis production establishment for which an individual is authorized to act as an agent. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis Research Review Board: means the Cannabis Research Review Board created in Section 26B-1-420. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Capable of use as human food: means any animal carcass, or part or product of a carcass, unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by rules of the department to deter the carcass or product's use as human food. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Certificate: means evidence of insurance given to:
    (a) an insured under a group insurance policy; or
    (b) a third party. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Certified applicator: means an individual who is licensed by the department to apply:
    (a) a restricted use pesticide; or
    (b) a general use pesticide for hire or in exchange for compensation. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Certified qualified applicator: means a certified applicator who is eligible to act as a qualifying party. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Charter school: means :
    (i) an operating charter school;
    (ii) a charter school applicant that a charter school authorizer approves in accordance with 3; or
    (iii) an entity that is working on behalf of a charter school or approved charter applicant to develop or construct a charter school building. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Chronically ill: means :
    (a) being unable to perform at least two activities of daily living, such as eating, toileting, moving from one place to another, bathing, dressing, or continence;
    (b) requiring substantial supervision for protection from threats to health and safety because of severe cognitive impairment; or
    (c) having a level of disability similar to that described in Subsection (3)(a). See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Commission: means the Utah Electronic Recording Commission established in Section 17-21a-302. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and food. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Institutions. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • Commissioner: includes a person authorized by the commissioner to carry out the provisions of this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Community location: means a public or private elementary or secondary school, a church, a public library, a public playground, or a public park. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • control: means the power, directly or indirectly, or through or in concert with one or more persons, to:
    (a) direct or exercise a controlling influence over:
    (i) the management or policies of a financial institution; or
    (ii) the election of a majority of the directors or trustees of an institution; or
    (b) vote 25% or more of any class of voting securities of a financial institution. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Corporation: means an insurance corporation, except when referring to:
    (i) a corporation doing business:
    (A) as:
    (I) an insurance producer;
    (II) a surplus lines producer;
    (III) a limited line producer;
    (IV) a consultant;
    (V) a managing general agent;
    (VI) a reinsurance intermediary;
    (VII) a third party administrator; or
    (VIII) an adjuster; and
    (B) under:
    (I) Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries;
    (II) Chapter 25, Third Party Administrators; or
    (III) Chapter 26, Insurance Adjusters; or
    (ii) a noninsurer that is part of a holding company system under Chapter 16, Insurance Holding Companies. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • County auditor: includes a person given the title of county controller under Subsection 17-19a-202(6). See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • County executive: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • County executive: means the elected chief executive officer of a county. See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • County legislative body: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • County utility easement: means an easement that:
    (a) a plat recorded in a county recorder's office described as a county utility easement or otherwise as a utility easement;
    (b) is not a protected utility easement or a public utility easement as defined in Section 54-3-27;
    (c) the county or the county's affiliated governmental entity owns or creates; and
    (d) 
    (i) either:
    (A) no person uses or occupies; or
    (B) the county or the county's affiliated governmental entity uses and occupies to provide a utility service, including sanitary sewer, culinary water, electrical, storm water, or communications or data lines; or
    (ii) a person uses or occupies with or without an authorized franchise or other agreement with the county. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Creditor: means a person, including an insured, having a claim, whether:
    (a) matured;
    (b) unmatured;
    (c) liquidated;
    (d) unliquidated;
    (e) secured;
    (f) unsecured;
    (g) absolute;
    (h) fixed; or
    (i) contingent. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Cultivation space: means , quantified in square feet, the horizontal area in which a cannabis cultivation facility cultivates cannabis, including each level of horizontal area if the cannabis cultivation facility hangs, suspends, stacks, or otherwise positions plants above other plants in multiple levels. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Custom blend: means a fertilizer blended according to specification provided to a blender in a soil test nutrient recommendation or to meet the specific consumer request before blending. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Custom exempt processing: means processing meat, wild game, amenable species, or nonamenable species as a service for the person who owns the meat, wild game, amenable species, or nonamenable species, if the person:
    (a) uses the meat, meat food products, slaughtered amenable species, wild game, or slaughtered nonamenable species for the person's own consumption, including consumption by immediate family members and nonpaying guests; or
    (b) offers the slaughtered nonamenable species for wholesale or retail sale. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deductible: means the total deductible for an employee and all the dependents of that employee for a calendar year. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Deficiency: means the amount of nutrient found by analysis to be less than that guaranteed. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Defoliant: means a substance or mixture intended to cause leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Delivery address: means :
    (a) for a medical cannabis cardholder who is not a facility, the medical cannabis cardholder's home address; or
    (b) for a medical cannabis cardholder that is a facility, the facility's address. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Food. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Food created in Chapter 2, Administration. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Department: means the Department of Financial Institutions. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • Department: means the Insurance Department. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Depository institution: is a s defined in Section 7-1-103. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Depository institution: means a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, industrial bank, credit union, or other institution that:
    (a) holds or receives deposits, savings, or share accounts;
    (b) issues certificates of deposit; or
    (c) provides to its customers other depository accounts that are subject to withdrawal by checks, drafts, or other instruments or by electronic means to effect third party payments. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • Desiccant: means a substance or mixture intended to artificially accelerate the drying of plant or animal tissue. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Development activity: means :
    (a) any construction or expansion of a building, structure, or use that creates additional demand and need for public facilities;
    (b) any change in use of a building or structure that creates additional demand and need for public facilities; or
    (c) any change in the use of land that creates additional demand and need for public facilities. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Development agreement: means a written agreement or amendment to a written agreement between a county and one or more parties that regulates or controls the use or development of a specific area of land. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means a member of the board of directors of a corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Disability: means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities, including a person having a record of such an impairment or being regarded as having such an impairment. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Disability: means a physiological or psychological condition that partially or totally limits an individual's ability to:
    (a) perform the duties of:
    (i) that individual's occupation; or
    (ii) an occupation for which the individual is reasonably suited by education, training, or experience; or
    (b) perform two or more of the following basic activities of daily living:
    (i) eating;
    (ii) toileting;
    (iii) transferring;
    (iv) bathing; or
    (v) dressing. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Distribute: means to import, consign, manufacture, produce, compound, mix, blend, or to offer for sale, sell, barter, or supply fertilizer or soil amendments in the state. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter, ship, deliver for shipment, receive, deliver, or offer to deliver pesticides in this state. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Document: means information that is:
    (a) inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and
    (b) eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the county recorder. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • Domesticated game: means one of the following that is commercially raised for wholesale or retail sale to a restaurant, store, or end consumer:
    (a) a domesticated elk;
    (b) a bison;
    (c) a game bird; or
    (d) a rabbit. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Domesticated game carcass: means any part of the slaughtered body of domesticated game, including entrails and edible meats. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Domesticated game slaughter: means the slaughter of domesticated game that is not regulated under Chapter 32, Utah Meat and Poultry Products Inspection and Licensing Act. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • Electronic document: means a document that is received by the county recorder in an electronic form. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • Employee: means the individual for whose benefit or for the benefit of whose dependents a medical care savings account is established. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Employee: means :
    (a) an individual employed by an employer; or
    (b) an individual who meets the requirements of Subsection (53)(b). See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • End consumer: means an individual who:
    (a) purchases a product directly from an agricultural operation or a facility licensed to perform custom exempt processing, as defined in Section 4-32-105; and
    (b) does not resell the purchased product. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Environment: means all living plants and animals, water, air, land, and the interrelationships that exist between them. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • EPA: means the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Equipment: means any type of ground, water, or aerial equipment or contrivance using motorized, mechanical, or pressurized power to apply a pesticide. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • ERISA: means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 88 Stat. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Escrow: means :
    (i) a transaction that effects the sale, transfer, encumbering, or leasing of real property, when a person not a party to the transaction, and neither having nor acquiring an interest in the title, performs, in accordance with the written instructions or terms of the written agreement between the parties to the transaction, any of the following actions:
    (A) the explanation, holding, or creation of a document; or
    (B) the receipt, deposit, and disbursement of money;
    (ii) a settlement or closing involving:
    (A) a mobile home;
    (B) a grazing right;
    (C) a water right; or
    (D) other personal property authorized by the commissioner. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Escrow agent: means an agency title insurance producer meeting the requirements of Sections 31A-4-107, 31A-14-211, and 31A-23a-204, who is acting through an individual title insurance producer licensed with an escrow subline of authority. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • 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: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a person or body elected as the county executive or a person appointed as the county manager or administrative officer, refers to:
    (a) the power and duty to carry laws and ordinances into effect and secure their due observance; and
    (b) those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the executive branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
  • 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.
  • Family member: means a parent, step-parent, spouse, child, sibling, step-sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, first cousin, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, or grandchild. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Farm custom slaughter: means custom exempt slaughtering of an animal, amenable species, or nonamenable species for an owner without official inspection. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Farm custom slaughter license: means a farm custom slaughter license issued under Section 4-32-107. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Farm custom slaughter license: means a license issued by the department to allow farm custom slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Federal acts: means :
    (a) the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Federal health coverage tax credit program: means the health care tax credit program authorized by the Trade Reform Act. See Utah Code 31A-38-102
  • Fertilizer: means a substance that contains one or more recognized plant nutrients that is used for the substance's plant nutrient content and is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, exclusive of unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, wood ashes, gypsum, and other products exempted by rule. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Fertilizer material: means a fertilizer that contains:
    (a) quantities of no more than one of the primary plant nutrients, nitrogen (N), phosphate (P2O5), Potash (K2O);
    (b) 85% plant nutrients in the form of a single chemical compound; or
    (c) plant or animal residues or by-products, or a natural material deposit that is processed so that its primary plant nutrients have not been materially changed, except through purification and concentration. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Filed: means that a filing is:
    (i) submitted to the department as required by and in accordance with applicable statute, rule, or filing order;
    (ii) received by the department within the time period provided in applicable statute, rule, or filing order; and
    (iii) accompanied by the appropriate fee in accordance with:
    (A) Section 31A-3-103; or
    (B) rule. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Filing: when used as a noun, means an item required to be filed with the department including:
    (a) a policy;
    (b) a rate;
    (c) a form;
    (d) a document;
    (e) a plan;
    (f) a manual;
    (g) an application;
    (h) a report;
    (i) a certificate;
    (j) an endorsement;
    (k) an actuarial certification;
    (l) a licensee annual statement;
    (m) a licensee renewal application;
    (n) an advertisement;
    (o) a binder; or
    (p) an outline of coverage. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Financial institution: means an institution subject to the jurisdiction of the department because of this title. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • Financial loss: includes :
    (a) out-of-pocket expenses;
    (b) reasonable attorney fees;
    (c) repair and replacement costs; or
    (d) claims payments. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • Financing entity: includes , if the requirements of Subsection (5)(a) are met, the following:
    (i) an underwriter;
    (ii) a placement agent;
    (iii) an enhancer of credit;
    (iv) a lender;
    (v) a purchaser of securities; and
    (vi) a purchaser of a policy from a life settlement provider. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Flood plain: means land that:
    (a) is within the 100-year flood plain designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency; or
    (b) has not been studied or designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency but presents a likelihood of experiencing chronic flooding or a catastrophic flood event because the land has characteristics that are similar to those of a 100-year flood plain designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Form: means , in addition to a form as defined in Section 31A-1-301:
    (a) a life settlement;
    (b) a disclosure to an owner;
    (c) a notice of intent to settle; or
    (d) a verification of coverage. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Form: means one of the following prepared for general use:
    (i) a policy;
    (ii) a certificate;
    (iii) an application;
    (iv) an outline of coverage; or
    (v) an endorsement. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Fungus: means a nonchlorophyll-bearing thallophyte or a nonchlorophyll-bearing plant of an order lower than mosses and liverworts, including rust, smut, mildew, mold, yeast, and bacteria. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • General plan: means a document that a county adopts that sets forth general guidelines for proposed future development of:
    (a) the unincorporated land within the county; or
    (b) for a mountainous planning district, the land within the mountainous planning district. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Geologic hazard: means :
    (a) a surface fault rupture;
    (b) shallow groundwater;
    (c) liquefaction;
    (d) a landslide;
    (e) a debris flow;
    (f) unstable soil;
    (g) a rock fall; or
    (h) any other geologic condition that presents a risk:
    (i) to life;
    (ii) of substantial loss of real property; or
    (iii) of substantial damage to real property. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grade: means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphate and soluble potash stated in the same terms, order, and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Guaranteed analysis: means the minimum percentage by weight of plant nutrients claimed in the following order and form:
    Total Nitrogen (N)
    ____ percent. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • 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 care provider: means the same as that term is defined in Section 78B-3-403. 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
  • Herbicide: means a substance that is toxic to plants and is used to control or eliminate unwanted vegetation. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Higher deductible: means a deductible of not less than $1,000. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Home delivery medical cannabis pharmacy: means a medical cannabis pharmacy that the department authorizes, as part of the pharmacy's license, to deliver medical cannabis shipments to a delivery address to fulfill electronic orders that the state central patient portal facilitates. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Identical plans: means building plans submitted to a county that:
    (a) are clearly marked as "identical plans";
    (b) are substantially identical building plans that were previously submitted to and reviewed and approved by the county; and
    (c) describe a building that:
    (i) is located on land zoned the same as the land on which the building described in the previously approved plans is located;
    (ii) is subject to the same geological and meteorological conditions and the same law as the building described in the previously approved plans;
    (iii) has a floor plan identical to the building plan previously submitted to and reviewed and approved by the county; and
    (iv) does not require any additional engineering or analysis. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Immediate container: means any consumer package, or any other container, in which meat or poultry products not consumer packaged are packed. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Impact fee: means a payment of money imposed under Title 11, Chapter 36a, Impact Fees Act. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Improvement completion assurance: means a surety bond, letter of credit, financial institution bond, cash, assignment of rights, lien, or other equivalent security required by a county to guaranty the proper completion of landscaping or an infrastructure improvement required as a condition precedent to:
    (a) recording a subdivision plat; or
    (b) development of a commercial, industrial, mixed use, or multifamily project. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Improvement warranty: means an applicant's unconditional warranty that the applicant's installed and accepted landscaping or infrastructure improvement:
    (a) complies with the county's written standards for design, materials, and workmanship; and
    (b) will not fail in any material respect, as a result of poor workmanship or materials, within the improvement warranty period. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Independent cannabis testing laboratory: includes a laboratory that the department or a research university operates in accordance with Subsection 4-41a-201(14). See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Independent cannabis testing laboratory agent: means an individual who:
         holds a valid cannabis production establishment agent registration card with an independent cannabis testing laboratory designation. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • 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.
  • Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Infrastructure improvement: means permanent infrastructure that is essential for the public health and safety or that:
    (a) is required for human consumption; and
    (b) an applicant must install:
    (i) in accordance with published installation and inspection specifications for public improvements; and
    (ii) as a condition of:
    (A) recording a subdivision plat;
    (B) obtaining a building permit; or
    (C) developing a commercial, industrial, mixed use, condominium, or multifamily project. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Insect: means an invertebrate animal generally having a more or less obviously segmented body:
    (a) usually belonging to the Class Insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, including beetles, bugs, bees, and flies; and
    (b) allied classes of arthropods that are wingless usually having more than six legs, including spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • insolvent: means that:
    (a) an insurer is unable to pay the insurer's obligations as the obligations are due;
    (b) an insurer's total adjusted capital is less than the insurer's mandatory control level RBC under Subsection 31A-17-601(8)(c); or
    (c) an insurer's admitted assets are less than the insurer's liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Inspector: means a department employee who is trained in:
    (a) humane handling;
    (b) antemortem and postmortem inspection;
    (c) processing inspection; and
    (d) regulatory requirements. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Institution: means :
    (a) a corporation;
    (b) a limited liability company;
    (c) a partnership;
    (d) a trust;
    (e) an association;
    (f) a joint venture;
    (g) a pool;
    (h) a syndicate;
    (i) an unincorporated organization; or
    (j) any form of business entity. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • 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
  • insurance company: means a person doing an insurance business as a principal including:
    (i) a fraternal benefit society;
    (ii) an issuer of a gift annuity other than an annuity specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3);
    (iii) a motor club;
    (iv) an employee welfare plan;
    (v) a person purporting or intending to do an insurance business as a principal on that person's own account; and
    (vi) a health maintenance organization. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Insured: means a person to whom or for whose benefit an insurer makes a promise in an insurance policy and includes:
    (i) a policyholder;
    (ii) a subscriber;
    (iii) a member; and
    (iv) a beneficiary. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Insurer: means any person or aggregation of persons:
    (a) doing insurance business, as defined in Section 31A-1-301; or
    (b) subject to the supervision of the commissioner under:
    (i) this title; or
    (ii) any equivalent insurance supervisory official of another state. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • Inventory control system: means a system described in Section 4-41a-103. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • 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.
  • Label: means any written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, a pesticide or a container or wrapper of a pesticide. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Label: means a display of printed or graphic matter upon any meat or poultry product or the immediate container, not including package liners, of any such product. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Labeling: means all labels and all other written, printed, or graphic matter:
    (i) accompanying a pesticide or equipment; or
    (ii) to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying a pesticide or equipment. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Labeling: means all labels and other printed or graphic matter:
    (a) upon any meat or poultry product or any of its containers or wrappers; or
    (b) accompanying a meat or poultry product. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Land: means land, water, air, and plants, animals, structures, buildings, contrivances, and machinery appurtenant or situated thereon, whether fixed or mobile, including any used for transportation. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Land use applicant: means a property owner, or the property owner's designee, who submits a land use application regarding the property owner's land. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Land use authority: means :
    (a) a person, board, commission, agency, or body, including the local legislative body, designated by the local legislative body to act upon a land use application; or
    (b) if the local legislative body has not designated a person, board, commission, agency, or body, the local legislative body. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Land use decision: means an administrative decision of a land use authority or appeal authority regarding:
    (a) a land use permit;
    (b) a land use application; or
    (c) the enforcement of a land use regulation, land use permit, or development agreement. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Land use permit: means a permit issued by a land use authority. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legislative: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a county commission or council, refers to:
    (a) the power and duty to enact ordinances, levy taxes, and establish budgets; and
    (b) those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the legislative branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
  • Legislative body: means the county legislative body, or for a county that has adopted an alternative form of government, the body exercising legislative powers. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: includes a certificate of authority issued to an insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Licensee: means a person who holds a valid farm custom slaughter license. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Life expectancy: means the mean number of months an individual insured under a policy to be settled can be expected to live considering medical records and appropriate experiential data. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Life insurance: means :
    (i) insurance on a human life; and
    (ii) insurance pertaining to or connected with human life. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Life settlement: includes :
    (i) the transfer for compensation or value of ownership or beneficial interest in a trust or other entity that owns a policy if the trust or other entity is formed or operated for the principal purpose of acquiring one or more policies; or
    (ii) a premium finance loan made for a policy by a lender to an owner on, before, or after the date of issuance of the policy if the owner:
    (A) receives on the date of the premium finance loan a guarantee of a future life settlement value of the policy; or
    (B) agrees on the date of the premium finance loan to sell the policy or any portion of the policy's death benefit on a date following the issuance of the policy. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Life settlement producer: means a person licensed in the state as a life insurance producer that on behalf of an owner and for consideration offers or attempts to negotiate a life settlement between the owner and one or more life settlement providers. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Life settlement provider: means a person other than an owner that enters into or effectuates a life settlement. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Life settlement purchaser: means a person that, to derive an economic benefit:
    (i) provides a sum of money as consideration for a policy or an interest in the death benefits of a policy; or
    (ii) owns, acquires, or is entitled to a beneficial interest in a trust that:
    (A) owns a life settlement; or
    (B) is the beneficiary of a policy that has been or will be the subject of a life settlement. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, poultry, domesticated elk as defined in Section 4-39-102, or any other domestic animal or domestic furbearer raised or kept for profit. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Long-term care insurance: includes :
    (i) any of the following that provide directly or supplement long-term care insurance:
    (A) a group or individual annuity or rider; or
    (B) a life insurance policy or rider;
    (ii) a policy or rider that provides for payment of benefits on the basis of:
    (A) cognitive impairment; or
    (B) functional capacity; or
    (iii) a qualified long-term care insurance contract. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Lot: means a tract of land, regardless of any label, that is created by and shown on a subdivision plat that has been recorded in the office of the county recorder. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Lot line adjustment: means a relocation of a lot line boundary between adjoining lots or between a lot and adjoining parcels in accordance with Section 17-27a-608:
    (i) whether or not the lots are located in the same subdivision; and
    (ii) with the consent of the owners of record. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Major transit investment corridor: means public transit service that uses or occupies:
    (a) public transit rail right-of-way;
    (b) dedicated road right-of-way for the use of public transit, such as bus rapid transit; or
    (c) fixed-route bus corridors subject to an interlocal agreement or contract between a municipality or county and:
    (i) a public transit district as defined in Section 17B-2a-802; or
    (ii) an eligible political subdivision as defined in Section 59-12-2219. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Meat: means the edible muscle, and other edible parts, of an animal, including edible:
    (a) skeletal muscle;
    (b) organs;
    (c) muscle found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart, or esophagus; and
    (d) fat, bone, skin, sinew, nerve, or blood vessel that normally accompanies meat and is not ordinarily removed in processing. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Meat establishment: means a plant or fixed premises used to:
    (a) slaughter animals for human consumption; or
    (b) process meat or poultry products for human consumption. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Meat product: means any product capable of use as human food that is made wholly or in part from any meat or other part of the carcass of any non-avian animal. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Medical cannabis: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis card: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis courier: means a courier that:
    (a) the department licenses in accordance with Section 4-41a-1201; and
         (b) contracts with a home delivery medical cannabis pharmacy to deliver medical cannabis shipments to fulfill electronic orders that the state central patient portal facilitates. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis courier agent: means an individual who:
    (a) is an employee of a medical cannabis courier; and
    (b) who holds a valid medical cannabis courier agent registration card. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis pharmacy: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis pharmacy agent: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis research license: means a license that the department issues to a research university for the purpose of obtaining and possessing medical cannabis for academic research. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis research licensee: means a research university that the department licenses to obtain and possess medical cannabis for academic research, in accordance with Section 4-41a-901. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis shipment: means a shipment of medical cannabis or a medical cannabis product that a home delivery medical cannabis pharmacy or a medical cannabis courier delivers to a delivery address to fulfill an electronic medical cannabis order that the state central patient portal facilitates. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis treatment: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medicinal dosage form: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Member: means a person having membership rights in an insurance corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Misbranded: means any meat or poultry product that:
    (a) bears a label that is false or misleading in any particular;
    (b) is offered for sale under the name of another food;
    (c) is an imitation of another food, unless the label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imitation" followed by the name of the food imitated;
    (d) if it has a container, the container is made, formed, or filled as to be misleading;
    (e) does not bear a label showing:
    (i) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; and
    (ii) an accurate statement of the quantity of the product in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count, provided that under this Subsection (27)(e), exemptions as to meat and poultry products not in containers may be established by rules of the department and that under this Subsection (27)(e)(ii), reasonable variations may be permitted, and exemptions for small packages may be established for meat or poultry products by rule of the department;
    (f) does not bear any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of this chapter to appear on the label or other labeling that is not prominently placed with such conspicuousness, as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling, and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use;
    (g) is a food for which a definition and standard of identity or composition has been prescribed by rules of the department under Section 4-32-109 if the food does not conform to the definition and standard and the label does not bear the name of the food and any other information that is required by the rule;
    (h) is a food for which a standard of fill has been prescribed by rule of the department for the container and the actual fill of the container falls below that prescribed unless the food's label bears, in a manner and form as the rule specifies, a statement that the food falls below the standard;
    (i) is a food for which no standard or definition of identity has been prescribed under Subsection (27)(g) unless the label bears:
    (i) the common or usual name of the food, if there be any; and
    (ii) if the food is fabricated from two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient, except that spices, flavorings, and colorings may, when authorized by the department, be designated as spices, flavorings, and colorings without naming each, provided that to the extent that compliance with the requirements of this Subsection (27)(i)(ii) is impracticable, or results in deception or unfair competition, exemptions shall be established by rule;
    (j) is a food that purports to be or is represented to be for special dietary uses, unless the label bears information concerning the food's vitamin, mineral, and other dietary properties as the department, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, prescribes by rules as necessary to inform purchasers as to the food's value for special dietary uses;
    (k) bears or contains any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, or chemical preservative, unless the food bears labeling stating that fact, provided that to the extent that compliance with the requirements of this subsection are impracticable, exemptions shall be prescribed by rules of the department; or
    (l) does not bear directly thereon and on the food's containers, as the department may prescribe by rule, the official inspection legend and establishment number of the official establishment where the product was prepared, and, unrestricted by any of the foregoing, other information as the department may require by rule to assure that the meat or poultry product will not have false or misleading labeling and that the public will be informed of the manner of handling required to maintain the meat or poultry product in a wholesome condition. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Moderate income housing: means housing occupied or reserved for occupancy by households with a gross household income equal to or less than 80% of the median gross income for households of the same size in the county in which the housing is located. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • motor fuel: means any combustible liquid or vapor used to power a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle engine. See Utah Code 4-33-103
  • Mountainous planning district: means an area designated by a county legislative body in accordance with Section 17-27a-901. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Nematode: means invertebrate animals of the Phylum Nemathelminthes and Class Nematoda, including unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or saclike bodies covered with cuticle, also known as nemas or eelworms. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • nonadmitted insurer: means an insurer:
    (i) not holding a valid certificate of authority to do an insurance business in this state; or
    (ii) transacting business not authorized by a valid certificate. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Nonamenable species: includes domesticated game, as defined in Section 4-32a-201. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • 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.
  • Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by rules of the department for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official device: means a device prescribed or authorized by the commissioner for use in applying an official mark. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official establishment: means an establishment at which inspection of the slaughter of animals or the preparation of meat or poultry products is maintained under the authority of this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official inspection: means mandatory inspection, carried out under grant of inspection issued by the department, of a slaughtered animal or preparation for slaughtering an animal, if the animal is intended for human consumption. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official inspection legend: means a symbol prescribed by rules of the department showing that a meat or poultry product was inspected and passed in accordance with this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official map: means a map drawn by county authorities and recorded in the county recorder's office that:
    (a) shows actual and proposed rights-of-way, centerline alignments, and setbacks for highways and other transportation facilities;
    (b) provides a basis for restricting development in designated rights-of-way or between designated setbacks to allow the government authorities time to purchase or otherwise reserve the land; and
    (c) has been adopted as an element of the county's general plan. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Official mark: means the official legend or other symbol prescribed by rules of the department to identify the status of an animal carcass or meat or poultry product under this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Order: means an order of the commissioner. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Organization: means a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means any of the following who resides in this state and seeks to enter into a life settlement:
    (i) the owner of a policy; or
    (ii) the holder of a certificate of a group policy. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • package: means any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic, or other receptacle, wrapper, or cover. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Parcel: means any real property that is not a lot. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Parcel boundary adjustment: means a recorded agreement between owners of adjoining parcels adjusting the mutual boundary, either by deed or by a boundary line agreement in accordance with Section 17-27a-523, if no additional parcel is created and:
    (i) none of the property identified in the agreement is a lot; or
    (ii) the adjustment is to the boundaries of a single person's parcels. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Participating: means a plan of insurance under which the insured is entitled to receive a dividend representing a share of the surplus of the insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Performance audit: means an assessment of whether a county office, officer, department, division, court, or entity, or any related county program is:
    (a) managing public resources and exercising authority in compliance with law and policy;
    (b) achieving objectives and desired outcomes; and
    (c) providing services effectively, efficiently, economically, ethically, and equitably. See Utah Code 17-19a-102
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Person: means an individual, firm, company, corporation, association, limited liability company, partnership, organization, society, business trust, service provider, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • Person: means a natural person or individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Person: includes :
    (a) an individual;
    (b) a partnership;
    (c) a corporation;
    (d) an incorporated or unincorporated association;
    (e) a joint stock company;
    (f) a trust;
    (g) a limited liability company;
    (h) a reciprocal;
    (i) a syndicate; or
    (j) another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Person: means :
    (a) an individual;
    (b) a corporation;
    (c) a limited liability company;
    (d) a partnership;
    (e) a trust;
    (f) an association;
    (g) a joint venture;
    (h) a pool;
    (i) a syndicate;
    (j) a sole proprietorship;
    (k) an unincorporated organization; or
    (l) any form of business entity. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • Pest: means :
    (i) any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed; or
    (ii) any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life, virus, bacteria, or other microorganism that is injurious to health or to the environment or that the department declares to be a pest. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide: means any:
    (a) substance or mixture of substances, including a living organism, that is intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, attract, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug, fungus, weed, or other form of plant or animal life that is normally considered to be a pest or that the commissioner declares to be a pest;
    (b) any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant;
    (c) any spray adjuvant, such as a wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, or emulsifying agent with deflocculating properties of its own used with a pesticide to aid the pesticide's application or effect; and
    (d) any other substance designated by the department by rule. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide applicator: is a person who:
    (a) applies or supervises the application of a pesticide; and
    (b) is required by this chapter to have a license. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide applicator business: means an entity that:
    (i) is authorized to do business in this state; and
    (ii) offers pesticide application services. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide dealer: means any person who distributes restricted use pesticides. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pharmacy medical provider: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plan for moderate income housing: means a written document adopted by a county legislative body that includes:
    (a) an estimate of the existing supply of moderate income housing located within the county;
    (b) an estimate of the need for moderate income housing in the county for the next five years;
    (c) a survey of total residential land use;
    (d) an evaluation of how existing land uses and zones affect opportunities for moderate income housing; and
    (e) a description of the county's program to encourage an adequate supply of moderate income housing. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Planning advisory area: means a contiguous, geographically defined portion of the unincorporated area of a county established under this part with planning and zoning functions as exercised through the planning advisory area planning commission, as provided in this chapter, but with no legal or political identity separate from the county and no taxing authority. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Plant regulator: means any substance or mixture intended, through physiological action, to accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Plat: means an instrument subdividing property into lots as depicted on a map or other graphical representation of lands that a licensed professional land surveyor makes and prepares in accordance with Section 17-27a-603 or 57-8-13. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Policy: means :
    (a) an individual or group life insurance policy;
    (b) an individual or group annuity policy;
    (c) a group life insurance certificate;
    (d) a group annuity certificate; or
    (e) a life insurance policy or an annuity policy, whether or not delivered or issued for delivery in Utah:
    (i) affecting the rights of a resident of Utah; or
    (ii) bearing a reasonable relation to Utah. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Policy: includes a service contract issued by:
    (i) a motor club under Chapter 11, Motor Clubs;
    (ii) a service contract provided under Chapter 6a, Service Contracts; and
    (iii) a corporation licensed under:
    (A) Chapter 7, Nonprofit Health Service Insurance Corporations; or
    (B) Chapter 8, Health Maintenance Organizations and Limited Health Plans. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Postmortem inspection: means the inspection of a domesticated game carcass after slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Postmortem inspection: means an inspection of a slaughtered food animal's carcass after slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Potential geologic hazard area: means an area that:
    (a) is designated by a Utah Geological Survey map, county geologist map, or other relevant map or report as needing further study to determine the area's potential for geologic hazard; or
    (b) has not been studied by the Utah Geological Survey or a county geologist but presents the potential of geologic hazard because the area has characteristics similar to those of a designated geologic hazard area. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether living or dead. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Poultry product: means any product capable of use as human food that is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass, excepting products that contain poultry ingredients in relatively small proportion or that historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and that are exempted from definition as a poultry product by the commissioner. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • 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.
  • Premium: includes , however designated:
    (i) an assessment;
    (ii) a membership fee;
    (iii) a required contribution; or
    (iv) monetary consideration. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Premium finance loan: is a loan made primarily for the purpose of making premium payments on a policy if the loan is secured by an interest in the policy. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Prepared: means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Proceeding: includes an action or special statutory proceeding. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Process: means to cut, grind, manufacture, compound, smoke, intermix, or prepare products from a domesticated game carcass. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Process: means to cut, grind, manufacture, compound, smoke, intermix, or prepare meat or poultry products. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • producer: means a person licensed or required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • program: means one of the following programs:
    (a) a program established by an employer in which the employer:
    (i) purchases a qualified higher deductible health plan for the benefit of an employee and the employee's dependents; and
    (ii) contributes on behalf of an employee into a medical care savings account; or
    (b) a program established by an account holder in which the account holder:
    (i) purchases a qualified higher deductible health plan for the benefit of the account holder and the account holder's dependents; and
    (ii) contributes an amount to the medical care savings account. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • 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 agency: means :
    (a) the federal government;
    (b) the state;
    (c) a county, municipality, school district, special district, special service district, or other political subdivision of the state; or
    (d) a charter school. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Public hearing: means a hearing at which members of the public are provided a reasonable opportunity to comment on the subject of the hearing. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public meeting: means a meeting that is required to be open to the public under Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Public street: means a public right-of-way, including a public highway, public avenue, public boulevard, public parkway, public road, public lane, public alley, public viaduct, public subway, public tunnel, public bridge, public byway, other public transportation easement, or other public way. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Qualified higher deductible health plan: means a health coverage policy, certificate, or contract that:
    (a) provides for payments for covered benefits that exceed the higher deductible; and
    (b) is purchased by:
    (i) an employer for the benefit of an employee for whom the employer makes deposits into a medical care savings account; or
    (ii) an account holder. See Utah Code 31A-32a-102
  • Qualified medical provider: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Qualified participant: means an individual:
    (a) eligible for coverage under the state program in accordance with Section 31A-38-103; and
    (b) qualified by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the United States Treasury to participate in the federal health coverage tax credit program. See Utah Code 31A-38-102
  • Qualified Production Enterprise Fund: means the fund created in Section 4-41a-104. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Qualifying party: means a certified qualified applicator who is the owner or employee of a pesticide applicator business and who is registered with the department as the individual responsible for ensuring the training, equipping, and supervision of all pesticide applicators who work for the pesticide applicator business. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Receiving zone: means an unincorporated area of a county that the county designates, by ordinance, as an area in which an owner of land may receive a transferable development right. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Recommending medical provider: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Record of survey map: means a map of a survey of land prepared in accordance with Section 10-9a-603, 17-23-17, 17-27a-603, or 57-8-13. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Reinsurance: means an insurance transaction where an insurer, for consideration, transfers any portion of the risk it has assumed to another insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Related provider trust: means a trust established by a licensed life settlement provider or a financing entity solely to hold the ownership of or beneficial interests in purchased policies in connection with financing. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Research university: means the same as that term is defined in Section 53B-7-702 and a private, nonprofit college or university in the state that:
    (a) is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities;
    (b) grants doctoral degrees; and
    (c) has a laboratory containing or a program researching a schedule I controlled substance described in Section 58-37-4. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Residential facility for persons with a disability: means a residence:
    (a) in which more than one person with a disability resides; and
    (b) which is licensed or certified by the Department of Health and Human Services under:
    (i) 1; or
    (ii) 2. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Residential roadway: means a public local residential road that:
    (a) will serve primarily to provide access to adjacent primarily residential areas and property;
    (b) is designed to accommodate minimal traffic volumes or vehicular traffic;
    (c) is not identified as a supplementary to a collector or other higher system classified street in an approved municipal street or transportation master plan;
    (d) has a posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour or less;
    (e) does not have higher traffic volumes resulting from connecting previously separated areas of the municipal road network;
    (f) cannot have a primary access, but can have a secondary access, and does not abut lots intended for high volume traffic or community centers, including schools, recreation centers, sports complexes, or libraries; and
    (g) primarily serves traffic within a neighborhood or limited residential area and is not necessarily continuous through several residential areas. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Restricted use pesticide: means :
    (a) a pesticide, including a highly toxic pesticide, that is a serious hazard to beneficial insects, animals, or land; or
    (b) any pesticide or pesticide use restricted by the administrator of EPA or by the commissioner. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Road: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Rules of order and procedure: means a set of rules that govern and prescribe in a public meeting:
    (a) parliamentary order and procedure;
    (b) ethical behavior; and
    (c) civil discourse. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Runner: includes :
    (i) a capper; or
    (ii) a steerer. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • Sanitary sewer authority: means the department, agency, or public entity with responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of sanitary sewer services or onsite wastewater systems. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Security: means a:
    (i) note;
    (ii) stock;
    (iii) bond;
    (iv) debenture;
    (v) evidence of indebtedness;
    (vi) certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement;
    (vii) collateral-trust certificate;
    (viii) preorganization certificate or subscription;
    (ix) transferable share;
    (x) investment contract;
    (xi) voting trust certificate;
    (xii) certificate of deposit for a security;
    (xiii) certificate of interest of participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease;
    (xiv) commodity contract or commodity option;
    (xv) certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in Subsections (171)(a)(i) through (xiv); or
    (xvi) another interest or instrument commonly known as a security. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Self-insurance: includes :
    (i) an arrangement under which a governmental entity undertakes to indemnify an employee for liability arising out of the employee's employment; and
    (ii) an arrangement under which a person with a managed program of self-insurance and risk management undertakes to indemnify the person's affiliate, subsidiary, director, officer, or employee for liability or risk that arises out of the person's relationship with the affiliate, subsidiary, director, officer, or employee. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance:
    (a) by any means;
    (b) for money or its equivalent; and
    (c) on behalf of an insurance company. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Sending zone: means an unincorporated area of a county that the county designates, by ordinance, as an area from which an owner of land may transfer a transferable development right. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
  • Service provider: means :
    (a) an individual licensed to practice law;
    (b) an individual licensed or certified by the state under:
    (i) this title;
    (ii) Title 41, Chapter 3, Motor Vehicle Business Regulation Act;
    (iii) Title 58, Occupations and Professions; or
    (iv) Title 61, Securities Division - Real Estate Division;
    (c) an individual licensed in another jurisdiction in a manner similar to a license described in Subsection (7)(a) or (b);
    (d) an individual practicing any nonmedical treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing; or
    (e) a hospital, health care facility, or person whose services are compensated directly or indirectly by insurance. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • Settled policy: means a policy that is acquired by a life settlement provider pursuant to a life settlement. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • 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
  • Site plan: means a document or map that may be required by a county during a preliminary review preceding the issuance of a building permit to demonstrate that an owner's or developer's proposed development activity meets a land use requirement. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Slaughter: means killing domesticated game in a humane manner, including skinning or dressing. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Slaughter: means :
    (a) the killing of an animal, amenable species, or nonamenable species in a humane manner including skinning or dressing; or
    (b) the process of performing any of the specified acts in preparing an animal, amenable species, or nonamenable species for human consumption. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Special district: includes a governmental or quasi-governmental entity that is not a county, municipality, school district, or the state. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Special purpose entity: means an entity formed by a licensed life settlement provider solely to enable the life settlement provider to gain access to institutional markets for capital. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Specified public agency: means :
    (a) the state;
    (b) a school district; or
    (c) a charter school. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Specified public utility: means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • 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 , unless the context demands otherwise:
    (a) a state;
    (b) the District of Columbia; or
    (c) the territories of the United States. See Utah Code 7-1-103
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Utah Code 17-21a-102
  • State: includes any department, division, or agency of the state. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • State electronic verification system: means the system described in Section 26B-4-202. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • State program: means the program established under this chapter:
    (a) to implement the federal health coverage tax credit program; and
    (b) for qualified participants. See Utah Code 31A-38-102
  • Statement: includes any:
    (a) 
    (i) notice;
    (ii) statement;
    (iii) proof of loss;
    (iv) bill of lading;
    (v) receipt for payment;
    (vi) invoice;
    (vii) account;
    (viii) estimate of property damage;
    (ix) bill for services;
    (x) diagnosis;
    (xi) prescription;
    (xii) hospital or doctor record;
    (xiii) x-ray;
    (xiv) test result; or
    (xv) other evidence of loss, injury, or expense; or
    (b) item listed in Subsection (8)(a) that is a computer-generated document. See Utah Code 31A-31-102
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Stranger-originated life insurance: includes when:
    (i) a policy is purchased with resources or guarantees from or through a person who, at the time of policy origination, could not lawfully initiate the policy itself; and
    (ii) at the time of policy origination, there is an agreement, whether oral or written, to directly or indirectly transfer to a third party the ownership of a policy, policy benefits, or both. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Subdivision: includes :
    (i) the division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of a parcel or lot; and
    (ii) except as provided in Subsection (70)(c), divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Subdivision amendment: means an amendment to a recorded subdivision in accordance with Section 17-27a-608 that:
    (i) vacates all or a portion of the subdivision;
    (ii) alters the outside boundary of the subdivision;
    (iii) changes the number of lots within the subdivision;
    (iv) alters a public right-of-way, a public easement, or public infrastructure within the subdivision; or
    (v) alters a common area or other common amenity within the subdivision. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Substantial evidence: means evidence that:
    (a) is beyond a scintilla; and
    (b) a reasonable mind would accept as adequate to support a conclusion. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Suspect soil: means soil that has:
    (a) a high susceptibility for volumetric change, typically clay rich, having more than a 3% swell potential;
    (b) bedrock units with high shrink or swell susceptibility; or
    (c) gypsiferous silt and clay, gypsum, or bedrock units containing abundant gypsum commonly associated with dissolution and collapse features. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Terminally ill: means having a condition that reasonably may be expected to result in death within 24 months. See Utah Code 31A-36-102
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • THC: means the same as that term is defined in Section 4-41-102. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • THC analog: means the same as that term is defined in Section 4-41-102. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Therapeutic school: means a residential group living facility:
    (a) for four or more individuals who are not related to:
    (i) the owner of the facility; or
    (ii) the primary service provider of the facility;
    (b) that serves students who have a history of failing to function:
    (i) at home;
    (ii) in a public school; or
    (iii) in a nonresidential private school; and
    (c) that offers:
    (i) room and board; and
    (ii) an academic education integrated with:
    (A) specialized structure and supervision; or
    (B) services or treatment related to a disability, an emotional development, a behavioral development, a familial development, or a social development. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • 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
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Total composite tetrahydrocannabinol: means all detectable forms of tetrahydrocannabinol. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • total THC: means the same as that term is defined in Section 4-41-102. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Trade Reform Act: means the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002, 107 P. See Utah Code 31A-38-102
  • Transferable development right: means a right to develop and use land that originates by an ordinance that authorizes a land owner in a designated sending zone to transfer land use rights from a designated sending zone to a designated receiving zone. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: means "director" when referring to the board of directors of a corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • under common control: means the direct or indirect possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Unincorporated: means the area outside of the incorporated area of a municipality. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Vessel: when used with reference to shipping, includes a steamboat, canal boat, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Veterinarian: means a veterinarian licensed under Title 58, Chapter 28, Veterinary Practice Act, who has successfully completed formal training in antemortem inspection and postmortem inspection. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Veterinarian designee: means an individual designated by a veterinarian as successfully completing formal training in antemortem inspection and postmortem inspection. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Water interest: means any right to the beneficial use of water, including:
    (a) each of the rights listed in Section 73-1-11; and
    (b) an ownership interest in the right to the beneficial use of water represented by:
    (i) a contract; or
    (ii) a share in a water company, as defined in Section 73-3-3. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Weed: means any plant that grows where not wanted. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Wild game: means a species, the products of which are food, that is not classified as an amenable species or nonamenable species, including:
    (a) a deer;
    (b) an elk;
    (c) an antelope;
    (d) a moose;
    (e) a bison;
    (f) a rabbit; and
    (g) a bird. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Wildlife: means all living things that are neither human, domesticated, nor pests. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Zoning map: means a map, adopted as part of a land use ordinance, that depicts land use zones, overlays, or districts. See Utah Code 17-27a-103