Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 52 > Chapter 4 > Part 3 - Enforcement

• 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.
• Meeting: means the convening of a public body or a specified body, with a quorum present, including a workshop or an executive session, whether in person or by means of electronic communications, for the purpose of discussing, receiving comments from the public about, or acting upon a matter over which the public body or specified body has jurisdiction or advisory power. See Utah Code 52-4-103
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Public body: includes :

  (i)	an interlocal entity or joint or cooperative undertaking, as those terms are defined in Section 11-13-103;

  (ii)	a governmental nonprofit corporation as that term is defined in Section 11-13a-102;

  (iii)

  the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission; and

  (iv)

  a project entity, as that term is defined in Section 11-13-103. See Utah Code 52-4-103 Recording: means an audio, or an audio and video, record of the proceedings of a meeting that can be used to review the proceedings of the meeting. See Utah Code 52-4-103 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