Utah legal term
Manufacture in Utah Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Utah legislative session
In Utah criminal law, “Manufacture” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Utah criminal code.
What does “Manufacture” mean in Utah criminal law?
"Manufacture" means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis. (Utah Code Ann. § 58-37-101)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Unlawful delivery of drug paraphernalia
- Unlawful use of a license number in the course of manufacturing or distributing a controlled substance
- Unlawfully producing, manufacturing, or dispensing a controlled substance or counterfeit substance
- Endangerment of a child or vulnerable adult
- Manufacture of an unlawful telecommunication device
- Manufacture or possession of instrument for burglary or theft
- Red phosphorus is a precursor
- Traffic in intercepting devices
- Unfair discrimination by a buyer of milk, cream, or butterfat
- Unlawful failure to mark a container of a high explosive held for sale or use
- Unlawful manufacture of an imitation controlled substance
- Unlawful manufacture, possession, sale, use, or attempted use of a hoax weapon of mass destruction
Related terms in the same statutes
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