Utah legal term
Record in Utah Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Utah legislative session
In Utah criminal law, “Record” 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 “Record” mean in Utah criminal law?
"Record" means a book, letter, document, paper, map, plan, photograph, file, card, tape, recording, electronic data, or other documentary material regardless of physical form or characteristics. (Utah Code Ann. § 77-38-403)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Causing a catastrophe
- Crimes for which probation, suspension of sentence, lower category of offense, or hospitalization may not be granted
- Enhancement of an offense for road rage
- Library theft
- Making a false alarm
- Maximum speed in a school zone
- Recorded or photographed voyeurism
- Records filed with intent to harass or defraud
- Tampering with evidence
- Unlawfully distributing or agreeing to distribute a controlled substance or counterfeit substance
- Unlawfully possessing a controlled substance or counterfeit substance with intent to distribute
- Wanton destruction of livestock
Related terms in the same statutes
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