52-8 - Reports and Notices
Title 52 > 52-8
Sections (4)
General Provisions
52-8-101 - Title.
This chapter is known as “Reports and Notices.”
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 382, 2008 General Session
52-8-102 - Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Attribution” means to be responsible for the truth, correctness, and accuracy of a report.
(2) “Chief executive officer” means: the governor, for the state;the chair of the county commission or the county executive, for a county; andthe mayor, for a municipality, or if governed under a council-manager form of government, the chair of the council.
(3) “Government entity” includes the state, its agencies and institutions, each county, municipality, school district, special district, and special service district in Utah.
(4) “Promotional literature” means reports whose primary or secondary purpose is to provide nonresidents with information about the government entity that produced the report.
(5) “Report” means each account, statement, record of proceedings, summary of activities, and other written or printed document required by statute that is prepared or produced by a government entity that is distributed to the public.”Report” does not mean written or printed documents whose primary purpose is to provide biographical information about government officials.
Amended by Chapter 16, 2023 General Session
Penalties
52-8-201 - Prohibition.
(1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), a government entity may not include, as part of any report, the photograph or likeness of any elected official.
(2) A report may contain the photograph or likeness of the chief executive officer of a government entity if the report is promotional literature.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 382, 2008 General Session
52-8-202 - Penalties.
If an elected official’s photograph or likeness appears on any report in violation of this section that was prepared under the authority or at the direction of the elected official, that elected official is personally liable for the cost of preparing and distributing the report.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 382, 2008 General Session