2011 Utah Code
Title 76 Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 9 Offenses Against Public Order and Decency
Section 509 Conveying false or libelous material to newspaper or broadcasting stations.

76-9-509. Conveying false or libelous material to newspaper or broadcasting stations.
Any person who willfully states, conveys, delivers, or transmits, by any means whatsoever, to the manager, editor, publisher, reporter, or agent of any radio station, television station, newspaper, magazine, periodical, or serial for publication therein, any false or libelous statement concerning any person, and thereby secures actual publication of the same, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

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