2006 Utah Code - 53A-3-419 — Limitations regarding access for student clubs and organizations.

     53A-3-419.   Limitations regarding access for student clubs and organizations.
     (1) A local school board may limit or deny access to any student organization or club as it determines to be necessary to:
     (a) protect the physical, emotional, psychological, or moral well being of students and faculty;
     (b) maintain order and discipline on school premises; or
     (c) prevent a material and substantial interference with the orderly conduct of a school's educational activities.
     (2) (a) The Legislature finds that certain activities, programs, and conduct are so detrimental to the physical, emotional, psychological, and moral well being of students and faculty, the maintenance of order and discipline on school premises, and the prevention of any material and substantial interference with the orderly conduct of a school's educational activities, that local school boards shall deny access to any student organization or club whose program or activities would materially and substantially:
     (i) encourage criminal or delinquent conduct;
     (ii) promote bigotry; or
     (iii) involve human sexuality.
     (b) Local school boards have authority to determine whether any student club or organization meets the criteria of Subsection (2).
     (3) The State Board of Education and local school boards may adopt rules in accordance with the provisions of this section.
     (4) If any one or more provision, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this section, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is found to be unconstitutional, the balance of this section shall be given effect without the invalid provision, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word.

Enacted by Chapter 10, 1996 Special Session 2