2011 Utah Code
Title 76 Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 5 Offenses Against the Person
Section 207.5 Automobile homicide involving text messaging or electronic mail communication while driving.

76-5-207.5. Automobile homicide involving text messaging or electronic mail communication while driving.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Handheld wireless communication device" has the same meaning as defined in Section 41-6a-1716.
(b) "Motor vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle and includes any automobile, truck, van, motorcycle, train, engine, watercraft, or aircraft.
(c) "Text messaging" has the same meaning as defined in Section 76-4-401.
(2) (a) As used in this Subsection (2), "negligent" means simple negligence, the failure to exercise that degree of care that reasonable and prudent persons exercise under like or similar circumstances.
(b) Criminal homicide is automobile homicide, a third degree felony, if the person operates a moving motor vehicle in a negligent manner:
(i) while using a handheld wireless communication device for text messaging or electronic mail communication in violation of Section 41-6a-1716; and
(ii) causing the death of another.
(3) (a) As used in this Subsection (3), "criminally negligent" means criminal negligence as defined by Subsection 76-2-103(4).
(b) Criminal homicide is automobile homicide, a second degree felony, if the person operates a moving motor vehicle in a criminally negligent manner:
(i) while using a handheld wireless communication device for text messaging or electronic mail communication in violation of Section 41-6a-1716; and
(ii) causing the death of another.