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2012 Utah Code
Title 64 - State Institutions
Article 13 - Department of Corrections-State Prison
Section 16 - Inmate employment.


UT Code § 64-13-16 (2012) What's This?

64-13-16. Inmate employment.

(1) The department may employ inmates, unless incapable of employment because of sickness or other infirmity or for security reasons, to the degree that funding and available resources allow. An offender may not be employed on work which benefits any employee or officer of the department.

(2) An offender employed under this section is not considered an employee, worker, workman, or operative for purposes of Title 34A, Chapter 2, Workers' Compensation Act, except as required by federal statute or regulation.


Amended by Chapter 10, 1997 General Session

Amended by Chapter 375, 1997 General Session

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