2015 Utah Code
Title 63G - General Government
Chapter 18 - Government Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act
Section 105 - Reporting.

Effective 3/27/2015
63G-18-105. Reporting.

• (1) Except as provided by Subsections (2) and (3), before March 31 of each year, a law enforcement agency that operated an unmanned aircraft system in the previous calendar year shall submit to the Utah Department of Public Safety, and make public on the law enforcement agency's website, a written report containing:
  • (a) the number of times the law enforcement agency operated an unmanned aircraft system in the previous calendar year;
  • (b) the number of criminal investigations aided by the use of an unmanned aircraft system operated by the law enforcement agency in the previous calendar year;
  • (c) a description of how the unmanned aircraft system was helpful to each investigation described in Subsection (1)(b);
  • (d) the frequency with which data was collected, and the type of data collected, by an unmanned aircraft system operated by the law enforcement agency on any person, structure, or area other than a target in the previous calendar year;
  • (e) the number of times a law enforcement agency received, from a person who is not a law enforcement agency, data collected by an unmanned aircraft system; and
  • (f) the total cost of the unmanned aircraft system program operated by the law enforcement agency in the previous calendar year, including the source of any funds used to operate the program.

• (2)
  • (a) A law enforcement agency that submits a report described in Subsection (1) may exclude from the report information pertaining to an ongoing investigation.
  • (b) A law enforcement agency that excludes information under Subsection (2)(a) from the report shall report the excluded information to the Utah Department of Public Safety on the annual report in the year following the year in which the investigation to which the information pertains is concluded.

• (3) A law enforcement agency is not required to submit, under Subsection (1), to the Department of Public Safety information pertaining to the use of an unmanned aircraft system operated at a testing site.

• (4) Before May 31 of each year, the Utah Department of Public Safety shall, for all reports received under Subsection (1) during the previous calendar year:
  • (a) transmit to the Government Operations Interim Committee and post on the department's website a report containing:
    • (i) a summary of the information reported to the department;
    • (ii) the total number of issued warrants authorizing the operation of an unmanned aircraft system; and
    • (iii) the number of denied warrants for the operation of an unmanned aircraft system; and
  • (b) post on the department's website each report the department received.

Amended by Chapter 269, 2015 General Session