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2017 Utah Code
Title 53A - State System of Public Education
Chapter 11 - Students in Public Schools
Part 3 - Immunization of Students
Section 300.5 - Definitions. (Effective 7/1/2018)
Universal Citation: UT Code § 53A-11-300.5 (2017)
Effective 7/1/2018
53A-11-300.5. Definitions.
As used in this part:
Enacted by Chapter 344, 2017 General Session
53A-11-300.5. Definitions.
As used in this part:
- (1) "Department" means the Department of Health, created in Section 26-1-4.
- (2) "Health official" means an individual designated by a local health department from within the local health department to consult and counsel parents and licensed health care providers, in accordance with Subsection 53A-11-302.5(2)(a).
- (3) "Health official designee" means a licensed health care provider designated by a local health department, in accordance with Subsection 53A-11-302.5(2)(b), to consult with parents, licensed health care professionals, and school officials.
- (4) "Immunization" or "immunize" means a process through which an individual develops an immunity to a disease, through vaccination or natural exposure to the disease.
- (5) "Immunization record" means a record relating to a student that includes:
- (a) information regarding each required vaccination that the student has received, including the date each vaccine was administered, verified by:
- (i) a licensed health care provider;
- (ii) an authorized representative of a local health department;
- (iii) an authorized representative of the department;
- (iv) a registered nurse; or
- (v) a pharmacist;
- (b) information regarding each disease against which the student has been immunized by previously contracting the disease; and
- (c) an exemption form identifying each required vaccination from which the student is exempt, including all required supporting documentation described in Section 53A-11-302.
- (a) information regarding each required vaccination that the student has received, including the date each vaccine was administered, verified by:
- (6) "Legally responsible individual" means:
- (a) a student's parent;
- (b) the student's legal guardian;
- (c) an adult brother or sister of a student who has no legal guardian; or
- (d) the student, if the student:
- (i) is an adult; or
- (ii) is a minor who may consent to treatment under Section 26-10-9.
- (7) "Licensed health care provider" means a health care provider who is licensed under Title 58, Occupations and Professions, as:
- (a) a medical doctor;
- (b) an osteopathic doctor;
- (c) a physician assistant; or
- (d) an advanced practice registered nurse.
- (8) "Local education agency" or "LEA" means:
- (a) a school district;
- (b) a charter school; or
- (c) the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
- (9) "Local health department" means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102.
- (10) "Required vaccines" means vaccines required by department rule described in Section 53A-11-303.
- (11) "School" means any public or private:
- (a) elementary or secondary school through grade 12;
- (b) preschool;
- (c) child care program, as that term is defined in Section 26-39-102;
- (d) nursery school; or
- (e) kindergarten.
- (12) "Student" means an individual who attends a school.
- (13) "Vaccinating" or "vaccination" means the administration of a vaccine.
- (14) "Vaccination exemption form" means a form, described in Section 53A-11-302.5, that documents and verifies that a student is exempt from the requirement to receive one or more required vaccines.
- (15) "Vaccine" means the substance licensed for use by the United States Food and Drug Administration that is injected into or otherwise administered to an individual to immunize the individual against a communicable disease.
Enacted by Chapter 344, 2017 General Session
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