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2021 Utah Code
Title 53B - State System of Higher Education
Chapter 2 - Institutions of Higher Education
Section 113 - Vaccination requirements -- Exemptions -- Face covering requirements.
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UT Code § 53B-2-113 (2021)
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Effective 5/28/2021
53B-2-113. Vaccination requirements -- Exemptions -- Face covering requirements.
Amended by Chapter 7, 2021 Special Session 1
53B-2-113. Vaccination requirements -- Exemptions -- Face covering requirements.
- (1) An institution of higher education described in Section 53B-2-101 may not require proof of vaccination as a condition for enrollment or attendance unless the institution allows for the following exemptions:
- (a) a medical exemption if the student provides to the institution a statement that the claimed exemption is for a medical reason; and
- (b) a personal exemption if the student provides to the institution a statement that the claimed exemption is for a personal or religious belief.
- (2) An institution that offers both remote and in-person learning options may not deny a student who is exempt from a requirement to receive a vaccine under Subsection (1) to participate in an in-person learning option based upon the student's vaccination status.
- (3)
- (a) For purposes of this Subsection (3), "face covering" means the same as that term is defined in Section 53G-9-210.
- (b) An institution of higher education described in Section 53B-2-101 may not require an individual to wear a face covering to attend or participate in in-person instruction, institution-sponsored athletics, institution-sponsored extracurricular activities, in dormitories, or in any other place on a campus of an institution within the system of higher education at any time after the end of the spring semester in 2021.
- (4) Subsections (1), (2), and (3) do not apply to a student studying in a medical setting at an institution of higher education.
- (5) Nothing in this section restricts a state or local health department from acting under applicable law to contain the spread of an infectious disease.
Amended by Chapter 7, 2021 Special Session 1
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