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2021 Utah Code
Title 76 - Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 3 - Punishments
Part 2 - Sentencing
Section 203.11 - Reporting an overdose -- Mitigating factor.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 76-3-203.11 (2021)
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Effective 5/12/2020
76-3-203.11. Reporting an overdose -- Mitigating factor.
It is a mitigating factor in sentencing for an offense under Title 58, Chapter 37, Utah Controlled Substances Act, that the person or bystander:
  • (1) reasonably believes that the person or another person is experiencing an overdose event due to the ingestion, injection, inhalation, or other introduction into the human body of a controlled substance or other substance;
  • (2) reports, or assists a person who reports, in good faith the overdose event to a medical provider, an emergency medical service provider as defined in Section 26-8a-102, a law enforcement officer, a 911 emergency call system, or an emergency dispatch system, or the person is the subject of a report made under this section;
  • (3) provides in the report under Subsection (2) a functional description of the location of the actual overdose event that facilitates responding to the person experiencing the overdose event;
  • (4) remains at the location of the person experiencing the overdose event until a responding law enforcement officer or emergency medical service provider arrives, or remains at the medical care facility where the person experiencing an overdose event is located until a responding law enforcement officer arrives;
  • (5) cooperates with the responding medical provider, emergency medical service provider, and law enforcement officer, including providing information regarding the person experiencing the overdose event and any substances the person may have injected, inhaled, or otherwise introduced into the person's body; and
  • (6) committed the offense in the same course of events from which the reported overdose arose.


Amended by Chapter 131, 2020 General Session
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