2022 Utah Code
Title 58 - Occupations and Professions
Chapter 37d - Clandestine Drug Lab Act
Section 6 - Legal inference of intent -- Illegal possession of a controlled substance precursor or clandestine laboratory equipment.

Universal Citation: UT Code § 58-37d-6 (2022)
Effective 5/14/2019
58-37d-6. Legal inference of intent -- Illegal possession of a controlled substance precursor or clandestine laboratory equipment.
The trier of fact may infer that a defendant intended to engage in a clandestine laboratory operation if the defendant:
  • (1) is in illegal possession of a controlled substance precursor; or
  • (2) illegally possesses or attempts to illegally possess a controlled substance or controlled substance precursor and is in possession of any one of the following pieces of equipment:
    • (a) glass reaction vessel;
    • (b) separatory funnel;
    • (c) glass condenser;
    • (d) analytical balance;
    • (e) heating mantle;
    • (f) pill press machine or similar device;
    • (g) closed loop extraction system;
    • (h) extraction tube; or
    • (i) rotary evaporator.


Amended by Chapter 420, 2019 General Session
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