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2025 Utah Code
Title 36 - Legislature
Chapter 14 - Legislative Subpoena Powers
Section 1 - Definitions.
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UT Code § 36-14-1 (2025)
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36-14-1. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
Amended by Chapter 1, 2013 Special Session 1
Amended by Chapter 1, 2013 Special Session 1
As used in this chapter:
- (1) "Issuer" means a person authorized to issue a subpoena by this chapter.
- (2) "Legislative body" means:
- (a) the Legislature;
- (b) the House or Senate; or
- (c) any committee or subcommittee of the Legislature, the House, or the Senate.
- (3) "Legislative office" means the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst, and the Office of the Legislative Auditor General.
- (4) "Legislative staff member" means an employee or independent contractor of a legislative office.
- (5) "Legislative subpoena" means a subpoena issued by an issuer on behalf of a legislative body or legislative office and includes:
- (a) a subpoena requiring a person to appear and testify at a time and place designated in the subpoena;
- (b) a subpoena requiring a person to:
- (i) appear and testify at a time and place designated in the subpoena; and
- (ii) produce accounts, books, papers, documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things designated in the subpoena; and
- (c) a subpoena requiring a person to produce accounts, books, papers, documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things designated in the subpoena at a time and place designated in the subpoena.
- (6) "Special investigative committee" is as defined in Subsection 36-12-9(1).
Amended by Chapter 1, 2013 Special Session 1
Amended by Chapter 1, 2013 Special Session 1
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