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2025 Utah Code
Title 45 - Publication and Broadcasting
Chapter 2 - Libel
Section 2 - Libel and slander defined.
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UT Code § 45-2-2 (2025)
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Effective 5/7/2025
45-2-2. Libel and slander defined.
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Amended by Chapter 302, 2025 General Session
45-2-2. Libel and slander defined.
As used in this chapter:
- (1)"Libel" means a malicious defamation, expressed either by printing or by signs or pictures or the like, tending to blacken the memory of an individual who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue or reputation, or publish the natural defects of an individual who is alive, and thereby to expose the individual to public hatred, contempt or ridicule.
- (2)"Slander" means any libel communicated by spoken words.
Amended by Chapter 302, 2025 General Session
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