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2024 Utah Code
Title 53G - Public Education System -- Local Administration
Chapter 7 - Public School General Requirements
Part 9 - Internships
Section 904 - Internship programs -- Criminal background checks.
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UT Code § 53G-7-904 (2024)
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Effective 5/12/2020
53G-7-904. Internship programs -- Criminal background checks.
Amended by Chapter 374, 2020 General Session
53G-7-904. Internship programs -- Criminal background checks.
- (1)
- (a) A public or private school may enter into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer.
- (b) The public or private school described in Subsection (1)(a) shall ensure that the internship safety agreement requires a cooperating employer to:
- (i) ensure that an adult officer or employee of the cooperating employer is not intentionally alone with an intern for any significant amount of time during the intern's activities;
- (ii) maintain compliance with all applicable state and federal laws relating to workplace and student safety, privacy, and welfare; and
- (iii) provide a safe, educational, courteous, and welcoming professional environment that is free of harassment or discriminatory conduct that may result in a hostile, intimidating, abusive, offensive, or oppressive learning environment.
- (2)
- (a) If a public or private school has not entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer who will be given significant unsupervised access to a student in connection with the student's activities as an intern shall submit to criminal background checks under Section 53G-11-402.
- (b) If a public or private school has entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer are exempt from the criminal background check requirement described in Section 53G-11-402.
Amended by Chapter 374, 2020 General Session
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