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2025 Utah Code
Title 76 - Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 8 - Offenses Against the Administration of Government
Part 4 - Offenses Against Public Property
Section 412 - Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by custodian.
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UT Code § 76-8-412 (2025)
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Effective 5/1/2024
76-8-412. Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by custodian.
Amended by Chapter 96, 2024 General Session
76-8-412. Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by custodian.
- (1)
- (a)As used in this section, "public record" means the following records filed or deposited in a public office:
- (i)a record;
- (ii)a map;
- (iii)a book; or
- (iv)a paper or proceeding of a court.
- (b)Terms defined in Sections 76-1-101.5 and 76-8-101 apply to this section.
- (a)As used in this section, "public record" means the following records filed or deposited in a public office:
- (2)An actor commits stealing, destroying, or mutilating a public record by a custodian if the actor:
- (a)is a government officer who has custody of a public record; and
- (b)steals, willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, falsifies, removes, or secrets the whole or a part of the public record or permits another individual to do so.
- (3)A violation of Subsection (2) is a third degree felony.
Amended by Chapter 96, 2024 General Session
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