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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 413 - Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by one not custodian.
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UT Code § 76-8-413 (2025)
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Effective 5/1/2024
76-8-413. Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by one not custodian.
Amended by Chapter 96, 2024 General Session
76-8-413. Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by one not custodian.
- (1)
- (a)As used in this section, "public record" means the same as that term is defined in Section 76-8-412.
- (b)Terms defined in Sections 76-1-101.5 and 76-8-101 apply to this section.
- (2)An actor commits stealing, destroying, or mutilating a public record by a noncustodian if the actor:
- (a)does not have lawful 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 class A misdemeanor.
Amended by Chapter 96, 2024 General Session
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