(1) The Legislature and its staff offices shall designate and classify records in accordance with Sections 63G-2-301 through 63G-2-305 as public, private, controlled, or protected.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 63G-2-703

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Person: means :
         (17)(a) an individual;
         (17)(b) a nonprofit or profit corporation;
         (17)(c) a partnership;
         (17)(d) a sole proprietorship;
         (17)(e) other type of business organization; or
         (17)(f) any combination acting in concert with one another. See Utah Code 63G-2-103
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State archivist: means the director of the state archives. See Utah Code 63G-2-103
(2)

     (2)(a) The Legislature and its staff offices are not subject to:

          (2)(a)(i) Section 63G-2-203 or 63G-2-209; or
     (2)(b) The Legislature is subject to only the following sections in Title 63A, Chapter 12, Division of Archives and Records Service and Management of Government Records: Sections 63A-12-102, 63A-12-102.5, and 63A-12-106.
(3) The Legislature, through the Legislative Management Committee:

     (3)(a)

          (3)(a)(i) shall establish policies to handle requests for classification, designation, fees, access, denials, segregation, appeals, management, retention, and amendment of records; and
          (3)(a)(ii) may establish an appellate board to hear appeals from denials of access; and
     (3)(b) may establish:

          (3)(b)(i) a process for determining that a person is a vexatious requester, including a process for an appeal from a determination that a person is a vexatious requester; and
          (3)(b)(ii) appropriate limitations on a person determined to be a vexatious requester.
(4) Policies shall include reasonable times for responding to access requests consistent with the provisions of Part 2, Access to Records, fees, and reasonable time limits for appeals.
(5) Upon request, the state archivist shall:

     (5)(a) assist with and advise concerning the establishment of a records management program in the Legislature; and
     (5)(b) as required by the Legislature, provide program services similar to those available to the executive branch of government, as provided in this chapter and Title 63A, Chapter 12, Division of Archives and Records Service and Management of Government Records.