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Terms Used In Utah Code 76-8-412

  • Actor: means a person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
     (1)(a) As used in this section, “public record” means the following records filed or deposited in a public office:

          (1)(a)(i) a record;
          (1)(a)(ii) a map;
          (1)(a)(iii) a book; or
          (1)(a)(iv) a paper or proceeding of a court.
     (1)(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 custodian if the actor:

     (2)(a) is a government officer who has custody of a public record; and
     (2)(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.