Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53B > Chapter 28 > Part 3 - Campus Sexual Violence

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alleged perpetrator: means an individual whom a victim alleges committed an act of sexual violence against the victim. See Utah Code 53B-28-301
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Code of conduct: means an institution's student code of conduct, student code of ethics, honor code, or other policy under which the institution may sanction a student. See Utah Code 53B-28-301
• Covered allegation: means an allegation made to an institution that an individual committed an act of sexual violence. See Utah Code 53B-28-301
• institution: means a public or private postsecondary institution that is located in Utah, including an institution of higher education listed in Section 53B-1-102. See Utah Code 53B-28-102
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Law enforcement agency: means an off-campus law enforcement agency of the unit of local government with jurisdiction to respond to a covered allegation. See Utah Code 53B-28-301
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Sexual violence: means :
       (5)(a) sexual abuse as described in Utah Code 53B-28-301
• Student: means an individual enrolled in an institution. See Utah Code 53B-28-301
• Victim: means a student who alleges that the student was a victim of sexual violence. See Utah Code 53B-28-301