Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63G > Chapter 12 > Part 3 - Employee Verification and Employer Sanctions

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Public Safety created in Section 53-1-103. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• E-verify program: means the electronic verification of the work authorization program of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996, Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Employee: means an individual employed by an employer under a contract for hire. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Employer: means a person who has one or more employees employed in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Permit: means a permit issued under Part 2, Guest Worker Program, and includes:
       (12)(a) a guest worker permit; and
       (12)(b) an immediate family permit. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Private employer: means an employer who is not the federal government or a public employer. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Program: means the Guest Worker Program described in Section 63G-12-201. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Program start date: means the day on which the department is required to implement the program under Subsection 63G-12-202(3). See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Public employer: means an employer that is:
       (17)(a) the state of Utah or any administrative subunit of the state;
       (17)(b) a state institution of higher education, as defined in Section 53B-3-102;
       (17)(c) a political subdivision of the state including a county, city, town, school district, special district, or special service district; or
       (17)(d) an administrative subunit of a political subdivision. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• 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
• Status verification system: includes :
            (21)(b)(i) the e-verify program;
            (21)(b)(ii) an equivalent federal program designated by the United States Department of Homeland Security or other federal agency authorized to verify the work eligibility status of a newly hired employee pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986;
            (21)(b)(iii) the Social Security Number Verification Service or similar online verification process implemented by the United States Social Security Administration; or
            (21)(b)(iv) an independent third-party system with an equal or higher degree of reliability as the programs, systems, or processes described in Subsection (21)(b)(i), (ii), or (iii). See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• U-verify program: means the verification procedure developed by the department in accordance with Section 63G-12-210. See Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Unauthorized alien: is a s defined in Utah Code 63G-12-102
• Undocumented individual: means an individual who:
       (23)(a) lives or works in the state; and
       (23)(b) is not in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act, Utah Code 63G-12-102
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5