Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63G > Chapter 7 > Part 9 - Coverage and Representation of State Entities and Employees

• Claim: means any asserted demand for or cause of action for money or damages, whether arising under the common law, under state constitutional provisions, or under state statutes, against a governmental entity or against an employee in the employee's personal capacity. See Utah Code 63G-7-102
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Employee: includes :
            (3)(a)(i) a governmental entity's officers, employees, servants, trustees, or commissioners;
            (3)(a)(ii) a member of a governing body;
            (3)(a)(iii) a member of a government entity board;
            (3)(a)(iv) a member of a government entity commission;
            (3)(a)(v) members of an advisory body, officers, and employees of a Children's Justice Center created in accordance with Section 67-5b-102;
            (3)(a)(vi) a student holding a license issued by the State Board of Education;
            (3)(a)(vii) an educational aide;
            (3)(a)(viii) a student engaged in an internship under Section 53B-16-402 or 53G-7-902;
            (3)(a)(ix) a volunteer, as defined in Section 67-20-2; and
            (3)(a)(x) a tutor. See Utah Code 63G-7-102
• Governmental entity: means :
       (4)(a) the state and its political subdivisions; and
       (4)(b) a law enforcement agency, as defined in Section 53-1-102, that employs one or more law enforcement officers, as defined in Section 53-13-103. See Utah Code 63G-7-102
• Injury: means death, injury to a person, damage to or loss of property, or any other injury that a person may suffer to the person or estate, that would be actionable if inflicted by a private person or the private person's agent. See Utah Code 63G-7-102
• 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.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means the state of Utah, and includes each office, department, division, agency, authority, commission, board, institution, hospital, college, university, Children's Justice Center, or other instrumentality of the state. See Utah Code 63G-7-102
• Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:
       (42)(a) on the day on which the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code was enacted; or
       (42)(b)

            (42)(b)(i) after the day described in Subsection (42)(a); and

            (42)(b)(ii) before the most recent amendment to the referenced portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5