Utah Code § 76-5b-103

Current with legislation effective through 3/21/2024
Section 76-5b-103 - [Effective Until 5/1/2024] Definitions

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Child sexual abuse material" means any visual depiction, including any live performance, photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where:
(a) the production of the visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct;
(b) the visual depiction is of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or
(c) the visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
(2) "Distribute" means the selling, exhibiting, displaying, wholesaling, retailing, providing, giving, granting admission to, or otherwise transferring or presenting child sexual abuse material or vulnerable adult sexual abuse material with or without consideration.
(3) "Identifiable minor" means a person:
(a)
(i) who was a minor at the time the visual depiction was created, adapted, or modified; or
(ii) whose image as a minor was used in creating, adapting, or modifying the visual depiction; and
(b) who is recognizable as an actual person by the person's face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a birthmark, or other recognizable feature.
(4) "Identifiable vulnerable adult" means a person:
(a)
(i) who was a vulnerable adult at the time the visual depiction was created, adapted, or modified; or
(ii) whose image as a vulnerable adult was used in creating, adapting, or modifying the visual depiction; and
(b) who is recognizable as an actual person by the person's face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a birthmark, or other recognizable feature.
(5) "Lacks capacity to consent" is as defined in Section 76-5-111.4.
(6) "Live performance" means any act, play, dance, pantomime, song, or other activity performed by live actors in person.
(7) "Minor" means a person younger than 18 years old.
(8) "Nudity or partial nudity" means any state of dress or undress in which the human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or the female breast, at a point below the top of the areola, is less than completely and opaquely covered.
(9) "Produce" means:
(a) the photographing, filming, taping, directing, producing, creating, designing, or composing of child sexual abuse material or vulnerable adult sexual abuse material; or
(b) the securing or hiring of persons to engage in the photographing, filming, taping, directing, producing, creating, designing, or composing of child sexual abuse material or vulnerable adult sexual abuse material.
(10) "Sexually explicit conduct" means actual or simulated:
(a) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
(b) masturbation;
(c) bestiality;
(d) sadistic or masochistic activities;
(e) lascivious exhibition of the genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breast of any person;
(f) the visual depiction of nudity or partial nudity for the purpose of causing sexual arousal of any person;
(g) the fondling or touching of the genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breast; or
(h) the explicit representation of the defecation or urination functions.
(11) "Simulated sexually explicit conduct" means a feigned or pretended act of sexually explicit conduct which duplicates, within the perception of an average person, the appearance of an actual act of sexually explicit conduct.
(12) "Vulnerable adult" is as defined in Subsection 76-5-111(1).
(13) "Vulnerable adult sexual abuse material" means any visual depiction, including any live performance, photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where:
(a) the production of the visual depiction involves the use of a vulnerable adult engaging in sexually explicit conduct;
(b) the visual depiction is of a vulnerable adult engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or
(c) the visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable vulnerable adult is engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

Utah Code § 76-5b-103

Amended by Chapter 231, 2023 General Session ,§ 6, eff. 5/3/2023.
Amended by Chapter 181, 2022 General Session ,§ 101, eff. 5/4/2022.
Amended by Chapter 290, 2013 General Session ,§ 1, eff. 5/14/2013.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 320, 2011 General Session
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.