Effective 5/12/2020 76-8-402. Misusing public money or public property. (1) As used in this section, “authorized personal use” means: (a) the use of public property, for a personal matter, by a public servant if: (i) the public servant is authorized to use or possess the public property to fulfill the public servant’s duties as a […]
Effective 5/12/2020 76-8-403. Failure to keep and pay over public money. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection 76-8-402(4), a person who receives, safekeeps, transfers, or disburses public money who neglects or fails to keep and pay over the money in the manner prescribed by law is guilty of a felony of the third degree. Amended […]
Effective 5/12/2020 76-8-404. Making profit from or misusing public money or public property — Disqualification from office — Criminal penalty. A public officer, regardless of whether the public officer receives, safekeeps, transfers, disburses, or has a fiduciary relationship with public money, who makes a profit from or out of public money or public property, or […]
76-8-405. Failure to pay over fine, forfeiture, or fee. Every public officer who receives any fine, forfeiture, or fee and refuses or neglects to pay it over within the time prescribed by law is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Enacted by Chapter 196, 1973 General Session
76-8-406. Obstructing collection of revenue. Every person who willfully obstructs or hinders any public officer from collecting any revenue, taxes, or other sums of money in which the people of this state are interested, and which such officer is by law empowered to collect, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Enacted by Chapter 196, […]
76-8-407. Refusing to give tax assessment information, or giving false information. Every person who unlawfully refuses, upon demand, to give to any county assessor or deputy county assessor a list of his property subject to taxation, or to swear to such list, or who gives a false name, or fraudulently refuses to give his true […]
76-8-408. Giving false tax receipt or failing to give receipt. Every person who uses or gives any receipt, except that prescribed by law, as evidence of the payment for any tax or license of any kind, or who receives payment for the tax or license without delivering the receipt prescribed by law, is guilty of […]
76-8-409. Refusing to give tax assessor or tax or license collector list of, or denying access to, employees. Every person who, when requested by the assessor or collector of taxes or license fees, refuses to give to the assessor or collector the name and residence of each person in his employ, or to give the […]
76-8-410. Doing business without license. Every person who commences or carries on any business, trade, profession, or calling, for the transaction or carrying on of which a license is required by any law, or by any county, city, or town ordinance, without taking out the license required by law or ordinance is guilty of a […]
76-8-411. Trafficking in warrants. No state, county, city, town, or district officer shall, either directly or indirectly, contract for or purchase any warrant or order issued by the state, county, city, town, or district of which he is an officer, at any discount whatever upon the sum due on the warrant or order, and, if […]
76-8-412. Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by custodian. Every officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or of any paper or proceedings of any court, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his hands for any purpose, who is guilty of stealing, willfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, altering, falsifying, […]
76-8-413. Stealing, destroying or mutilating public records by one not custodian. Every person, not an officer such as is referred to in the preceding section, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Enacted by Chapter 196, 1973 General Session
76-8-414. Recording false or forged instruments. Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed or registered or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a felony […]
76-8-415. Damaging or removing monuments of official surveys. Every person who willfully injures, defaces, or removes any signal, monument, building, or appurtenance thereto, placed, erected, or used by persons engaged in the United States or state survey is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Enacted by Chapter 196, 1973 General Session
76-8-416. Taking toll or maintaining road, bridge, or ferry without authority — Refusal to pay lawful toll. Any person who demands or receives compensation for the use of any bridge or ferry, or who sets up or keeps any road, bridge, or ferry, or constructed ford, for the purpose of receiving remuneration for its use […]
76-8-417. Tampering with official notice or proclamation. Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, tears down, or destroys any copy or transcript or extract from or of any law of the United States or of this state, or any proclamation, advertisement, or notice, set up at any place in this state by authority of any law […]
Effective 9/1/2022 76-8-418. Damaging jails or other places of confinement. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Child” means the same as that term is defined in Section 80-1-102. (b) “Detention facility” means the same as that term is defined in Section 80-1-102. (c) “Secure care facility” means the same as that term is defined […]
76-8-419. Damaging highways or bridges. (1) Every person who intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly digs up, removes, displaces, breaks, or otherwise damages or destroys any public highway, or any private way laid out by authority of law, or any bridge upon the highway or private way is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. (2) If the […]
76-8-420. Removing or damaging road signs. Every person who intentionally or knowingly removes or injures any milepost or milestone or guidepost or any inscription on them, erected upon any highway, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Amended by Chapter 229, 2007 General Session
