Utah legal term
Owner in Utah Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Utah legislative session
In Utah criminal law, “Owner” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Utah criminal code.
What does “Owner” mean in Utah criminal law?
"Owner" includes a partial owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of a building and the property on which the building is located. (Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-409.3)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Accident involving property damage
- Allowing a vicious animal to go at large
- Assault or threat of violence against health care provider, emergency medical service worker, or health facility employee, owner, or contractor
- Criminal trespass
- Damage to mail receptacle
- Defacement by graffiti defined
- Game fowl fighting
- Library theft
- Misusing public money or public property
- Theft by custodian of property pursuant to repair or rental agreement
- Theft by receiving stolen property
- Theft of lost, mislaid, or mistakenly delivered property
Related terms in the same statutes
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