Utah legal term
Performance in Utah Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Utah legislative session
In Utah criminal law, “Performance” 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 “Performance” mean in Utah criminal law?
"Performance" means any physical human bodily activity, whether engaged in alone or with other individuals, including singing, speaking, dancing, acting, simulating, or pantomiming. (Utah Code Ann. § 76-5c-101)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Assault against a child welfare worker or a family member of a child welfare worker
- Distributing pornographic material
- Making a written false statement
- Patronizing a child victim of human labor trafficking
- Patronizing a victim of human labor trafficking
- Patronizing a vulnerable adult victim of human labor trafficking
- Possession of a dangerous weapon in an airport secure area
- Aggravated assault with intent to impede, intimidate, interfere, or retaliate against a judge or member of the Board of Pardons and Parole or acting against a family member of a judge or a member of the Board of Pardons and Parole
- Aggravated sexual extortion
- Aiding or abetting a minor in distributing pornographic material or obscene animal abuse material
- Assault with intent to commit bus hijacking
- Assault with intent to impede, intimidate, interfere, or retaliate against a judge or member of the Board of Pardons and Parole or acting against a family member of a judge or a member of the Board of Pardons and Parole
Related terms in the same statutes
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