Utah legal term
Readily accessible to the general public in Utah Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Utah legislative session
In Utah criminal law, “Readily accessible to the general public” 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 “Readily accessible to the general public” mean in Utah criminal law?
"Readily accessible to the general public" means, regarding a radio communication, that the communication is not: (16)(a) scrambled or encrypted; (16)(b) transmitted using modulation techniques with essential parameters that have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of the communication; (16)(c) carried on a subcarrier or signal subsidiary to a radio transmission; (16)(d) transmitted over a communications system provided by a common carrier, unless the communication is a tone-only paging system communication; or (16)(e) transmitted on frequencies allocated (Utah Code Ann. § 77-23a-3)
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