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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code Title 76: Chapter 5c Pornographic and Harmful Materials and Performances (anchor)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Utah Legislature's official Utah Code site (le.utah.gov) lists Title 76 of the Utah Code with the entry quoted here. Chapter 5c holds Utah's obscenity definitions and offences.",
      "body": "The Utah Legislature's official Utah Code site (le.utah.gov) lists Title 76 of the Utah Code with the entry quoted here. Chapter 5c holds Utah's obscenity definitions and offences.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“Chapter 5c Pornographic and Harmful Materials and Performances”\n\nNote: Anchor record: the legislature's own code site, le.utah.gov (state domain), Title 76 index page.",
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      "source_link": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/C76_2026050620260701.html",
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      "evidence_quote": "Chapter 5c Pornographic and Harmful Materials and Performances",
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      "subject": "Utah Code Title 76",
      "topic": "Chapter 5c Pornographic and Harmful Materials and Performances (anchor)",
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      "applies_to_scope": "UT",
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          "us-ut"
        ],
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        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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        ],
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101: Definition of pornographic (obscenity test)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101(16): material or a performance is pornographic if, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole it appeals to prurient interest in sex, is patently offensive in depicting nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse or excretion, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-101(16): material or a performance is pornographic if, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole it appeals to prurient interest in sex, is patently offensive in depicting nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse or excretion, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“\"Pornographic\" means: (a) the average individual, applying contemporary community standards, finds that, taken as a whole, the material or performance appeals to prurient interest in sex; (b) the material or performance is patently offensive in the description or depiction of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, or excretion; and (c) taken as a whole the material or performance does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Pornographic\" means: (a) the average individual, applying contemporary community standards, finds that, taken as a whole, the material or performance appeals to prurient interest in sex; (b) the material or performance is patently offensive in the description or depiction of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, or excretion; and (c) taken as a whole the material or performance does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.",
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      "topic": "Definition of pornographic (obscenity test)",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101: Definition of harmful to minors",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101(8)(a): harmful to minors is that quality of any description or representation of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct with an animal or animal crushing which appeals to the prurient interest of minors, is patently offensive to adult community standards for minors, and lacks serious value for minors.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-101(8)(a): harmful to minors is that quality of any description or representation of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct with an animal or animal crushing which appeals to the prurient interest of minors, is patently offensive to adult community standards for minors, and lacks serious value for minors.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“\"Harmful to minors\" means that quality of any description or representation, in whatsoever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct with an animal, or animal crushing when it: (i) taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex of minors; (ii) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and (iii) taken as a whole, does not have serious value for minors.”",
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      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Harmful to minors\" means that quality of any description or representation, in whatsoever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct with an animal, or animal crushing when it: (i) taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex of minors; (ii) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and (iii) taken as a whole, does not have serious value for minors.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101: Definition of nudity",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101(13): nudity is the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than an opaque covering, a female breast with less than an opaque covering or any portion below the top of the areola, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-101(13): nudity is the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than an opaque covering, a female breast with less than an opaque covering or any portion below the top of the areola, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“\"Nudity\" means: (a) the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks, with less than an opaque covering; (b) the showing of a female breast with less than an opaque covering, or any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola; or (c) the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.”",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Nudity\" means: (a) the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks, with less than an opaque covering; (b) the showing of a female breast with less than an opaque covering, or any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola; or (c) the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101: Definition of sexual conduct",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101(19): sexual conduct means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or any touching of an individual's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex, in an act of apparent or actual sexual stimulation or gratification.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-101(19): sexual conduct means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or any touching of an individual's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex, in an act of apparent or actual sexual stimulation or gratification.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“\"Sexual conduct\" means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or any touching of an individual's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if the individual is a female, breast, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex in an act of apparent or actual sexual stimulation or gratification.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Sexual conduct\" means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or any touching of an individual's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if the individual is a female, breast, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex in an act of apparent or actual sexual stimulation or gratification.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101: Knowingly includes constructive awareness",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-101(9): knowingly, regarding material or a performance, means awareness, whether actual or constructive, of its character.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-101(9): knowingly, regarding material or a performance, means awareness, whether actual or constructive, of its character.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“\"Knowingly,\" regarding material or a performance, means an awareness, whether actual awareness or constructive awareness, of the character of the material or performance.”",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Knowingly,\" regarding material or a performance, means an awareness, whether actual awareness or constructive awareness, of the character of the material or performance.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-102: Commercial exploitation is probative of lack of value",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-102(1): where the circumstances of production, sale or publicity indicate the matter is commercially exploited for its prurient appeal, that evidence is probative and can justify the conclusion that it has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-102(1): where the circumstances of production, sale or publicity indicate the matter is commercially exploited for its prurient appeal, that evidence is probative and can justify the conclusion that it has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“where circumstances of production, presentation, sale, dissemination, distribution, exhibition, or publicity indicate that the matter is being commercially exploited by the actor for the sake of the matter's prurient appeal, this evidence is probative with respect to the nature of the matter and can justify the conclusion that, in the context in which the matter is used, the matter has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "where circumstances of production, presentation, sale, dissemination, distribution, exhibition, or publicity indicate that the matter is being commercially exploited by the actor for the sake of the matter's prurient appeal, this evidence is probative with respect to the nature of the matter and can justify the conclusion that, in the context in which the matter is used, the matter has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.",
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          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
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      "id": "learn_r846_utah_obscenity_and_distribution_846_utah_obscenity_and_distribution_s202",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202: Distributing pornographic material: elements",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202(2): knowingly sending pornographic material into the state, preparing, publishing or possessing it with intent to distribute, distributing or offering to distribute it, creating or soliciting its advertising, or presenting a pornographic performance in public.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-202(2): knowingly sending pornographic material into the state, preparing, publishing or possessing it with intent to distribute, distributing or offering to distribute it, creating or soliciting its advertising, or presenting a pornographic performance in public.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“An actor commits distributing pornographic material if the actor knowingly: (a) sends or brings pornographic material into the state with intent to distribute or exhibit the pornographic material to another individual; (b) prepares, publishes, prints, or possesses pornographic material with intent to distribute or exhibit the pornographic material to another individual; (c) distributes or offers to distribute, or exhibits or offers to exhibit, pornographic material to another individual; (d) writes, creates, or solicits the publication or advertising of pornographic material; (e) promotes the distribution or exhibition of material the actor represents to be pornographic; or (f) presents or directs a pornographic performance in a public place or a place exposed to public view or participates in that portion of the performance which makes the performance pornographic.”",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Utah Legislature (Utah Code)",
      "evidence_quote": "An actor commits distributing pornographic material if the actor knowingly: (a) sends or brings pornographic material into the state with intent to distribute or exhibit the pornographic material to another individual; (b) prepares, publishes, prints, or possesses pornographic material with intent to distribute or exhibit the pornographic material to another individual; (c) distributes or offers to distribute, or exhibits or offers to exhibit, pornographic material to another individual; (d) writes, creates, or solicits the publication or advertising of pornographic material; (e) promotes the distribution or exhibition of material the actor represents to be pornographic; or (f) presents or directs a pornographic performance in a public place or a place exposed to public view or participates in that portion of the performance which makes the performance pornographic.",
      "volatility": "low",
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        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202: Distributing pornographic material: penalty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202(3)(a): for an actor 18 or older, a third degree felony with a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000 plus $10 for each article exhibited, and incarceration without suspension of not less than 30 days.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-202(3)(a): for an actor 18 or older, a third degree felony with a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000 plus $10 for each article exhibited, and incarceration without suspension of not less than 30 days.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“a violation of Subsection (2) is a third degree felony if the actor is 18 years old or older and is subject to: (i) a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000, plus $10 for each article exhibited up to the maximum allowed by law; and (ii) incarceration, without suspension of sentence in any way, for a term of not less than 30 days.”",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
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      "source_publisher": "Utah Legislature (Utah Code)",
      "evidence_quote": "a violation of Subsection (2) is a third degree felony if the actor is 18 years old or older and is subject to: (i) a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000, plus $10 for each article exhibited up to the maximum allowed by law; and (ii) incarceration, without suspension of sentence in any way, for a term of not less than 30 days.",
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        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
        ],
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202: Each act of distribution is a separate offence",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202(4)(c): each act of distributing pornographic material is a separate offence under the section.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-202(4)(c): each act of distributing pornographic material is a separate offence under the section.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“each act of distributing of pornographic material described in Subsection (2).”",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
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      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Utah Legislature (Utah Code)",
      "evidence_quote": "each act of distributing of pornographic material described in Subsection (2).",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "846-utah-obscenity-and-distribution",
      "subject": "Utah Code 76-5c-202",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202: Internet service provider and hosting company exemption",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-202(5): the section does not apply to an internet service provider or hosting company whose distribution is only incidental to transmitting data or providing storage, which does not aid or abet and does not knowingly receive funds from a person distributing the material in exchange for permitting the distribution.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-202(5): the section does not apply to an internet service provider or hosting company whose distribution is only incidental to transmitting data or providing storage, which does not aid or abet and does not knowingly receive funds from a person distributing the material in exchange for permitting the distribution.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“This section does not apply to an Internet service provider if: (i) the distribution of pornographic material by the Internet service provider occurs only incidentally through the Internet service provider's function of: (A) transmitting or routing data from one person to another person; or (B) providing a connection between one person and another person; (ii) the Internet service provider does not intentionally aid or abet in the distribution of the pornographic material; and (iii) the Internet service provider does not knowingly receive funds from or through a person who distributes the pornographic material in exchange for permitting the person to distribute the pornographic material.”\n\nNote: A creator who sells their own content is the distributor, not the intermediary, so this exemption is for the platform side.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5C/C76-5c-S202_2025050720250507.html",
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      "evidence_quote": "This section does not apply to an Internet service provider if: (i) the distribution of pornographic material by the Internet service provider occurs only incidentally through the Internet service provider's function of: (A) transmitting or routing data from one person to another person; or (B) providing a connection between one person and another person; (ii) the Internet service provider does not intentionally aid or abet in the distribution of the pornographic material; and (iii) the Internet service provider does not knowingly receive funds from or through a person who distributes the pornographic material in exchange for permitting the person to distribute the pornographic material.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-205: Distributing material harmful to minors: elements",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-205(2): intentionally distributing or exhibiting material harmful to minors to an individual, while knowing or believing the individual is a minor or negligently failing to determine age and the individual is a minor, is the offence.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-205(2): intentionally distributing or exhibiting material harmful to minors to an individual, while knowing or believing the individual is a minor or negligently failing to determine age and the individual is a minor, is the offence.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“An actor commits distributing material harmful to minors if the actor: (a) (i) intentionally distributes or offers to distribute, or exhibits or offers to exhibit, material harmful to minors to an individual; (ii) intentionally produces, performs, or directs any performance, before an individual that is harmful to minors; or (iii) intentionally participates in a performance before an individual that is harmful to minors; and (b) (i) knows or believes the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor; or (ii) negligently fails to determine if the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor and the individual is a minor.”",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Utah Legislature (Utah Code)",
      "evidence_quote": "An actor commits distributing material harmful to minors if the actor: (a) (i) intentionally distributes or offers to distribute, or exhibits or offers to exhibit, material harmful to minors to an individual; (ii) intentionally produces, performs, or directs any performance, before an individual that is harmful to minors; or (iii) intentionally participates in a performance before an individual that is harmful to minors; and (b) (i) knows or believes the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor; or (ii) negligently fails to determine if the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor and the individual is a minor.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "topic": "Distributing material harmful to minors: elements",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-205: Distributing material harmful to minors: penalty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-205(3)(b)(i): for an actor 18 or older the offence is a third degree felony with a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000 plus $10 per article and incarceration of not less than 14 days; a prior conviction makes it a second degree felony with a $5,000 minimum fine and at least one year.",
      "body": "Utah Code 76-5c-205(3)(b)(i): for an actor 18 or older the offence is a third degree felony with a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000 plus $10 per article and incarceration of not less than 14 days; a prior conviction makes it a second degree felony with a $5,000 minimum fine and at least one year.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“except as provided in Subsection (3)(c) , the actor is 18 years old or older and is subject to: (A) a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000, plus $10 for each article exhibited up to the maximum allowed by law; and (B) incarceration, without suspension of sentence, for a term of not less than 14 days;”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5C/C76-5c-S205_2026050620260506.html",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Utah Legislature (Utah Code)",
      "evidence_quote": "except as provided in Subsection (3)(c) , the actor is 18 years old or older and is subject to: (A) a minimum mandatory fine of not less than $1,000, plus $10 for each article exhibited up to the maximum allowed by law; and (B) incarceration, without suspension of sentence, for a term of not less than 14 days;",
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      "subject": "Utah Code 76-5c-205",
      "topic": "Distributing material harmful to minors: penalty",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Utah Code 76-5c-205: Online sales to adults 18 and over",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] 76-5c-205 reaches only distribution to a minor or to a person the actor believes to be a minor, so selling harmful-to-minors material to a verified adult is outside it; the 76-5c-202 offence for pornographic material has no age element and is the section that could reach online sales to adults.",
      "body": "76-5c-205 reaches only distribution to a minor or to a person the actor believes to be a minor, so selling harmful-to-minors material to a verified adult is outside it; the 76-5c-202 offence for pornographic material has no age element and is the section that could reach online sales to adults.\n\nWhat Utah Legislature (Utah Code) actually says:\n\n“(b) (i) knows or believes the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor; or (ii) negligently fails to determine if the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor and the individual is a minor.”\n\nNote: Interpretation of the quoted elements, not a statement the statute makes; no case law read.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5C/C76-5c-S205_2026050620260506.html",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
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      "evidence_quote": "(b) (i) knows or believes the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor; or (ii) negligently fails to determine if the individual described in Subsection (2)(a) is a minor and the individual is a minor.",
      "volatility": "medium",
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