Utah Code Title 64. State Institutions § 64-13-40. Worship for native American inmates

(a) “Items used in religious ceremonies” includes cedar, corn husks, corn pollen, corn meal, eagle and other feathers, sage, sweet grass, tobacco, pipes, willow, drums, gourds, lava rock, medicine bundles, bags or pouches, staffs, and other traditional items and materials.

(b) “Native American” means an individual who is eligible for membership in a tribe recognized by the federal government.

(c) “Native American religion” means a religion or religious belief that is practiced by a native American, the origin and interpretation of which is from a traditional native American culture or community.

(d) “Native American spiritual advisor” means a person who leads, instructs, or facilitates a native American religious ceremony or service, or provides religious counseling, and includes a sweat lodge leader, medicine person, traditional religious practitioner, or holy man or woman.

(e) “Site of worship” means a site indoors or outdoors where a person can pray or meditate, or where a sweat lodge ceremony, talking circle, or individual prayer can be made.

(2)(a) At the request of any native American inmate, a state correctional facility shall reasonably accommodate the practice of the native American inmate's religion including a native American religion at each state correctional facility, unless the inmate is a maximum security inmate and accommodating the maximum security inmate would threaten the reasonable security of the state correctional facility.

(b) In accommodating a native American religion, the state correctional facility shall: