Utah Code Title 67. State Officers and Employees § 67-21-2. Definitions

(1) “Abuse of authority” means an arbitrary or capricious exercise of power that:

(2) “Communicate” means a verbal, written, broadcast, or other communicated report.

(3) “Damages” means general and special damages for injury or loss caused by each violation of this chapter.

(4) “Employee” means a person who performs a service for wages or other remuneration under a contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied.

(6) “Good faith” means that an employee acts with:

(7) “Gross mismanagement” means action or failure to act by a person, with respect to a person's responsibility, that causes significant harm or risk of harm to the mission of the public entity or public body that employs, or is managed or controlled by, the person.

(8) “Judicial employee” means an employee of the judicial branch of state government.

(9) “Legislative employee” means an employee of the legislative branch of state government.

(10) “Political subdivision employee” means an employee of a political subdivision of the state.

(11) “Public body” means any of the following:

(12) “Public entity” means a department, division, board, council, committee, institution, office, bureau, or other similar administrative unit of the executive branch of state government.

(13) “Public entity employee” means an employee of a public entity.

(14) “Retaliatory action” means the same as that term is defined in Section 67-19a-101.

(15) “State institution of higher education” means the same as that term is defined in Section 53B-3-102.

(16) “Unethical conduct” means conduct that violates a provision of Title 67, Chapter 16, Utah Public Officers' and Employees' Ethics Act.