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Utah Code Title 78B. Judicial Code § 78B-7-1101. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in this part:

(1) “Employee” means an employee in the service of an employer for compensation.

(2) “Employer” means a person who employs an individual in this state.

(3) “Ex parte workplace violence protective order” means an order issued without notice to the respondent under this part.

(4) “Protective order” means:

(a) a workplace violence protective order; or

(b) an ex parte workplace violence protective order.

(5) “Workplace violence” means knowingly causing or threatening to cause bodily injury to, or significant damage to the property of, a person, if:

(a) the person is:

(i) an employer; or

(ii) an employee performing the employee's duties as an employee; and

(b)(i) the action would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or harassed; or

(ii) the threat:

(A) would cause a reasonable person to fear that the threat will be carried out; and

(B) if carried out, would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or harassed.

(6) “Workplace violence protective order” means an order issued under this part after a hearing on the petition, of which the petitioner and respondent have been given notice.

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