Utah
Utah treats correctional officers as a category of peace officer certified by Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), with a minimum age of 19 and 40 hours of training a year. No state agency sets county jail standards. Since 2023 the State has widened restraint limits for pregnant inmates and, in 2026, extended them to 12 weeks after birth, barred prison nurseries, required housing by biological sex, let the Department of Corrections investigate its own employees, written the Division of Adult Probation and Parole into statute, and made direct supervision optional.
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At a glance
- Certifying body
- POST and the POST Council, the same body that certifies law enforcement officers; see the Utah Officer Ledger page. A “correctional officer” is “a sworn and certified officer” employed by the Department of Corrections (UDC), a political subdivision such as a county jail, or a private prison contractor, with peace officer authority only while on duty (Utah Code 53-13-104(1), (2)(a)). Agents of UDC’s Division of Adult Probation and Parole are POST-certified officers.
- Statute
- Utah Code Title 53, ch. 6 (POST: training, certification, suspension, and revocation); 53-13-104 (correctional officer); Title 64, ch. 13 (Department of Corrections), including 64-13-24 (staff training), 64-13-32 (use of force), and 64-13-46 (pregnant inmates); Title 64, ch. 14 (Division of Adult Probation and Parole, since 2025); Title 17, ch. 72 (county sheriff and jails, recodified from 17-22 in 2025).
- Minimum standards
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or lawful permanent resident with 5 years’ legal presence and work authorization; at least “19 years old at the time of certification as a special function officer or correctional officer” (21 for law enforcement officers); a high school graduate or equivalent; free of any felony-level conviction; and of good moral character shown by background investigation (53-6-203(1)). 53-13-104(6) separately bars certifying or employing a correctional officer under 19.
- Basic training
- No one may exercise the authority of an adult correctional officer before completing a basic correctional officer program that the UDC executive director certifies to POST; county correctional officers complete basic training plus any agency-required specialized training, certified by the chief administrator (53-13-104(3)). UDC must keep a correctional officer basic course approved by the POST director, and counties may run their own POST-approved programs (53-13-104(4)(a), (5)). UDC’s Fred House Training Academy runs pre-service training. Course length in hours was not found on an official page.
- In-service training
- Correctional officer in-service training must “consist of no fewer than 40 hours per year” (53-13-104(4)(b)). As peace officers, correctional officers also fall under 53-6-202(4) and (5): 40 hours of certified training a year including arrest control and de-escalation, a 3-year topic cycle on crisis intervention, mental illness and developmental disorders, and sexual trauma, and a bar on exercising peace officer powers until missed training is made up. UDC must set policies for regular staff training, “including training on appropriate supervision and trauma-informed care” (64-13-24(1), as amended in 2026).
- Decertification
- The POST Council may issue a letter of caution or suspend or revoke a correctional officer’s certification on the grounds in 53-6-211(1), as described on the Officer Ledger page. No public list of revoked officers was found.
- Jail standards
- No state agency sets or inspects county jail operating standards. The sheriff keeps the county jail, classifies jail facilities, and sets maximum operating capacity (Utah Code 17-72-401, 17-72-402). County jails file an annual data report by June 15 on population, bookings, in-custody deaths and causes, withdrawal and medication-assisted treatment policies, and, since 2026, known pregnant prisoners and parents of minor children (17-72-408). Jails that house state inmates under contract must meet UDC treatment-program standards (64-13-25(1)(d)).
- Probation and parole officers
- UDC’s Division of Adult Probation and Parole supervises adult probationers and parolees and has been in statute since 2025 (Utah Code 64-14-202). Its agents are POST-certified, so POST certification, the 40-hour annual training rule, and Council discipline apply to them.
- Restrictive housing
- No statute limiting solitary confinement or restrictive housing was found in Title 64, ch. 13 or Title 17, ch. 72 (searched October 20, 2026). The direct supervision mandate in 64-13-14 became optional in 2026 (S.B. 93).
- Corrections use of force
- UDC officers and employees may use “all reasonable means, including the use of weapons,” to defend themselves and property, enforce discipline, and prevent escapes. An inmate escaping a secure facility is presumed to pose a threat of death or serious bodily injury, and an officer is justified in using deadly force if the officer reasonably believes it necessary to apprehend the inmate (64-13-32). Peace officers and their agencies must follow POST minimum use-of-force standards (53-6-109). Pregnant and postpartum inmates, in UDC facilities and county jails (17-72-501): least restrictive restraints; no restraints in the third trimester, labor, childbirth, or 12-week postpartum recovery without an individualized finding of serious risk of harm or escape; never shackles, leg restraints, or waist restraints in those periods; written records kept 5 years (64-13-46).
Changes, 2023 to 2026
Postpartum restraint protections extended to 12 weeks after birth
“‘Postpartum recovery’ means the period of 12 weeks after the day on which a pregnant inmate gives birth,” replacing the physician-determined period in the hospital. The restraint bar in 64-13-46(4) now covers postpartum recovery as well as the third trimester, labor, and childbirth, and the existing ban on shackles, leg restraints, and waist restraints in (5) now runs for the full 12 weeks. Social worker access extends from 6 to 12 weeks, and “health care provider” replaces “physician.” UDC and county jails must report to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice the number of known pregnant inmates and of female inmates who are parents of a minor child (17-72-408 for jails; 64-13-45 for UDC).
For corrections staff: For 12 weeks after birth, restraints need a documented individualized risk finding, and leg irons and waist chains are never allowed, including on transports.
Direct supervision becomes optional at the prison
Where facilities are designed for it, UDC “may” (was “shall”) implement an evidence-based direct supervision system; if it does, the system must meet the listed goals and elements (64-13-14(4)). The act repeals the 2024 executive-director override with its website posting and annual report, and the 64-13-1 definition of “direct supervision.” Staff training standards now cover “appropriate supervision and trauma-informed care” instead of direct supervision (64-13-24(1)). The act also bars removing items from a correctional facility by drone.
For corrections staff: UDC can choose its housing-unit supervision model, and officer training follows the model in use.
UDC may investigate crimes by its own employees without the sheriff’s consent
“In accordance with department policy, the department may conduct criminal investigations regarding an allegation that” an offender or a UDC employee has committed a criminal offense (64-13-6(3)). The act repeals the former requirement that UDC notify the sheriff or other law enforcement agency and obtain its consent before investigating, and give investigative reports to the sheriff on request. It also requires probationers and parolees subject to drug testing to sign a waiver letting the testing provider report results to the supervising officer.
For corrections staff: UDC investigators can handle criminal allegations against UDC staff without first getting the sheriff’s consent.
UDC drug abuse and trafficking unit, including staff-linked smuggling
“The department shall create a drug abuse and trafficking unit within the department.” The unit targets drug abuse and trafficking by offenders in facilities and under supervision and by “individuals working directly with, or in connection with, offenders,” and shares information with law enforcement agencies statewide.
For corrections staff: Staff and contractors with inmate access are within the unit’s investigative focus.
Division of Adult Probation and Parole created in statute
“There is created within the department the Division of Adult Probation and Parole,” with a director appointed by the UDC executive director. The chapter lists the division’s duties, including supervising probationers and parolees as directed by the courts and the Board of Pardons and Parole, and data reporting. The violation detention provisions were renumbered to 64-14-205.
For corrections staff: Agents’ duties now sit in their own code chapter (64-14); update policy citations.
Pregnancy tests offered at admission to prisons and jails
“The department shall ensure that each female inmate younger than 50 years old is offered, which the inmate may reject, a test for pregnancy upon admission, or within a reasonable time after admission, to a correctional facility” (new 64-13-46(2)). Sheriffs must ensure the same offer to each female prisoner younger than 50 “who has been incarcerated for longer than 72 hours on a state or local criminal offense” (17-22-8(2)(f)). The act also added members from the courts, prosecutors, and defense lawyers to the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board, dropped its fixed four-year terms, made its report annual, and moved its repeal date from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 2027 (64-13-46.1; 63I-1-264).
For corrections staff: Intake must offer a pregnancy test to every female admitted who is under 50, at UDC on or soon after admission and in jails once she has been held more than 72 hours; she may decline.
Prisons and jails must house inmates by biological sex, with an individualized exception process
Subject to an exception process, “the department or a county jail may not: (a) assign an inmate whose biological sex at birth is male to a living area where an inmate whose biological sex at birth is female is assigned,” or the reverse. “Living area” excludes temporary placements for transfers, visitation, and medical care. A transgender inmate’s request to be housed otherwise, or a facility’s wish to do so, triggers an individualized determination with reporting duties.
For corrections staff: Any housing assignment across biological sex needs the documented individualized review in 64-13-7(5).
No nurseries in correctional facilities
New 64-13-46(10): “The department may not create or operate a nursery in a correctional facility to provide space for a female inmate and the inmate’s child.” The act repeals 64-13-46.5, the correctional facility nursery section enacted by H.B. 429 in 2023, and renumbers and amends the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board section as 64-13-46.1, striking the board’s duties to set rules for and certify a nursery.
For corrections staff: UDC may not set up a nursery that houses inmates with their infants inside a facility.
Jails may not release probation and parole violators held on a UDC hold
In the bill’s summary, the act “prohibits a county jail from releasing an individual booked on an allegation of violating probation or parole if the Department of Corrections has placed a hold on that individual under certain circumstances,” and clarifies sheriff and UDC roles in detaining alleged violators. It let UDC use a supervision model other than direct supervision if the executive director found direct supervision endangered inmates, staff, or security; 2026 S.B. 93 repealed that override. It also directed creation of a reentry division and allowed authorized off-duty personal use of state vehicles.
For corrections staff: Booking staff may not release a probation or parole violator who carries a UDC hold.
Restraint limits for pregnant inmates extended to the third trimester
Before, the law barred restraints during labor and childbirth absent risk findings, and barred shackles during labor, childbirth, or postpartum recovery only “while in a medical facility.” After, no restraints may be used in “the third trimester of pregnancy, labor, or childbirth” without an individualized determination of serious risk of harm to the inmate, infant, staff, or public, or a substantial escape risk. “Under no circumstances may shackles, leg restraints, or waist restraints be used on an inmate during the third trimester of pregnancy, labor, childbirth, or postpartum recovery,” with the medical-facility limit struck. Handcuffs no longer count as shackles. The staff member who authorizes restraints must record the grounds, type, and duration. The act added 48 hours with the infant if the physician directs, social worker access, and postpartum care, and created the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board.
For corrections staff: Before restraining an inmate in the third trimester, document the individualized risk finding; leg irons and belly chains are banned outright.
Suicide Deterrence Grant Program for county jails
Creates within the Department of Public Safety a Suicide Deterrence Grant Program. “The purpose of the program is to award grants to county jails for materials to construct and install suicide barriers,” meaning barriers on an upper level of a building that keep a person from falling. The section was enacted as 17-22-34; the county sheriff chapter was recodified from 17-22 to 17-72 in 2025, and the section’s current number was not confirmed.
For corrections staff: Jails with open upper tiers can apply for state grants for suicide barriers.
Enacted, not yet in force, pending, and bills that did not pass
No enacted corrections act awaiting its effective date was found: all 2026 General Session corrections bills reviewed took effect by July 1, 2026 (2026 passed bills). The 2027 General Session begins in January 2027. Failed corrections bills were not swept for this page.
Checked and unchanged
- Not counted: S.B. 323 (2026 G.S.), Criminal and Juvenile Justice Recodification, Laws of Utah 2026, ch. 291, effective July 1, 2026. Its long title creates a Department of Criminal Justice in Title 75E and it amends many corrections sections, including 17-72-408, for conforming purposes; its corrections-specific changes were not compared against the enrolled text.
- Not reviewed: 2023 H.B. 374 (County Sheriff Amendments, ch. 181); 2024 S.B. 212 (Substance Use Treatment in Correctional Facilities, ch. 266); 2024 H.B. 102 (POST Amendments, ch. 112); 2025 H.B. 39 (Correctional Health Amendments, ch. 112); 2025 H.B. 562 (county probation standards). 2024 H.B. 26, H.B. 248, and H.B. 376 were not reviewed because their enrolled PDFs did not yield readable text.
- Not verified: the length in hours of POST’s Basic Correctional Officer course and UDC’s pre-service academy, which the official pages checked do not state.
Bills in the legislature
Bills in the current session whose title concerns corrections officers, jails, probation and parole, and conditions of confinement, found automatically in LegiScan's copy of the legislature's records and refreshed daily (last on October 21, 2026). This list is not reviewed by an editor and is not a summary of the bills; each links to the legislature's own page, which controls. Bills that become law are added to the dated entries above once checked.
- Failed
HB0039: Prison and Jail Standards Amendments
Last action March 6, 2026: House/ filed in House file for bills not passed. 2026 General Session.
- Enacted
HB0122: Pregnant and Postpartum Inmate Amendments
Last action March 26, 2026: Governor Signed in Lieutenant Governor's office for filing. 2026 General Session.
- Failed
HB0226: Alternative Incarceration Program Amendments
Last action March 6, 2026: House/ filed in House file for bills not passed. 2026 General Session.
The law, section by section
Every section of the statutes and rules this page relies on that could be read from an official source, 141 in all, each linked to the official text. Headings are copied from the official tables of contents, checked October 21, 2026.
Utah Code, Title 53, Chapter 6: Peace Officer Standards and Training ActStatute · 38 sections
Official text current through Utah Legislature Utah Code, chapter versions marked "Current Version"; latest section version effective date among listed sections: 07/01/2026 (read 2026-10-21). Same list as the Officer Ledger library, re-read 2026-10-21. Utah Code Ann. tit. 53, ch. 6, official text
CHAPTER 53-6. PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING ACT: PART 1. PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING DIVISION ADMINISTRATION
- 53-6-101 Short title
- 53-6-102 Definitions
- 53-6-103 Peace Officer Standards and Training Division -- Creation -- Administration -- Duties
- 53-6-104 Appointment of director of division -- Qualifications -- Appointment of employees -- Term of office -- Compensation
- 53-6-105 Duties of director -- Powers -- Rulemaking
- 53-6-106 Creation of Peace Officer Standards and Training Council -- Purpose -- Membership -- Quorum -- Meetings -- Compensation
- 53-6-107 General duties of council
- 53-6-108 Donations, contributions, grants, gifts, bequests, devises, or endowments -- Authority to accept -- Disposition
- 53-6-109 Mandatory compliance with minimum use of force standards
CHAPTER 53-6. PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING ACT: PART 2. PEACE OFFICER TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION ACT
- 53-6-201 Short title
- 53-6-202 Basic training course -- Completion required -- Annual training -- Prohibition from exercising powers -- Reinstatement
- 53-6-203 Applicants for admission to training programs or for certification examination -- Requirements
- 53-6-204 Time of application for admission to training program
- 53-6-205 Completion of training course required -- Persons affected
- 53-6-206 Waiver of training course requirement
- 53-6-207 Municipalities may set higher minimum standards
- 53-6-208 Inactive certificates -- Lapse of certificate -- Reinstatement
- 53-6-209 Termination of employment -- Change of status form
- 53-6-210 Investigations and certification hearings -- Powers of division -- Violation
- 53-6-210.5 Duty to intervene or report officer misconduct
- 53-6-211 Suspension or revocation of certification -- Right to a hearing -- Grounds -- Notice to employer -- Reporting -- Judicial appeal
- 53-6-211.5 Voluntary relinquishment of peace officer certification
- 53-6-212 Responsibility for training -- Certification
- 53-6-213 Appropriations from compensation fund
CHAPTER 53-6. PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING ACT: PART 3. DISPATCHER TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION ACT
- 53-6-301 Title
- 53-6-302 Applicants for certification examination -- Requirements
- 53-6-303 Completion of certification examination required -- Persons affected
- 53-6-304 Waiver of training course requirement
- 53-6-305 Local governments -- Option -- Higher minimum standards
- 53-6-306 Inactive and lapsed certificates -- Reissuance or reinstatement -- Annual training requirement
- 53-6-307 Termination of employment -- Change of status form
- 53-6-308 Investigations and certification hearings -- Powers of division -- Violation
- 53-6-309 Suspension or revocation of certification -- Right to a hearing -- Grounds -- Notice to employer -- Reporting
- 53-6-310 Responsibility for training -- Certification
- 53-6-311 Voluntary relinquishment of dispatcher certification
CHAPTER 53-6. PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING ACT: PART 4. LAW ENFORCEMENT CANINE TEAM CERTIFICATION ACT
Utah Code, Section 53-13-104: Correctional officer (Chapter 13, Peace Officer Classifications)Statute · 1 section
Official text current through Utah Legislature Utah Code, chapter versions marked "Current Version"; latest section version effective date among listed sections: 07/01/2026 (read 2026-10-21). Only section 53-13-104, which the page cites, is listed from chapter 53-13. Utah Code Ann. 53-13-104, official text
CHAPTER 53-13. PEACE OFFICER CLASSIFICATIONS
- 53-13-104 Correctional officer
Utah Code, Title 64, Chapter 13: Department of Corrections - State PrisonStatute · 54 sections
Official text current through Utah Legislature Utah Code, chapter versions marked "Current Version"; latest section version effective date among listed sections: 07/01/2026 (read 2026-10-21). Utah Code Ann. tit. 64, ch. 13, official text
CHAPTER 64-13. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - STATE PRISON
- 64-13-1 Definitions
- 64-13-2 Creation of department
- 64-13-3 Executive director
- 64-13-6 Department duties
- 64-13-7 Individuals in custody
- 64-13-7.5 Persons in need of mental health services -- Contracts
- 64-13-8 Designation of employee powers
- 64-13-10 Department duties -- Rulemaking authority
- 64-13-10.4 Entry of an inmate -- Identification application requests
- 64-13-10.6 Transition and reentry of an inmate at termination of incarceration
- 64-13-10.7 Release of inmates who are not lawfully present in the United States -- Notification to and coordination with federal authorities
- 64-13-12 Assistance to sheriffs
- 64-13-13 Administrators
- 64-13-14 Secure correctional facilities
- 64-13-14.5 Limits of confinement place -- Release status -- Work release
- 64-13-14.7 Victim notification of offender's release
- 64-13-15 Property of offender -- Storage and disposal
- 64-13-16 Inmate employment
- 64-13-17 Visitors to correctional facilities -- Correspondence
- 64-13-18 Copy of sentence of incarceration
- 64-13-19 Labor at correctional facilities
- 64-13-20 Investigative services -- Presentence investigation reports
- 64-13-21.5 Powers of correctional officers and POST certified correctional enforcement or investigation officers
- 64-13-23 Offender's income, debt, and finances -- Department responsibilities concerning offender debt and financial information
- 64-13-24 Standards for staff training
- 64-13-25 Standards for programs
- 64-13-25.1 Medication assisted treatment plan
- 64-13-26 Private providers of services
- 64-13-27 Records -- Access
- 64-13-30 Expenses incurred by offenders -- Payment to department or county jail -- Medical care expenses and copayments
- 64-13-30.5 Payment by inmate for postsecondary educational tuition
- 64-13-31 Emergencies
- 64-13-32 Discipline of offenders -- Use of force
- 64-13-33 Fines for violation of department rules -- Debt collection
- 64-13-34 Safety of offenders
- 64-13-36 Testing of prisoners for AIDS and HIV infection -- Medical care -- Department authority
- 64-13-37 Department authorized to test offenders for communicable disease
- 64-13-38 Emergency release due to overcrowding
- 64-13-39 Standards for health care facilities
- 64-13-39.5 Definitions -- Health care for chronically or terminally ill offenders -- Notice to health care facility
- 64-13-39.6 Penalty
- 64-13-40 Worship for native American inmates
- 64-13-41 Limitations on offender access to sexually explicit material
- 64-13-42 Prison Telephone Surcharge Account -- Funding inmate and offender education and training programs
- 64-13-43 Use of state vehicles by department personnel
- 64-13-44 Posthumous organ donations by inmates
- 64-13-45 Department reporting requirements
- 64-13-46 Pregnant inmates
- 64-13-46.1 Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board -- Duties -- Rulemaking
- 64-13-47 Prison Sexual Assault Prevention Program
- 64-13-48 Educational and career-readiness programs
- 64-13-49 Inmate medical notification
- 64-13-50 Inmate program requirements -- Records -- Reporting
- 64-13-51 Drug abuse and trafficking unit
Utah Code, Title 64, Chapter 14: Adult Probation and ParoleStatute · 9 sections
Official text current through Utah Legislature Utah Code, chapter versions marked "Current Version"; latest section version effective date among listed sections: 07/01/2026 (read 2026-10-21). Utah Code Ann. tit. 64, ch. 14, official text
CHAPTER 64-14. ADULT PROBATION AND PAROLE: PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 64-14-101 Definitions
CHAPTER 64-14. ADULT PROBATION AND PAROLE: PART 2. DIVISION OF ADULT PROBATION AND PAROLE
- 64-14-201 Definitions
- 64-14-202 Creation of division -- Appointment of director
- 64-14-203 Duties of division
- 64-14-204 Supervision of sentenced offenders placed in community -- Rulemaking -- POST certified parole or probation officers and peace officers -- Duties -- Supervision fee -- Coordination with local mental health authority
- 64-14-205 Violation of parole or probation -- Detention -- Hearing
CHAPTER 64-14. ADULT PROBATION AND PAROLE: PART 3. ADULT PROBATION AND PAROLE EMPLOYMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Utah Code, Title 17, Chapter 72: County SheriffStatute · 39 sections
Official text current through Utah Legislature Utah Code, chapter versions marked "Current Version"; latest section version effective date among listed sections: 07/01/2026 (read 2026-10-21). Utah Code Ann. tit. 17, ch. 72, official text
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 17-72-101 Definitions
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 2. QUALIFICATIONS AND TERM
- 17-72-201 County sheriff qualifications -- Declaring office vacant -- Term
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 3. POWERS AND DUTIES
- 17-72-301 General duties
- 17-72-302 Primary law enforcement authority
- 17-72-303 Duty to respond to county legislative body, county executive
- 17-72-304 Fees
- 17-72-305 Certain liability
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 4. COUNTY JAILS
- 17-72-401 County jails -- Sheriff as keeper -- Contracting with private contractor
- 17-72-402 Sheriff's classification of jail facilities -- Maximum operating capacity of jail facilities -- Limitations on contracting -- Transfer or release of prisoners -- Limitation -- Records regarding release
- 17-72-403 Special guards for county jail
- 17-72-404 County jails authorized to hold federal prisoners
- 17-72-405 Commissary account disclosure requirements
- 17-72-406 Maintaining order in the county jail -- Imposing restitution
- 17-72-407 Notice to county jail facilities
- 17-72-408 County jail reporting requirements
- 17-72-409 Suicide Deterrence Grant application
- 17-72-410 Correctional facility telephone service
- 17-72-411 Assistance with identification records for certain county inmates
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR PRISONERS
- 17-72-501 Disclosure of prisoner medical clearance -- Care and health care of prisoners -- Funding of services -- Private contractor
- 17-72-502 Transfer of inmates to state prison
- 17-72-503 Sheriff's classification of prisoners -- Classification criteria -- Alternative incarceration programs -- Limitation
- 17-72-504 Service of process on prisoners -- Penalty
- 17-72-505 Citizenship determination of prisoners -- Notification to and coordination with federal authorities when releasing certain individuals
- 17-72-506 Prisoners under civil process
- 17-72-507 Escapes -- Sheriff's liability -- Defenses
- 17-72-508 Recovery housing pod authorized
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 6. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS ON PROBATION
- 17-72-601 Probation supervision -- Violation of probation -- Detention -- Hearing
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 7. PROCESS SERVICE AND DUTY TO THE COURT
- 17-72-701 Process on behalf of state -- Fees
- 17-72-702 Process justifies sheriff's action -- Process to be exhibited
- 17-72-703 Return of process -- Prima facie evidence
- 17-72-704 Failure or delay in making return on process -- Failure to levy execution -- Penalty
- 17-72-705 Only written directions to sheriff binding
- 17-72-706 Service of papers, other than process, on sheriff -- Powers of successor
- 17-72-707 Crier of court
- 17-72-708 Sheriff -- Assignment of court bailiffs -- Contract and costs
CHAPTER 17-72. COUNTY SHERIFF: PART 8. RESPONSIBILITY FOR ASSETS, RECORDS, AND INFORMATION
- 17-72-801 Neglect or refusal to pay over money -- Penalty
- 17-72-802 Prohibition on providing copy of booking photograph -- Statement required -- Victim access -- Criminal liability for false statement -- Remedy for failure to remove or delete
- 17-72-803 Notification requirements to state agencies concerning potential inmate debts
- 17-72-804 State identification numbers and biometric and other personal information
No rules are listed: the page's statute list cites no administrative rule. POST's rules (Utah Admin. Code R728) are in the Officer Ledger library.
USCLI's source monitor re-reads the 23 official sources cited on this page around the clock; 3 answered unchanged at their latest check. The oldest of those checks was on October 21, 2026.
Last updated October 21, 2026Source: United States Council for Law & InvestigationCite as: United States Council for Law & Investigation, “Utah corrections law: Corrections Ledger,” uscli.org/corrections-tracker/utah (last updated October 21, 2026). Text licensed CC BY 4.0.