UTAH
TITLE:	COMPUTER CRIMES
DEFINITIONS:	¤ 76-6-702.  DEFINITIONS.

(1)  "Access" means to directly or indirectly use, 
attempt to use, instruct, communicate with, cause 
input to, cause output from, or otherwise make use 
of any resources of a computer, computer system, 
computer network, or any means of 
communication with any of them.  

(2)  "Computer" means any electronic device or 
communication facility with data processing 
ability.  

(3)  "Computer system" means a set of related, 
connected or unconnected, devices, software, or 
other related computer equipment.  

(4)  "Computer network" means the 
interconnection of communication or 
telecommunication lines between computers or 
computers and remote terminals.  

(5)  "Computer property" includes, but is not 
limited to, electronic impulses, electronically 
produced data, information, financial instruments, 
software, or programs, in either machine or human 
readable form, any other tangible or intangible 
item relating to a computer, computer system, 
computer network, and copies of any of them.  

(6)  "Services" include, but are not limited to, 
computer time, data manipulation, and storage 
functions.  

(7)  "Financial instrument" includes, but is not 
limited to, any check, draft, money order, 
certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of 
exchange, credit card, or marketable security.  

(8)  "Software" or "program" means a series of 
instructions or statements in a form acceptable to 
a computer, relating to the operations of the 
computer, or permitting the functioning of a 
computer system in a manner designed to provide 
results including, but not limited to, system control 
programs, application programs, or copies of any 
of them.
OFFENSES:	¤ 76-6-703.  COMPUTER CRIMES
ELEMENTS:	¤ 76-6-703.  COMPUTER CRIMES

(1)  A person who gains or attempts to gain access 
to and without authorization intentionally, and to 
the damage of another, alters, damages, destroys, 
discloses, or modifies any computer, computer 
network, computer property, computer system, 
program, or software is guilty of a felony of the 
third degree. 

(2)  A person who intentionally and without 
authorization uses a computer, computer network, 
computer property, or computer system to gain or 
attempt to gain access to any other computer, 
computer network, computer property, or 
computer system, program, or software, to the 
damage of another, and alters, damages, destroys, 
discloses, or modifies any of these, is guilty of a 
felony of the third degree.  

(3)  A person who uses or knowingly allows 
another person to use any computer, computer 
network, computer property, or computer system, 
program, or software to devise or execute any 
artifice or scheme to defraud or to obtain money, 
property, services, or other things of value by 
false pretenses, promises, or representations, is 
guilty of a felony of the second degree.  
representations, is guilty of a felony of the second 
degree.
PENALTIES:	¤ 76-6-703.  COMPUTER CRIMES AND PENALTIES

(4)  A person who intentionally, and without 
authorization, interferes with or interrupts 
computer services to another authorized to receive 
the services is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. 

(5)  A person who intentionally and without 
authorization damages or destroys, in whole or in 
part, any computer, computer network, computer 
property, or computer system is guilty of a class A 
misdemeanor unless the amount of damage 
exceeds $1,000, in which case the person is guilty 
of a felony of the third degree.
VENUE:	Not stated.
CIVIL REMEDY:	No reference to civil remedy. 
MISCELLANEOUS:	¤ 76-6-704.  ATTORNEY GENERAL OR COUNTY 
ATTORNEY TO PROSECUTEŃCONDUCT VIOLATING 
OTHER STATUTES

(1)  The attorney general or the county attorney 
shall prosecute suspected criminal violations of 
this part.

(2)  Prosecution under this part does not prevent 
any prosecutions under any other law.

¤ 76-6-705.  REPORTING VIOLATIONS 

Every person, except those to whom a statutory or 
common law privilege applies, who has reason to 
believe that the provisions of ¤ 76-6-703 are 
being violated or have been violated shall report 
the suspected violation to the attorney general or 
to the county attorney of the county in which part 
or all of the violations occurred.
CITATION:	Utah Code Ann. ¤ 76-6-701 thru 76-6-705.
SOURCE:	L. 1979, ch. 75; amended, L. 1986, ch. 123.