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H.B. 187

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AGRICULTURAL OPERATION INTERFERENCE

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2012 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: John G. Mathis

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Senate Sponsor: ____________

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             7      LONG TITLE
             8      General Description:
             9          This bill establishes the crime of agricultural operation interference.
             10      Highlighted Provisions:
             11          This bill:
             12          .    defines agricultural operation;
             13          .    provides that a person is guilty of agricultural operation interference if the person,
             14      without the consent of the owner of the operation, records an image of, or sound
             15      from, an agricultural operation while on the property where the agricultural
             16      operation is located; and
             17          .    establishes penalties.
             18      Money Appropriated in this Bill:
             19          None
             20      Other Special Clauses:
             21          None
             22      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             23      ENACTS:
             24          76-6-112, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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             26      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             27          Section 1. Section 76-6-112 is enacted to read:


             28          76-6-112. Agricultural operation interference -- Penalties.
             29          (1) As used in this section, "agricultural operation" means the commercial production
             30      of crops, orchards, aquaculture, livestock, poultry, livestock products, or poultry products, and
             31      the facilities, equipment, or property used to facilitate the commercial production.
             32          (2) A person is guilty of agricultural operation interference if the person, without
             33      consent from the owner of the operation, or the owner's agent, knowingly or intentionally
             34      records an image of, or sound from, the operation:
             35          (a) while the person is on the property where the agricultural operation is located; or
             36          (b) by leaving a recording device on the property where the agricultural operation is
             37      located.
             38          (3) A person who commits agricultural operation interference is guilty of:
             39          (a) for a first offense, a class A misdemeanor; or
             40          (b) for a subsequent offense, a felony of the third degree.




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