Selected Utah Statutes
Sex Crimes
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76-9-301.8. Bestiality -- Definitions -- Penalty.
(1) A person commits the crime of bestiality if the actor engages in any sexual activity with
an animal with the intent of sexual gratification of the actor.
(2) For purposes of this section only:
(a) "Animal" means any live, nonhuman vertebrate creature, including fowl.
(b) "Sexual activity" means physical sexual contact:
(i) between the actor and the animal involving the genitals of the actor and the genitals of
the animal;
(ii) the genitals of the actor or the animal and the mouth or anus of the actor or the animal;
or
(iii) through the actor's use of an object in contact with the genitals or anus of the animal.
(3) A crime of bestiality is a class B misdemeanor.
76-9-702. Lewdness -- Sexual battery -- Public urination.
(1) A person is guilty of lewdness if the person under circumstances not amounting to rape,
object rape, forcible sodomy, forcible sexual abuse, aggravated sexual assault, or an attempt to
commit any of these offenses, performs any of the following acts in a public place or under
circumstances which the person should know will likely cause affront or alarm to, on, or in the
presence of another who is 14 years of age or older:
(a) an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy;
(b) exposes his or her genitals, the female breast below the top of the areola, the buttocks,
the anus, or the pubic area;
(c) masturbates; or
(d) any other act of lewdness.
(2) Lewdness is a class B misdemeanor.
(3) A person is guilty of sexual battery if the person under circumstances not amounting to
rape, rape of a child, object rape, object rape of a child, forcible sodomy, sodomy upon a child,
forcible sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, aggravated
sexual assault, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses intentionally touches, whether or
not through clothing, the anus, buttocks, or any part of the genitals of another person, or the
breast of a female, and the actor's conduct is under circumstances the actor knows or should
know will likely cause affront or alarm to the person touched.
(4) Sexual battery is a class A misdemeanor.
