{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-53g-7-904","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 53G-7-904","heading":"Internship programs -- Criminal background checks.","body":"(1)\n(a) A public or private school may enter into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer.\n(b) The public or private school described in Subsection (1)(a) shall ensure that the internship safety agreement requires a cooperating employer to:\n(i) ensure that an adult officer or employee of the cooperating employer is not intentionally alone with an intern for any significant amount of time during the intern's activities;\n(ii) maintain compliance with all applicable state and federal laws relating to workplace and student safety, privacy, and welfare; and\n(iii) provide a safe, educational, courteous, and welcoming professional environment that is free of harassment or discriminatory conduct that may result in a hostile, intimidating, abusive, offensive, or oppressive learning environment.\n(2)\n(a) If a public or private school has not entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer who will be given significant unsupervised access to a student in connection with the student's activities as an intern shall submit to criminal background checks under Section 53G-11-402.\n(b) If a public or private school has entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer are exempt from the criminal background check requirement described in Section 53G-11-402.","path":["Title 53G Public Education System -- Local Administration","Chapter 53G-7 Public School General Requirements","Part 53G-7-9 Internships"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title53G/Chapter7/53G-7-S904.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"eddcc63d72b2a7f198be9b3b4f27e7be7e7957fcf88bebedcdd1c70ad13dfbfa","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-53g-7-903","next":"us-ut/utah-code-53g-7-905"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}