{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-76-7-102","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 76-7-102","heading":"Incest -- Definitions -- Penalty.","body":"(1) As used in this section:\n(a) \"Provider\" means a person who provides or makes available his seminal fluid or her human egg.\n(b) \"Related person\" means a person related to the provider or actor as an ancestor, descendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, and includes:\n(i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood, regardless of whether the relationship is legally recognized;\n(ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and\n(iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists.\n(2)\n(a) An actor is guilty of incest when, under circumstances not amounting to rape, rape of a child, or aggravated sexual assault, the actor knowingly and intentionally:\n(i) engages in conduct under Subsection (2)(b)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv); or\n(ii) provides a human egg or seminal fluid under Subsection (2)(b)(v).\n(b) Conduct referred to under Subsection (2)(a) is:\n(i) sexual intercourse between the actor and a person the actor knows has kinship to the actor as a related person;\n(ii) the insertion or placement of the provider's seminal fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse;\n(iii) providing or making available his seminal fluid for the purpose of insertion or placement of the fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse;\n(iv) a woman 18 years of age or older who:\n(A) knowingly allows the insertion of the seminal fluid of a provider into her vagina, cervix, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse; and\n(B) knows that the seminal fluid is that of a person with whom she has kinship as a related person; or\n(v) providing the actor's sperm or human egg that is used to conduct in vitro fertilization, or any other means of fertilization, with the human egg or sperm of a person who is a related person.\n(c) This Subsection (2) does not prohibit providing a fertilized human egg if the provider of the fertilizing sperm is not a related person regarding the person providing the egg.\n(3) Incest is a third degree felony.\n(4) A provider under this section is not a donor under Section 81-5-702.","path":["Title 76 Criminal Offenses","Chapter 76-7 Offenses Against the Family","Part 76-7-1 Marital Violations"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter7/76-7-S102.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:34Z","sha256":"c6ee3c326a6ab9cfee09359125c0a0d634c66a3a7648e0c56937aa9e0127c3c0","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-76-7-101.5","next":"us-ut/utah-code-76-7-105"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}