20A-11-1102 - Paid advertisements permitted. - Utah Statutes

20A-11-1102. Paid advertisements permitted.
(1) Except as provided in Subsection (3), an owner, publisher, editor, reporter, agent, oremployee of any newspaper or other periodical may not, directly or indirectly, solicit, receive, oraccept any payment, promise, or compensation for influencing or attempting to influence anyvoting at any election or primary by means of any printed matter in that newspaper or periodicalor through any means whatsoever.
(2) Except as provided in Subsection (3), a person may not pay, promise to pay, or in anymanner compensate any owner, publisher, editor, reporter, agent, or employee of a newspaper orother periodical, directly or indirectly, for influencing or attempting to influence any voting at anyelection or primary by means of any printed matter in that newspaper or periodical or throughany means whatsoever.
(3) The prohibitions contained in this section do not apply if:
(a) the matter is inserted in the newspaper or periodical as a paid advertisement;
(b) the matter is designated as a "paid advertisement" in the copy of the advertisement;and
(c) the compensation paid to the newspaper or periodical for inserting the paidadvertisement is not more than the regular rate charged by the newspaper or periodical for thatservice.

Enacted by Chapter 1, 1995 General Session