45-2-3 - Privileged publication or broadcast defined. - Utah Statutes

45-2-3. Privileged publication or broadcast defined.
A privileged publication or broadcast which shall not be considered as libelous orslanderous per se, is one made:
(1) In the proper discharge of an official duty.
(2) In any publication or broadcast of or any statement made in any legislative or judicialproceeding, or in any other official proceeding authorized by law.
(3) In a communication, without malice, to a person interested therein, by one who is alsointerested, or by one who stands in such relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonableground for supposing the motive for the communication innocent, or who is requested by theperson interested to give the information.
(4) By a fair and true report, without malice, of a judicial, legislative, or other publicofficial proceeding, or of anything said in the course thereof, or of a charge or complaint made byany person to a public official, upon which a warrant shall have been issued or an arrest made.
(5) By a fair and true report, without malice, of the proceedings of a public meeting, ifsuch meeting was lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and open to the public, or thepublication or broadcast of the matter complained of was for the public benefit.

Amended by Chapter 134, 1975 General Session