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Section 308 - Human trafficking -- Human smuggling.

UT Code § 76-5-308 (2019) (N/A)
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(1) An actor commits human trafficking for forced labor or forced sexual exploitation if the actor recruits, harbors, transports, obtains, patronizes, or solicits a person through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, which may include: (a) threatening serious harm to, or physical restraint against, that person or a third person; (b) destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any passport, immigration document, or other government-issued identification document; (c) abusing or threatening abuse of the law or legal process against the person or a third person; (d) using a condition of a person being a debtor due to a pledge of the debtor's personal services or the personal services of a person under the control of the debtor as a security for debt where the reasonable value of the services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined; (e) using a condition of servitude by means of any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that if the person did not enter into or continue in a condition of servitude, that person or a third person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint, or would be threatened with abuse of legal process; or (f) creating or exploiting a relationship where the person is dependent on the actor.

(a) threatening serious harm to, or physical restraint against, that person or a third person;

(b) destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any passport, immigration document, or other government-issued identification document;

(c) abusing or threatening abuse of the law or legal process against the person or a third person;

(d) using a condition of a person being a debtor due to a pledge of the debtor's personal services or the personal services of a person under the control of the debtor as a security for debt where the reasonable value of the services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined;

(e) using a condition of servitude by means of any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that if the person did not enter into or continue in a condition of servitude, that person or a third person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint, or would be threatened with abuse of legal process; or

(f) creating or exploiting a relationship where the person is dependent on the actor.

(2) (a) Human trafficking for forced labor includes forced labor in industrial facilities, sweatshops, households, agricultural enterprises, and any other workplace. (b) Human trafficking for forced sexual exploitation includes all forms of forced commercial sexual activity, which may include the following conduct when the person acts under force, fraud, or coercion: (i) sexually explicit performance; (ii) prostitution; (iii) participation in the production of pornography; (iv) performance in strip clubs; and (v) exotic dancing or display.

(a) Human trafficking for forced labor includes forced labor in industrial facilities, sweatshops, households, agricultural enterprises, and any other workplace.

(b) Human trafficking for forced sexual exploitation includes all forms of forced commercial sexual activity, which may include the following conduct when the person acts under force, fraud, or coercion: (i) sexually explicit performance; (ii) prostitution; (iii) participation in the production of pornography; (iv) performance in strip clubs; and (v) exotic dancing or display.

(i) sexually explicit performance;

(ii) prostitution;

(iii) participation in the production of pornography;

(iv) performance in strip clubs; and

(v) exotic dancing or display.

(3) A person commits human smuggling by transporting or procuring the transportation for one or more persons for a commercial purpose, knowing or having reason to know that the person or persons transported or to be transported are not: (a) citizens of the United States; (b) permanent resident aliens; or (c) otherwise lawfully in this state or entitled to be in this state.

(a) citizens of the United States;

(b) permanent resident aliens; or

(c) otherwise lawfully in this state or entitled to be in this state.

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Section 308 - Human trafficking -- Human smuggling.