Under Utah Code § 76-5-102.4(1), a military service member in uniform is defined as either:
- a member of any branch of the United States military who is wearing a uniform as authorized by the member’s branch of service; or
- a member of the National Guard serving as provided in Utah Code § 39-1-5 (Governor may call guard into active service) or Utah Code § 39-1-9 (National Guard subject to call by United States).
Peace officer means a law enforcement officer certified under Utah Code § 53-13-103, which defines a law enforcement officer as “a sworn and certified peace officer who is an employee of a law enforcement agency that is part of or administered by the state or any of its political subdivisions, and whose primary and principal duties consist of the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of criminal statutes or ordinances of this state or any of its political subdivisions.” The term law enforcement officer includes:
- any sheriff or deputy sheriff, chief of police, police officer, or marshal of any county, city, or town;
- the commissioner of public safety and any member of the Department of Public Safety certified as a peace officer;
- all persons specified in Utah Code § 23-20-1.5 (Powers of law enforcement) and Utah Code § 79-4-501 (Peace officer authority of park rangers);
- any police officer employed by any college or university;
- investigators for the Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division;
- investigators for the Department of Insurance, Fraud Division;
- special agents or investigators employed by the attorney general, district attorneys, and county attorneys;
- employees of the Department of Natural Resources designated as peace officers by law;
- school district police officers as designated by the board of education for the school district;
- the executive director of the Department of Corrections and any correctional enforcement or investigative officer designated by the executive director and approved by the commissioner of public safety and certified by the division;
- correctional enforcement, investigative, or adult probation and parole officers employed by the Department of Corrections serving on or before July 1, 1993;
- members of a law enforcement agency established by a private college or university provided that the college or university has been certified by the commissioner of public safety according to rules of the Department of Public Safety;
- airport police officers of any airport owned or operated by the state or any of its political subdivisions; and
- transit police officers designated under Utah Code § 17B-2a-822 (Multicounty districts relating to the Public Transit District Act).