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Utah Code § 77-7-9 (2026)

Weapons may be taken from prisoner

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Any person making an arrest may seize from the person arrested all weapons which the person arrested may have on or about his or her person.

Amended by Chapter 302, 2025 General Session

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1998–1998 · leading case: State v. Gallegos, 967 P.2d 973 (Utah Ct. App. 1998).
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State v. Gallegos, 967 P.2d 973 (Utah Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 12× “” Utah Code Ann. § 77-7-9 (1995). Defendant argues that the “on or about” language in the statute restricts the area *978 which a person may search incident to an arrest to only that area — approximately ten inches — definitively within the arrestee’s reach at the time of the…”
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