Title 77 Chapter 32a Section 8

Utah Code of Criminal Procedure
Defense Costs
Section 8
Default in payment as contempt -- What constitutes contempt -- Imprisonment.

            

77-32a-8.   Default in payment as contempt -- What constitutes contempt -- Imprisonment.

            Unless the defendant shows that his default was not attributable to an intentional refusal to obey the order of the court or to a failure on his part to make a good faith effort to make the payment, the court may find that his default constitutes contempt and may order him committed until the costs or a specified part thereof, are paid.


Enacted by Chapter 15, 1980 General Session