Utah § 10-3-1103 - Sickness, disability, and death benefits.

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§ 10-3-1103. Sickness, disability, and death benefits.

Effective 9/1/2025
10-3-1103. Sickness, disability, and death benefits.

(1)	As used in this section, "miscarriage" means the spontaneous or accidental loss of a fetus, regardless of the gestational age or the duration of the pregnancy.

(2)

The governing body of each municipality may maintain as to all elective or appointive officers and employees, including heads of departments, a system for the payment of health, dental, hospital, medical, disability and death benefits to be financed and administered in a manner and payable upon the terms and conditions as the governing body of the municipality may by ordinance or resolution prescribe.

(3)	The governing bodies of the municipalities may create and administer personnel benefit programs separately or jointly with other municipalities or other political subdivisions of the State of Utah or associations thereof.

(4)

The governing body of each municipality shall, by ordinance or resolution, provide for at least three work days of paid bereavement leave for an employee:

(a)	following the end of the employee's pregnancy by way of miscarriage or stillbirth; or

(b)

following the end of another individual's pregnancy by way of a miscarriage or stillbirth, if:

(i)	the employee is the individual's spouse or partner;

(ii)

(A)	the employee is the individual's former spouse or partner; and

(B)	the employee would have been a biological parent of a child born as a result of the pregnancy;

(iii)

the employee provides documentation to show that the individual intended for the employee to be an adoptive parent, as that term is defined in Section 81-13-101, of a child born as a result of the pregnancy; or

(iv)	under a valid gestational agreement in accordance with Title 81, Chapter 5, Part 8, Gestational Agreement, the employee would have been a parent of a child born as a result of the pregnancy.

Amended by Chapter 426, 2025 General Session

Source: official Utah text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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