Utah Code
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41-12a-510 Report, findings, action, and security as evidence.
Neither the report required under Section 41-12a-502, nor the department's findings, action,
or requirement of post-accident security under this chapter may be referred to in any way, nor be
any evidence of negligence or due care of either party, at the trial of any action at law to recover
damages.
Enacted by Chapter 242, 1985 General Session
41-12a-511 Failure to satisfy judgment.
(1) Whenever any person fails within 60 days to satisfy any judgment, it is the duty of the clerk of
the court or of the judge of a court which has no clerk in which any such judgment is rendered
in Utah, upon the written request of the judgment creditor or his attorney, to forward to the
department immediately after the expiration of the 60 days, a certified copy of the judgment.
(2) The department, upon the receipt of a certified copy of a judgment, shall suspend the license
and registration and any nonresident's operating privilege of any person against whom the
judgment was rendered, except as provided in Subsection (5) and Section 41-12a-513.
(3) Except as provided under Subsection (5) and Section 41-12a-513, a license, registration, and
nonresident's operating privilege suspended under Subsection (2) remains suspended and
may not be renewed nor may that license or registration be thereafter issued in the name of the
same person, including a person not previously licensed, unless every such judgment is stayed
or satisfied in full within the meaning of Section 41-12a-512, and until the person files proof of
owner's or operator's security.
(4) If the judgment debtor named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to the department
is a nonresident, the department shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment to the official
in charge of the issuance of licenses and registration certificates of the state of which the
judgment debtor is a resident.
(5) If the judgment creditor consents in writing, in a form the department prescribes, that the
judgment debtor be allowed license and registration or nonresident's operating privilege, they
may be allowed by the department for six months from the date of the consent and thereafter
until that consent is revoked in writing, notwithstanding the default in the payment of the
judgment or of any installments thereof prescribed in Section 41-12a-513, if the judgment
debtor furnishes proof of owner's security.
Enacted by Chapter 242, 1985 General Session
41-12a-512 When judgments deemed satisfied.
Judgments arising from a single accident which in the aggregate are in excess of the minimum
single limit under Subsection 31A-22-304(2) shall be considered satisfied in full, for the purpose
of this chapter only, when payments equal to that limit have been credited to the judgment.
Payments made by the judgment debtor prior to the judgment, but on the claim which arose out of
the bodily injury, death, or property damage caused by a motor vehicle accident shall be credited in
reduction of the amount necessary for the judgment to be considered satisfied in full for purposes
of this chapter. If multiple judgments against a depositor of post-accident security arise out of
the same accident, and in the aggregate the several claims exceed the amount deposited, then
the deposit shall be distributed pro rata, based upon each judgment creditor's portion of the total
judgments arising from the accident. Any punitive or exemplary damages awarded a judgment
creditor may not be considered in determining the claimant's pro rata share.