Utah Code § 13-23-2

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13-23-2. 
Definitions.
 
 As used in this chapter:
 
 (1) "Business enterprise" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, association, joint venture, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity used in carrying on a business. 
 
 
 
 (2) "Consumer" means a purchaser of health spa services for consideration. 
 
 
 
 (3) "Division" means the Division of Consumer Protection. 
 
 
 
 (4) 
 
 (a) "Health spa" means a business enterprise that provides access to a facility: 
 
 (i) for a charge or a fee; and 
 
 
 
 (ii) for the development or preservation of physical fitness or well-being, through exercise, weight control, or athletics. 
 
 
 
 
 
 (b) "Health spa" does not include: 
 
 (i) a licensed physician who operates a facility at which the physician engages in the practice of medicine; 
 
 
 
 (ii) a hospital, intermediate care facility, or skilled nursing care facility; 
 
 
 
 (iii) a public or private school, college, or university; 
 
 
 
 (iv) the state or a political subdivision of the state; 
 
 
 
 (v) the United States or a political subdivision of the United States; 
 
 
 
 (vi) a person offering instruction if the person does not: 
 
 (A) utilize an employee or independent contractor; or 
 
 
 
 (B) grant a consumer the use of a facility containing exercise equipment; 
 
 
 
 
 
 (vii) a business enterprise, the primary operation of which is to teach self-defense or a martial art, including kickboxing, judo, or karate; 
 
 
 
 (viii) a business enterprise, the primary operation of which is to teach or allow an individual to develop a specific skill rather than develop or preserve physical fitness, including gymnastics, tennis, rock climbing, or a winter sport; 
 
 
 
 (ix) a business enterprise, the primary operation of which is to teach or allow an individual to practice yoga or Pilates; 
 
 
 
 (x) a private employer who owns and operates a facility exclusively for the benefit of the employer's employees, retirees, or family members, if the operation of the facility: 
 
 (A) is only incidental to the overall function and purpose of the employer's business; and 
 
 
 
 (B) is offered on a nonprofit basis; 
 
 
 
 
 
 (xi) an individual providing professional services within the scope of the individual's license with the Division of Professional Licensing; 
 
 
 
 (xii) a country club; 
 
 
 
 (xiii) a nonprofit religious, ethnic, or community organization; 
 
 
 
 (xiv) a residential weight reduction center; 
 
 
 
 (xv) a business enterprise that only offers virtual services; 
 
 
 
 (xvi) a business enterprise that only offers a credit for a service that a separate business enterprise offers; 
 
 
 
 (xvii) the owner of a lodging establishment, as defined in Section 29-2-102, if the owner only provides access to the lodging establishment's facility to: 
 
 (A) a guest, as defined in Section 29-2-102; or 
 
 
 
 (B) an operator or employee of the lodging establishment; 
 
 
 
 
 
 (xviii) an association, declarant, owner, lessor, or developer of a residential housing complex, planned community, or development, if at least 80% of the individuals accessing the facility reside in the housing complex, planned community, or development; or 
 
 
 
 (xix) a person offering a personal training service exclusively as an employee or independent contractor of a health spa. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (5) "Health spa facility" means a facility to which a business entity provides access: 
 
 (a) for a charge or a fee; and 
 
 
 
 (b) for the development or preservation of physical fitness or well-being, through exercise, weight control, or athletics. 
 
 
 
 
 
 (6) 
 
 (a) "Health spa service" means instruction, a service, a privilege, or a right that a health spa offers for sale. 
 
 
 
 (b) "Health spa service" includes a personal training service. 
 
 
 
 
 
 (7) "Personal training service" means the personalized instruction, training, supervision, or monitoring of an individual's physical fitness or well-being, through exercise, weight control, or athletics. 
 
 
 
 (8) "Primary location" means the health spa facility that a health spa designates in a contract for health spa services as the health spa facility the consumer in the contract will primarily use for health spa services.

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