Salt Lake Child & Family Therapy Clinic, Inc. v. Frederick

The majority purports to analyze the statute at issue under the plain meaning rule of statutory construction. While the plain meaning rule is a basic rule of statutory construction, an equally basic rule of statutory construction is that a statute should be construed as a whole, with all of its provisions construed to be harmonious with each other and with the overall legislative objective of the statute. Utah State Road Comm’n v. Friberg, 687 P.2d 821, 831 (Utah 1984); Reagan Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Utah Dep’t of Transp., 589 P.2d 782, 783 (Utah 1979); see Amax Magnesium Corp. v. Utah…