Utah Code § 10-2a-204.5 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2a / § 10-2a-204.5
§ 10-2a-204.5. Notice to owner of property -- Exclusion or inclusion of property from or in proposed municipality.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Owner" means a person having an interest in real property, including an affiliate, subsidiary, or parent company. (b) "Specified landowner" means a record owner of real property: (i) who owns more than: (A) 1% of the assessed fair market value, as of January 1 of the current year, of all property within the boundaries of a proposed incorporation; or (B) 10% of the total private land area within the boundaries of a proposed incorporation; or (ii) located in a mining protection area as defined in Section 17-41-101. (2) Within 30 calendar days after the day of the first public hearing described in Section 10-2a-204.3: (a) a specified landowner may request that the county clerk exclude all or part of the land owned by the specified landowner from the area proposed for incorporation by filing a request for exclusion with the county clerk that describes the land for which the specified landowner requests exclusion; or (b) any owner of land located within the county where the area proposed for incorporation is located may file a request that all or part of that land be included in the area proposed for incorporation by filing a request for inclusion with the county clerk that describes the land that the landowner desires to include. (3) The county clerk shall exclude the land identified by a specified landowner under Subsection (2)(a) from the proposed incorporation boundaries unless the county clerk finds by clear and convincing evidence that: (a) except for a proposed incorporation of a community council area, the exclusion will leave an unincorporated island within the proposed municipality; and (b) the land receives from the county a majority of currently provided municipal services. (4) The county clerk shall include land identified by a landowner under Subsection (2)(b) in the area proposed for incorporation unless the county clerk finds by clear and convincing evidence that: (a) except for a proposed incorporation of a community council area, the land will not be contiguous with the area of the proposed municipality, taking into account other requests for inclusion or requests for exclusion received before the deadline described in Subsection (2); or (b) the inclusion will cause the area proposed for incorporation to violate a requirement for incorporation described in this part. (5) The county clerk shall: (a) no earlier than 30 days after, but no later than 44 days after, the day of the first public hearing described in Section 10-2a-204.3, make a determination on all timely requests for exclusion or inclusion; (b) forward to the lieutenant governor for review: (i) all timely requests for exclusion or inclusion; (ii) the county clerk's determination on each of the requests described in Subsection (5)(b)(i); and (iii) the reasons, including the supporting data, for each determination described in Subsection (5)(b)(ii); and (c) within five days after the day on which the lieutenant governor makes a final determination on whether to include or exclude land under Subsection (7), the county clerk shall mail or transmit written notice of whether the land is included or excluded from the proposed incorporation boundaries to: (i) for a request for exclusion, the specified landowner that requested the exclusion; (ii) for a request for inclusion, the owner of land that requested the inclusion; and (iii) the contact sponsor. (6) For a request for exclusion or inclusion that is denied, the county clerk shall include, in the written notice described in Subsection (5)(c), a detailed explanation of the reason for the denial and the facts supporting the denial. (7) Within 14 days after the day on which the lieutenant governor receives the information described in Subsection (5)(b) the lieutenant governor shall: (a) review each determination; (b) uphold or reverse each determination; and (c) forward to the county clerk: (i) the lieutenant governor's final determinations; and (ii) if the lieutenant governor reverses a determination of the county clerk, the reason for the reversal and the supporting facts.
Utah Code § 10-3-1108 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1108
§ 10-3-1108. Political activity of municipal officer or employee.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this section, "hours of employment" means occurring at a time when an officer or employee is acting within the course and scope of employment, but excludes a lunch break afforded to the officer or employee. (2) Except as otherwise provided by federal law: (a) the partisan political activity, political opinion, or political affiliation of an applicant for a position with a municipality may not provide a basis for denying employment to the applicant; (b) an officer or employee's partisan political activity, political opinion, or political affiliation may not provide the basis for the officer or employee's employment, promotion, disciplinary action, demotion, or dismissal; (c) a municipal officer or employee may not engage in political campaigning or solicit political contributions during hours of employment; (d) a municipal officer or employee may not use municipal equipment while engaged in political activity; (e) a municipal officer or employee may not directly or indirectly coerce, command, or advise another municipal officer or employee to pay, lend, or contribute part of the officer or employee's salary or compensation, or anything else of value to a political party, committee, organization, agency, or person for political purposes; and (f) a municipal officer or employee may not attempt to make another officer or employee's personnel status dependent on the officer or employee's support or lack of support of a political party, affiliation, opinion, committee, organization, agency, or person engaged in political activity. (3) A municipal employee who has filed a declaration of candidacy may: (a) be given a leave of absence for the period between the primary election and the general election; and (b) use any vacation or other leave available to engage in campaign activities. (4) If a municipal officer or employee is elected to a public office, the employee may: (a) be given a leave of absence without pay for the time during which the employee receives compensation for service in the public office; and (b) use any vacation or other leave available to serve in the public office. (5) Neither the filing of a declaration of candidacy nor a leave of absence under this section may be used as the basis for an adverse employment action, including discipline and termination, against the employee. (6) Nothing in this section may be construed to: (a) prohibit a municipal officer or employee's voluntary contribution to a party or candidate of the officer or employee's choice; or (b) permit a municipal officer or employee's partisan political activity that is prohibited under federal law.
Utah Code § 10-3-1301 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1301
§ 10-3-1301. Short title.
Status: in_force

This part is known as the "Municipal Officers' and Employees' Ethics Act."
Utah Code § 10-11-2 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / § 10-11-2
§ 10-11-2. Inspection of property -- Notice -- Penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) If a municipality adopts an ordinance describing the duties of a municipal inspector appointed under Section 10-11-1, the ordinance: (i) may, subject to Subsection (1)(b), direct the inspector to examine and investigate real property for: (A) the growth and spread of injurious and noxious weeds; (B) garbage and refuse; (C) a public nuisance; (D) an illegal object or structure; or (E) hazardous materials; and (ii) if an inspector conducts an examination and investigation under Subsection (1)(a), shall direct the inspector to deliver written notice of the examination and investigation in accordance with Subsection (2). (b) An ordinance described in Subsection (1)(a) may not direct an inspector or authorize a municipality to abate conditions solely associated with the interior of a structure, unless required: (i) for the demolition and removal of the structure; or (ii) to eliminate or remove hazardous materials within a structure that has been closed to occupancy or entry by a local health department or fire department. (c) An ordinance described in Subsection (1)(a) may direct an inspector or authorize a municipality to issue an order limiting or restricting access to a structure and the real property appurtenant to the structure while the municipal inspector or a certified decontamination specialist destroys, removes, or abates hazardous materials within the structure. (d) If a municipality has adopted an ordinance establishing an administrative proceeding process for the violation of a municipal ordinance in accordance with the requirements of Section 10-3-703.7, the municipality may adopt an ordinance imposing the following for a violation of an order issued under Subsection (1)(c): (i) a civil penalty in accordance with Subsection 10-3-703(2); or (ii) in accordance with Subsection 10-3-703(1), a criminal penalty, including by a fine not to exceed the maximum class B misdemeanor fine under Section 76-3-301, by a term of imprisonment up to six months, or by both the fine and term of imprisonment. (e) An ordinance adopted in accordance with Subsection (1)(d) shall provide 180 days after the day on which the written notice from an inspector is delivered in person or the date the notice is post-marked for the recipient of the notice to: (i) abate the hazardous materials; or (ii) appeal the notice and begin the administrative proceeding process. (2) (a) (i) The municipal inspector shall serve written notice to a property owner of record according to the records of the county recorder in accordance with Subsection (2)(b). (ii) The municipal inspector may serve written notice in accordance with Subsection (2)(b) to a non-owner occupant of the property or another person responsible for the property who is not the owner of record, including a manager or agent of the owner, if: (A) the property owner is not an occupant of the property; and (B) the municipality in which the property is located has adopted an ordinance imposing a duty to maintain the property on an occupant who is not the property owner of record or a person other than the property owner of record who is responsible for the property. (b) The municipal inspector may serve the written notice: (i) in person or by mail to the property owner of record as described in Subsection (2)(a)(i), if mailed to the last-known address of the owner according to the records of the county recorder; or (ii) in person or by mail to a non-owner occupant or another person responsible for the property who is not the owner of record as described in Subsection (2)(a)(ii), if mailed to the property address. (c) In the written notice described in Subsection (2)(a), the municipal inspector shall: (i) identify the property owner of record according to the records of the county recorder; (ii) describe the property and the nature and results of the examination and investigation conducted in accordance with Subsection (1)(a); (iii) identify the relevant regulation or ordinance at issue and describe the violation of the relevant regulation or ordinance; (iv) describe each order, fine, or penalty that may be imposed; (v) for a structure or any real property closed to occupancy or entry by a local health department because of hazardous materials, explain the right of a property owner, occupant, or, if applicable, another person responsible for the property to abate the hazardous materials or appeal the notice within 180 days after the day on which notice is delivered in person or the date the notice is post-marked; and (vi) require the property owner, occupant, or, if applicable, another person responsible for the property to: (A) eradicate or destroy and remove any identified item examined and investigated under Subsection (1)(a); and (B) comply with Subsection (2)(c)(vi)(A) in a time period designated by the municipal inspector but no less than 10 days after the day on which notice is delivered in person or post-marked, or for a notice related to hazardous materials, no less than 180 days after the day on which notice is delivered in person or post-marked. (d) For a notice of injurious and noxious weeds described in Subsection (2)(a), the municipal inspector is not required to make more than one notice for each annual season of weed growth for weeds growing on a property. (e) The municipal inspector shall serve the notice required under Subsection (2)(a)(i) under penalty of perjury. (f) For a structure or any real property closed to occupancy or entry by a local health department because of hazardous materials, unless an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction states otherwise, a municipality may not impose a fine or penalty on a property owner, occupant, or another person responsible for the structure or real property, and may not authorize a municipal inspector or a certified decontamination specialist to begin abatement of the hazardous materials, until: (i) the appeal and administrative proceeding process is completed; or (ii) the property owner, occupant, or another person responsible for the property has missed the deadline for filing the appeal.
Utah Code § 10-3-1012 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1012
§ 10-3-1012. Suspension or discharge by department head -- Appeal to commission -- Hearing and decision.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) Subject to Subsection (1)(b), all persons in the classified civil service may be suspended as provided in Section 10-3-912, or removed from office or employment by the head of the department for misconduct, incompetency, failure to perform duties, or failure to observe properly the rules of the department, but subject to appeal by the suspended or discharged person to the civil service commission. (b) Before a law enforcement officer, as that term is defined in Section 53-13-103, who is in the classified civil service may be suspended for more than two days, demoted, or removed from employment under Subsection (1)(a), the law enforcement officer's employing agency shall, at a minimum: (i) notify the law enforcement officer of the allegations of wrongdoing that the employing agency believes may support a disciplinary action of suspension for more than two days, demotion, or removal; (ii) give the law enforcement officer no less than two business days after the day on which the notification described in Subsection (1)(b)(i) is provided to submit a written reply to the agency head or the agency head's designated representative; (iii) have the agency head, or the agency head's designated representative, consider any written reply submitted by the law enforcement officer; and (iv) give the law enforcement officer an opportunity to be heard by the agency head or the agency head's designated representative. (c) The provisions of Subsection (1)(b) do not limit or alter the rights under this part of: (i) an employee in the classified civil service who is not a law enforcement officer; or (ii) a law enforcement officer in a municipality that provides, by adopted policy, procedures that are more protective for the law enforcement officer than the procedures described in Subsection (1)(b). (2) Any person suspended or discharged under Subsection (1) may, within five days from the issuance by the head of the department of the order of suspension or discharge, appeal to the civil service commission, which shall fully hear and determine the matter. (3) The suspended or discharged person shall be entitled to appear in person and to have counsel and a public hearing. (4) The finding and decision of the civil service commission upon the hearing shall be certified to the head of the department from whose order the appeal is taken, and shall be final and immediately enforced by the head.
Utah Code § 10-2a-209 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2a / § 10-2a-209
§ 10-2a-209. Processing of petition by county clerk -- Certification or rejection -- Petition modification.
Status: in_force

(1) Within 45 days after the day on which a petition for incorporation is filed under Section 10-2a-208, the county clerk shall: (a) (i) use the procedures described in Section 20A-1-1002 todetermine whether a signer is a registered voter; and (ii) determine whether the petition for incorporation complies with Section 10-2a-208; and (b) (i) if the county clerk determines that the petition for incorporation complies with Section 10-2a-208, certify the petition for incorporation and notify in writing the contact sponsor of the certification; or (ii) if the county clerk determines that the petition for incorporation fails to comply with Section 10-2a-208, reject the petition for incorporation and notify the contact sponsor in writing of the rejection and the reasons for the rejection. (2) (a) If the county clerk rejects a petition for incorporation under Subsection (1)(b)(ii), the sponsors of the petition for incorporation may correct the deficiencies for which the petition for incorporation was rejected and refile the petition for incorporation with the county clerk. (b) Notwithstanding the deadline described in Subsection 10-2a-208(1), the sponsors of the petition for incorporation may file a modified petition for incorporation under Subsection (2)(a) no later than 30 days after the day on which the county clerk notifies the contact sponsor of rejection under Subsection (1)(b)(ii). (c) A valid signature on a petition for incorporation described in Section 10-2a-208 may be used toward fulfilling the signature requirement described in Subsection 10-2a-208(1) for a petition for incorporation that is modified under Subsection (2)(a). (3) (a) Within 20 days after the day on which the county clerk receives a modified petition for incorporation under Subsection (2)(a), the county clerk shall review the modified petition for incorporation in accordance with Subsection (1). (b) The sponsors of a petition for incorporation may not modify the petition for incorporation more than once.
Utah Code § 10-3-1104 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1104
§ 10-3-1104. Library personnel -- Monthly wage deductions and matching sums -- Time of inclusion.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) The librarians, assistants and employees of any public library may, at the discretion of the board of directors of the library, be included within and participate in the pension, retirement, sickness, disability and death benefit system established under Section 10-3-1103. (b) In the event the librarian, assistants and employees of the municipality are included within and participate in the system, there shall be deducted from the monthly wage or salary of the librarian, assistants and employees and paid into the system, a percentage of their wage or salary equal to the percentage of the monthly wage or salary of other employees of the municipality which is paid into the system. (c) Also there shall be paid monthly into the system from the funds of the library a further sum equal to the total amount deducted monthly from the wage or salary of the librarian, assistants and employees and paid into the retirement system. (2) (a) Where the election by the board of directors of any library for inclusion of its librarian, assistants and employees within the system of any municipality is subsequent to the establishment of the system, the inclusion may begin as of the date of the establishment of the system or as of the date of the election as shall be determined by the board of directors. (b) If inclusion is as of the date of the establishment of the system, there shall be paid into the system in addition to the subsequent monthly wage deductions and matching sums, a sum equal to the aggregate of monthly payroll deductions and matching sums that would have accrued during the period beginning with the establishment of the system and ending with the election had the librarian, assistants and employees been included within the system from its establishment.
Utah Code § 10-20-816 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-816
§ 10-20-816. Notice of subdivision located near vested critical infrastructure materials operation.
Status: in_force

For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet of the boundary of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations created under Part 7, Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations, the owner of the development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:"Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials OperationsThis property is located in the vicinity of an established vested critical infrastructure materials operations in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded the highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in the future be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials protection area. The use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or inconvenience that may result from such normal critical infrastructure materials operations."
Utah Code § 10-8-55 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-55
§ 10-8-55. Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

They may, except as otherwise provided by law, provide for the organization and support of a fire department, procure fire engines, hooks, ladders, buckets, hose and other apparatus, organize fire engine and hook and ladder companies, prescribe duties, rules and regulations for the government thereof, with such penalty as they may deem proper, and make all necessary appropriations therefor.
Utah Code § 10-3b-602 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3b / § 10-3b-602
§ 10-3b-602. Voter approval required for a change in the form of government.
Status: in_force

A municipality may not change its form of government under this part unless voters of the municipality approve the change at an election held for that purpose.
Utah Code § 10-2-905 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-905
§ 10-2-905. Municipal boundary adjustment effect on local districts and special service districts.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 17B-1-416 and Subsection 17B-1-502(2), the adjustment of a boundary shared by municipalities does not affect the boundaries of: (1) a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities -- Special Districts; or (2) a special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act.
Utah Code § 10-8-17 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-17
§ 10-8-17. City may act as distributing agent -- Collection of operating costs from users.
Status: in_force

(1) When the governing body of a city is acting as distributing agent of water, not the property of the corporation, outside of or within its corporate limits, the governing body may annually, before the commencement of the irrigation season, determine and fix the sum considered necessary to meet the expense of the current year for the purpose of: (a) controlling, regulating, and distributing the water; and (b) constructing and keeping in repair the necessary means for diverting, conveying, and distributing the water. (2) (a) The governing body may collect the sum described in Subsection (1) from the persons entitled to the use of the water, pro rata according to acreage, whether the acreage is situate within or without the corporate boundary of the city. (b) The governing body may not appropriate or use the derived funds for any other purpose than the purposes described in Subsection (1). (c) In the event that the governing body collects a greater sum in any one year than is necessary under Subsection (1), the governing body shall carry the excess to the account of the year next following and apply the excess to the purposes described in Subsection (1). (d) The governing body shall enact an ordinance fixing and providing for the collection of the sum described in Subsection (1). (3) (a) Until the governing body collects the sum described in Subsection (1), the sum is a political subdivision lien, as that term is defined in Section 11-60-102, on the subject water rights and the land irrigated by the water, in accordance with Title 11, Chapter 60, Political Subdivision Lien Authority. (b) If the lien amount is not paid in full in a given year: (i) by September 15, the governing body shall certify any unpaid amount to the treasurer of the county in which the liened property is located; and (ii) the county treasurer shall include the certified amount on the property tax notice required by Section 59-2-1317 for that year.
Utah Code § 10-20-202 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-202
§ 10-20-202. Applicant notice -- Waiver of requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) For each land use application, the municipality shall: (a) notify the applicant of the date, time, and place of each public hearing and public meeting to consider the application; (b) provide to each applicant a copy of each staff report regarding the applicant or the pending application at least three business days before the public hearing or public meeting; and (c) notify the applicant of any final action on a pending application. (2) If a municipality fails to comply with the requirements of Subsection (1)(a) or (b) or both, an applicant may waive the failure so that the application may stay on the public hearing or public meeting agenda and be considered as if the requirements had been met.
Utah Code § 10-20-905 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-905
§ 10-20-905. Review for application completeness -- Substantive application review -- Reasonable diligence required for determination of whether improvements or warranty work meets standards -- Money damages claim prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) Each municipality shall, in a timely manner, determine whether a land use application is complete for the purposes of subsequent, substantive land use authority review. (b) After a reasonable period of time to allow the municipality diligently to evaluate whether all objective ordinance-based application criteria have been met, if application fees have been paid, the applicant may in writing request that the municipality provide a written determination either that the application is: (i) complete for the purposes of allowing subsequent, substantive land use authority review; or (ii) deficient with respect to a specific, objective, ordinance-based application requirement. (c) Within 30 days of receipt of an applicant's request under this section, the municipality shall either: (i) mail a written notice to the applicant advising that the application is deficient with respect to a specified, objective, ordinance-based criterion, and stating that the application shall be supplemented by specific additional information identified in the notice; or (ii) accept the application as complete for the purposes of further substantive processing by the land use authority. (d) If the notice required by Subsection (1)(c)(i) is not timely mailed, the application shall be considered complete, for purposes of further substantive land use authority review. (e) (i) The applicant may raise and resolve in a single appeal any determination made under this Subsection (1) to the appeal authority, including an allegation that a reasonable period of time has elapsed under Subsection (1)(b). (ii) The appeal authority shall issue a written decision for any appeal requested under this Subsection (1)(e). (f) (i) The applicant may appeal to district court the decision of the appeal authority made under Subsection (1)(e). (ii) Each appeal under Subsection (1)(f)(i) shall be made within 30 days of the date of the written decision. (2) (a) Each land use authority shall substantively review a complete application and an application considered complete under Subsection (1)(d), and shall approve or deny each application with reasonable diligence. (b) After a reasonable period of time to allow the land use authority to consider an application, the applicant may in writing request that the land use authority take final action within 45 days from date of service of the written request. (c) Within 45 days from the date of service of the written request described in Subsection (2)(b): (i) except as provided in Subsection (2)(c)(ii), the land use authority shall take final action, approving or denying the application; and (ii) if a landowner petitions for a land use regulation, a legislative body shall take final action by approving or denying the petition. (d) If the land use authority denies an application processed under the mandates of Subsection (2)(b), or if the applicant has requested a written decision in the application, the land use authority shall include its reasons for denial in writing, on the record, which may include the official minutes of the meeting in which the decision was rendered. (e) If the land use authority fails to comply with Subsection (2)(c), the applicant may appeal this failure to district court within 30 days of the date on which the land use authority is required to take final action under Subsection (2)(c). (3) (a) As used in this Subsection (3), an "infrastructure improvement category" includes: (i) a culinary water system; (ii) a sanitary sewer system; (iii) a storm water system; (iv) a transportation system; (v) a secondary and irrigation water system; (vi) public landscaping; or (vii) public parks, trails, or open space. (b) With reasonable diligence, each land use authority shall determine whether the installation of required subdivision improvements or the performance of warranty work meets the municipality's adopted standards. (c) (i) An applicant may in writing request the land use authority to accept or reject the applicant's installation of required subdivision improvements or performance of warranty work. (ii) The land use authority shall accept or reject subdivision improvements within 15 days after receiving an applicant's written request under Subsection (3)(c)(i), or as soon as practicable after that 15-day period if inspection of the subdivision improvements is impeded by winter weather conditions. (iii) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(c)(iv), (3)(d), or (3)(e), the land use authority shall accept or reject the performance of warranty work within: (A) for a city of a first, second, third, or fourth class, 15 days after the day on which the land use authority receives an applicant's written request under Subsection (3)(c)(i); and (B) for a city of the fifth class or a town, 30 days after the day on which the land use authority receives an applicant's written request under Subsection (3)(c)(i). (iv) If winter weather conditions do not reasonably permit a full and complete inspection of warranty work within the relevant time period described in Subsection (3)(c)(iii) so the land use authority is able to accept or reject the warranty work, the land use authority shall: (A) notify the applicant in writing before the end of the applicable time period described in Subsection (3)(c)(iii)(A) or (3)(c)(iii)(B) that, because of winter weather conditions, the land use authority will require additional time to accept or reject the performance of warranty work; and (B) complete the inspection of the performance of warranty work and provide the applicant with an acceptance or rejection as soon as practicable. (d) If a land use authority rejects an applicant's performance of warranty work three times, the municipality may take 15 days in addition to the relevant time period described in Subsection (3)(c)(iii) for subsequent inspections of the applicant's warranty work. (e) (i) If extraordinary circumstances do not permit a land use authority to complete inspection of warranty work within the relevant time period described in Subsection (3)(c)(iii) so the land use authority is able to accept or reject the warranty work, the land use authority shall: (A) notify the applicant in writing before the end of the applicable time period described in Subsection (3)(c)(iii)(A) or (3)(c)(iii)(B) that, because of the extraordinary circumstances, the land use authority requires additional time to accept or reject the performance of warranty work; and (B) complete the inspection of the performance of warranty work and provide the applicant with an acceptance or rejection within 30 days after the day on which the relevant time period described in Subsection (3)(c)(iii)(A) or (3)(c)(iii)(B) ends. (ii) The following situations constitute extraordinary circumstances for purposes of Subsection (3)(e)(i): (A) the land use authority is processing a request for inspection that substantially exceeds the normal scope of inspection the municipality is customarily required to perform; (B) the applicant has provided two or more written requests described in Subsection (3)(c)(i) within the same 30-day time period; or (C) the land use authority is processing an unusually large number of written requests described in Subsection (3)(c)(i) to accept or reject subdivision improvements or performance of warranty work. (f) (i) If a land use authority determines that the installation of required subdivision improvements or the performance of warranty work does not meet the municipality's adopted standards, the land use authority shall, within 15 days of the day on which the land use authority makes the determination, comprehensively and with specificity list the reasons for the land use authority's determination. (ii) If the land use authority fails to provide an applicant with the list described in Subsection (3)(f)(i) within the required time period: (A) the applicant may send written notice to the land use authority requesting the list within five days; and (B) if the applicant does not receive the list within five days from the day on which the applicant provides the land use authority with written notice as described in Subsection (3)(f)(ii)(A), the applicant may demand, and the land use authority shall provide, a reimbursement equal to 20% of the applicant's improvement completion assurance or security for the warranty work within each infrastructure improvement category. (g) Subject to the provisions of Section 10-20-807: (i) within 15 days of the day on which the land use authority determines that an infrastructure improvement within a certain infrastructure improvement category, as described in Subsection (3)(a), meets the municipality's adopted standards for that category of infrastructure improvement and an applicant submits complete as-built drawings to the land use authority, whichever occurs later, the land use authority shall return to the applicant 90% of the applicant's improvement completion assurance allocated toward that infrastructure improvement category; and (ii) within 15 days of the day on which the warranty period expires and the land use authority determines that an infrastructure improvement within a certain infrastructure improvement category, as described in Subsection (3)(a), meets the municipality's adopted standards for that category of infrastructure improvement, the land use authority shall return to the applicant the remaining 10% of the applicant's improvement completion assurance allocated toward that infrastructure improvement category, plus any remaining portion of a bond described in Subsection 10-20-807(5)(b). (h) The following acts under this Subsection (3) are administrative acts: (i) a municipality's return of an applicant's improvement completion assurance, or any portion of an improvement completion assurance, within a category of infrastructure improvements, to the applicant; and (ii) a municipality's return of an applicant's security for an improvement warranty, or any portion of security for an improvement warranty, within a category of infrastructure improvements, to the applicant. (4) Subject to Section 10-20-902, nothing in this section and no action or inaction of the land use authority relieves an applicant's duty to comply with all applicable substantive ordinances and regulations. (5) There shall be no money damages remedy arising from a claim under this section.
Utah Code § 10-6-131 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-131
§ 10-6-131. Transfer of balances in special funds.
Status: in_force

If the necessity for maintaining any special fund of a city has ceased to exist and a balance remains in the fund, the governing body shall authorize the transfer of the balance to the fund balance account in the city general fund of the city, subject to all of the following: (1) Any balance remaining in a special assessment fund and any unrequired balance in the city's special improvements guaranty fund shall be treated in the manner provided in Sections 11-42-413 and 11-42-701. (2) Any balance remaining in a capital improvements or capital projects fund shall be transferred to: (a) the appropriate debt service fund or other fund as required by the bond ordinance; or (b) to the fund balance account in the city general fund. (3) (a) If the governing body proposes to transfer a balance held in a trust fund for a specific purpose, other than a cemetery perpetual care trust fund, because the trust fund's original purpose or restriction has ceased to exist, the governing body shall hold a public hearing in accordance with Sections 10-6-113 and 10-6-114. (b) In addition to the notice requirements of Section 10-6-113, the published notice shall invite those original contributors who contributed to the fund to appear at the hearing. (c) (i) If the governing body determines that the fund balance amounts are refundable to the original fund contributors, the original contributors shall have 30 days after the day on which the hearing in Subsection (3)(a) is held to file with the governing body a verified claim only for the amount of each original contributor's contribution. (ii) Any claim not filed in accordance with this section is invalid and barred. (d) Any balance remaining, after refunds to eligible original contributors, shall be transferred to the fund balance account in the city general fund. (4) (a) If the governing body decides, in accordance with applicable laws and ordinances, that the need for continued maintenance of its cemetery perpetual care trust fund no longer exists, the governing body may, subject to Subsection (4)(b), transfer the balance in the cemetery perpetual care trust fund to the capital improvements fund. (b) The balance transferred from the cemetery perpetual care trust fund to the capital improvements fund shall be used for cemetery purposes only, including land, buildings, or major improvements.
Utah Code § 10-8-5 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-5
§ 10-8-5. Erection and care of buildings.
Status: in_force

They may erect all needful buildings for the use of the city, and provide for their care.
Utah Code § 10-20-406 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-406
§ 10-20-406. Effect of general plan.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 10-20-407, the general plan is an advisory guide for land use decisions, the impact of which shall be determined by ordinance.
Utah Code § 10-20-616 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-616
§ 10-20-616. Utility service connections.
Status: in_force

(1) A municipality may not enact an ordinance, a resolution, or a policy that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, the connection or reconnection of an energy utility service provided by a public utility as that term is defined in Section 54-2-1. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to: (a) an incentive offered by a municipality; or (b) a building owned by a municipality.
Utah Code § 10-6-121 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-121
§ 10-6-121. Departmental expenditures -- Encumbrances -- Purchase order.
Status: in_force

(1) The budget officer shall require all expenditures by any department to conform with the departmental budget. (2) No appropriation may be encumbered and no expenditure may be made against any departmental appropriation unless there is sufficient unencumbered balance in the department's appropriation, except in cases of emergency as provided by this chapter. (3) All encumbrances reported as outstanding as of the fiscal period end shall be supported by a purchase order issued on or before the last day of the fiscal period and approved by the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government or the governing body or its delegate in other cities, as provided under this chapter.
Utah Code § 10-20-506 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-506
§ 10-20-506. Conditional uses.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) A municipality may adopt a land use ordinance that includes conditional uses and provisions for conditional uses that require compliance with objective standards set forth in an applicable ordinance. (b) A municipality may not impose a requirement or standard on a conditional use that conflicts with a provision of this chapter or other state or federal law. (2) (a) (i) A land use authority shall approve a conditional use if reasonable conditions are proposed, or can be imposed, to mitigate the reasonably anticipated detrimental effects of the proposed use in accordance with applicable standards. (ii) The requirement described in Subsection (2)(a)(i) to reasonably mitigate anticipated detrimental effects of the proposed conditional use does not require elimination of the detrimental effects. (b) If a land use authority proposes reasonable conditions on a proposed conditional use, the land use authority shall ensure that the conditions are stated on the record and reasonably relate to mitigating the anticipated detrimental effects of the proposed use. (c) If the reasonably anticipated detrimental effects of a proposed conditional use cannot be substantially mitigated by the proposal or the imposition of reasonable conditions to achieve compliance with applicable standards, the land use authority may deny the conditional use. (3) A land use authority's decision to approve or deny conditional use is an administrative land use decision. (4) A legislative body shall classify any use that a land use regulation allows in a zoning district as either a permitted or conditional use under this chapter.
Utah Code § 10-2-301 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-301
§ 10-2-301. Classification of municipalities according to population.
Status: in_force

(1) Each municipality shall be classified according to its population, as provided in this section. (2) (a) A municipality with a population of 100,000 or more is a city of the first class. (b) A municipality with a population of 65,000 or more but less than 100,000 is a city of the second class. (c) A municipality with a population of 30,000 or more but less than 65,000 is a city of the third class. (d) A municipality with a population of 10,000 or more but less than 30,000 is a city of the fourth class. (e) A municipality with a population of 1,000 or more but less than 10,000 is a city of the fifth class. (f) A municipality with a population under 1,000 is a town.
Utah Code § 10-3-1103 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1103
§ 10-3-1103. Sickness, disability, and death benefits.
Status: in_force

(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.
Utah Code § 10-7-10.5 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / § 10-7-10.5
§ 10-7-10.5. Authority to require written application for water or sewer service and to terminate service for failure to pay -- Limitations.
Status: in_force

(1) A municipality that owns or controls a system for furnishing water or for providing sewer service may: (a) before furnishing water or providing sewer service to a property, require the property owner or an authorized agent to submit a written application, signed by the owner or an authorized agent, agreeing to pay for all water furnished or sewer service provided to the property, respectively, whether occupied by the owner or by a tenant or other occupant, according to the ordinances, rules, and regulations adopted by the municipality; and (b) if an owner fails to pay for water furnished or sewer service provided to the owner's property, discontinue furnishing water or providing sewer service to the property, respectively, until all amounts for water furnished or sewer service provided, respectively, are paid, subject to Subsection (2). (2) (a) A municipality may not use an owner's failure to pay for water furnished or sewer service provided to the owner's property as a basis for not furnishing water or providing sewer service to the property after ownership of the property is transferred to a subsequent owner. (b) A municipality may not require an owner to pay for water that was furnished or sewer service that was provided to the property before the owner's ownership.
Utah Code § 10-6-122 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-122
§ 10-6-122. Purchasing procedures and file of bids received and proof of advertisement -- Time for keeping.
Status: in_force

(1) All purchases or encumbrances thereof by a city shall be made or incurred according to the purchasing procedures established by each city by ordinance or resolution and only on an order or approval of the person duly authorized to act as a purchasing agent for the city. (2) Whenever any city is required by law to receive bids for purchases, construction, repairs, or any other purpose requiring the expenditure of funds, that city shall keep on file all bids received, together with proof of advertisement by publication or otherwise, for: (a) at least three years following the letting of any contract pursuant to those bids; or (b) three years following the first advertisement for the bids, if all bids pursuant to that advertisement are rejected.
Utah Code § 10-2-709 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-709
§ 10-2-709. Expenses of election.
Status: in_force

The expenses of the election, of winding down the affairs and of dissolving the municipality, shall be the obligation of the municipality and shall be paid by it.
Utah Code § 10-20-912 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-912
§ 10-20-912. Exactions for water rights.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to the requirements of this section, a municipality shall base an exaction for a water interest on the culinary water authority's established calculations of projected water interest requirements. (2) Except as provided in Subsection (3), a culinary water authority shall base an exaction for a culinary water interest on: (a) consideration of the system-wide minimum sizing standards established for the culinary water authority by the Division of Drinking Water under Section 19-4-114; and (b) the number of equivalent residential connections associated with the culinary water demand for each specific development proposed in the development's land use application, applying lower exactions for developments with lower equivalent residential connections as demonstrated by at least five years of usage data for like land uses within the municipality. (3) If a municipality determines, in the sole discretion of the municipality, that good cause exists, the municipality may impose an exaction for a culinary water interest that results in less water being exacted than would otherwise be exacted under Subsection (2). (4) (a) A municipality shall make public the methodology used to comply with Subsection (2)(b). (b) A land use applicant may submit a request to the municipality's legislative body to review an exaction calculation used by the municipality under Subsection (2). (c) A land use applicant may present data and other information that illustrates a need for an exaction recalculation and the municipality's legislative body shall respond with due process. (5) Upon an applicant's request, the culinary water authority shall provide the applicant with the basis for the culinary water authority's calculations under Subsection (2) on which an exaction for a water interest is based. (6) (a) A municipality may not impose an exaction for a water interest if: (i) the culinary water authority's existing available water interests exceed the water interests needed to meet the reasonable future water requirement of the public; or (ii) the municipality or the municipality's culinary water authority does not have a written plan in accordance with Subsection (6)(b). (b) Beginning on January 1, 2028, a municipality shall determine the municipality's water interests needed to meet the reasonable future water requirement of the public by completing a written plan described in Subsection 73-1-4(2)(f). (7) A provider of culinary or secondary water that commits to provide a water service required by a land use application process is subject to the provisions of this section and Section 10-20-911 the same as if the provider were a municipality.
Utah Code § 10-5-129 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / § 10-5-129
§ 10-5-129. Annual financial report.
Status: in_force

(1) The town clerk or other designated person shall prepare and present to the council: (a) (i) a quarterly financial report; or (ii) upon request by the council, a financial report more frequently than each quarter; and (b) an annual financial report within 180 days after the close of each fiscal year. (2) The requirement described in Subsection (1)(b) may be satisfied by an audit report or annual financial report of an independent auditor.
Utah Code § 10-8-28 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-28
§ 10-8-28. Flags and banners.
Status: in_force

They may regulate or prevent the flying of flags, banners or signs across the streets or from houses.
Utah Code § 10-6-101 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-101
§ 10-6-101. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities."
Utah Code § 10-3b-606 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3b / § 10-3b-606
§ 10-3b-606. Election of officers after a change in the form of government.
Status: in_force

(1) If voters approve a proposal to change the municipality's form of government at an election held as provided in this part, an election of officers under the new form of government shall be held on the municipal general election date following the election at which voters approve the proposal. (2) If a municipality changes its form of government under this part resulting in the elimination of an elected official's position, the municipality shall continue to pay that official at the same rate until the date on which the official's term would have expired, unless under the new form of government the official holds municipal office for which the official is regularly compensated. (3) A council member whose term has not expired at the time the municipality changes its form of government under this part may, at the council member's option, continue to serve as a council member under the new form of government for the remainder of the member's term. (4) The term of the mayor and each council member is four years or until a successor is qualified, except that approximately half of the initial council members, chosen by lot, shall serve a term of two years or until a successor is qualified.
Utah Code § 10-15-2 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / § 10-15-2
§ 10-15-2. Legislative findings and purposes.
Status: in_force

(1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in certain areas in municipalities within the state, and particularly in retail shopping areas thereof, there is need to separate pedestrian travel from vehicular travel and that such separation is necessary to protect the public safety or otherwise to serve the public interest and convenience. (2) The Legislature further finds and declares that such objectives can, in part, be accomplished by the establishment of pedestrian malls pursuant to this chapter.
Utah Code § 10-19-201 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-19 / § 10-19-201
§ 10-19-201. Target amount of qualifying electricity -- Renewable energy certificate -- Cost-effectiveness.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) To the extent that it is cost-effective to do so, beginning in 2025 the annual retail electric sales in this state of each municipal electric utility shall consist of qualifying electricity or renewable energy certificates in an amount equal to at least 20% of adjusted retail electric sales. (b) The amount under Subsection (1)(a) is computed based upon adjusted retail sales for the calendar year commencing 36 months before the first day of the year for which the target calculated under Subsection (1)(a) applies. (c) Notwithstanding Subsections (1)(a) and (b) an increase in the annual target from one year to the next is limited to the greater of: (i) 17,500 megawatt-hours; or (ii) 20% of the prior year's amount under Subsections (1)(a) and (b). (2) Cost-effectiveness under Subsection (1) is determined using any criteria applicable to the municipal electric utility's acquisition of a significant energy resource established by the municipality's legislative body. (3) This section does not require a municipal electric utility to: (a) substitute qualifying electricity for electricity from a generation source owned or contractually committed, or from a contractual commitment for a power purchase; (b) enter into any additional electric sales commitment or any other arrangement for the sale or other disposition of electricity that is not already, or would not be, entered into by the municipal electric utility; or (c) acquire qualifying electricity in excess of its adjusted retail electric sales. (4) A municipal electrical corporation may combine the following to meet Subsection (1): (a) qualifying electricity from a clean energy source owned by the municipal electric utility; (b) qualifying electricity acquired by the municipal electric utility through trade, power purchase, or other transfer; and (c) a bundled or unbundled renewable energy certificate, including a banked renewable energy certificate. (5) To meet Subsection (1), a municipal electric utility may also count: (a) qualifying electricity generated or acquired or renewable energy certificates acquired for a program permitting the municipal electric utility's customers to voluntarily contribute to a renewable energy source; and (b) electricity allocated to this state that is produced by a hydroelectric facility becoming operational after December 31, 2007, if the hydroelectric facility is located in any state in which the municipal electric utility, or the interlocal entity with which the municipal electric utility has a contract, provides electric service.
Utah Code § 10-20-617 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-617
§ 10-20-617. Infrastructure improvements involving roadways.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Low impact development" means the same as that term is defined in Section 19-5-108.5. (b) (i) "Pavement" means the bituminous or concrete surface of a roadway. (ii) "Pavement" does not include a curb or gutter. (c) "Residential street" means a public or private roadway that: (i) currently serves or is projected to serve an area designated primarily for single-family residential use; (ii) requires at least two off-site parking spaces for each single-family residential property abutting the roadway; and (iii) has or is projected to have, on average, traffic of no more than 1,000 trips per day, based on findings contained in: (A) a traffic impact study; (B) the municipality's general plan under Section 10-20-401; (C) an adopted phasing plan; or (D) a written plan or report on current or projected traffic usage. (2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), a municipality may not, as part of an infrastructure improvement, require the installation of pavement on a residential street at a width in excess of 32 feet if the municipality requires low impact development for the area in which the residential street is located. (b) Subsection (2)(a) does not apply if a municipality requires the installation of pavement: (i) in a vehicle turnaround area; or (ii) to address specific traffic flow constraints at an intersection or other area. (3) (a) A municipality shall, by ordinance, establish any standards that the municipality requires, as part of an infrastructure improvement, for fire department vehicle access and turnaround on roadways. (b) The municipality shall ensure that the standards established under Subsection (3)(a) are consistent with the State Fire Code as defined in Section 15A-1-102.
Utah Code § 10-20-305 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-305
§ 10-20-305. State and federal property.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Commuter rail" means the same as that term is defined in Section 63N-23-101. (b) (i) "Commuter rail facility" means a parking facility or maintenance facility related to commuter rail. (ii) "Commuter rail facility" does not include the rail or a station platform. (2) Unless otherwise provided by law, nothing contained in this chapter or Chapter 21, Municipalities and Housing Supply, may be construed as giving a municipality jurisdiction over: (a) real property or an interest in real property owned by the state or the United States; or (b) except as provided by Subsection (3), other real property necessary for the construction of a commuter rail project for which the Department of Transportation has oversight and supervision. (3) Upon completion of a commuter rail project described in Subsection (2), including any performance of work related to warranties and latent defects, a municipality retains the jurisdiction and land use authority provided by law over the completed commuter rail facilities. (4) (a) As used in this Subsection (4), "exempted government landowner" means a state agency, independent entity, or regional economic development authority that has exclusive control over the management, development, and disposition of a parcel of state-owned land. (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (2), when an exempted government landowner intends to dispose of a parcel of state-owned land, a municipality may coordinate with the exempted government landowner to develop a prospective land use regulation or general plan amendment for the parcel in order to ensure alignment between the exempted government landowner's activity and objectives and the municipality's role as the land use authority if the parcel is conveyed to a private owner. (c) A municipal legislative body that adopts a prospective land use regulation or amends a general plan under Subsection (4)(b) is not required to comply with the notice provisions of Part 2, Notice, the procedure specified in Section 10-20-502, or Subsections 10-20-503(2) and (3), if: (i) the prospective land use regulation will govern, or the general plan amendment describes, state-owned land if that the state-owned land is transferred to private ownership; and (ii) the exempted government landowner requested the prospective land use regulation or general plan amendment.
Utah Code § 10-8-23 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-23
§ 10-8-23. Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice.
Status: in_force

They may regulate and control the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder or thereover; and they may require the owner or occupant, or the agent of any owner or occupant, of property to remove all weeds and noxious vegetation from such property, and in front thereof to the curb line of the street, and to keep the sidewalks in front of such property free from litter, snow, ice and obstructions.
Utah Code § 10-1-310 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / § 10-1-310
§ 10-1-310. Existing energy franchise taxes or contractual franchise fees.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as authorized in Subsection (2), Section 59-12-203, or Section 10-1-304, a municipality may not: (a) impose on, charge, or collect a franchise tax or contractual a franchise fee from an energy supplier; or (b) collect a franchise tax or contractual franchise fee pursuant to a franchise agreement in effect on July 1, 1997. (2) A municipality that collects a contractual franchise fee from an energy supplier pursuant to a franchise agreement in effect on July 1, 1997, may continue to collect that fee at the same rate for the remaining term of the franchise agreement, except the municipality shall provide a credit against the municipal energy sales and use tax in the amount of the contractual franchise fee paid by the energy supplier pursuant to Subsection 10-1-305(5). (3) (a) Subject to the requirements of Subsection (3)(b), a franchise agreement as defined in Subsection 10-1-303(7) between a municipality and an energy supplier may contain a provision that: (i) requires the energy supplier by agreement to pay a contractual franchise fee that is otherwise prohibited under Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3, Municipal Energy Sales and Use Tax Act; and (ii) imposes the contractual franchise fee on or after the day on which Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3, Municipal Energy Sales and Use Tax Act is: (A) repealed, invalidated, or the maximum allowable rate provided in Section 10-1-304 is reduced; and (B) is not superseded by a law imposing a substantially equivalent tax. (b) A municipality may not charge a contractual franchise fee under the provisions permitted by Subsection (3)(a) unless the municipality charges an equal contractual franchise fee or a tax on all energy suppliers. (4) This section may not affect the validity of any existing or future franchise agreement and any franchise agreement effective on July 1, 1997, shall remain in full force and effect, unless otherwise terminated or altered by agreement or applicable law.
Utah Code § 10-7-26 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / § 10-7-26
§ 10-7-26. Streets and alleys used by railway companies.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section and in Sections 10-7-27, 10-7-29, 10-7-30, 10-7-31, 10-7-32, and 10-7-33, the terms "railway company" or "street railway company" means any company which owns or operates railway tracks on, along or across a street or alley in any city or town. (2) (a) Nothing contained in this section or in the sections referred to in Subsection (1) shall be construed to exempt any railway company from keeping every portion of every street and alley used by it and upon or across which tracks shall be constructed at or near the grade of such streets in good and safe condition for public travel, but it shall keep the same planked, paved, macadamized or otherwise in such condition for public travel as the governing body of the city or town may from time to time direct, keeping the plank, pavement or other surface of the street or alley level with the top of the rails of the track. (b) The portions of the streets or alleys to be so kept and maintained by all such railway companies shall include all the space between their different rails and tracks and also a space outside of the outer rail of each outside track of at least two feet in width, and the tracks herein referred to shall include not only the main tracks but also all sidetracks, crossings and turnouts constructed for the use of such railways.
Utah Code § 10-2a-504 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2a / § 10-2a-504
§ 10-2a-504. Feasibility study -- Feasibility study consultant -- Qualifications for proceeding with incorporation.
Status: in_force

(1) Unless the lieutenant governor rescinds the certification under Subsection 10-2a-503(5)(b), the lieutenant governor shall, within 90 days after the day on which the lieutenant governor certifies a feasibility request under Subsection 10-2a-503(3)(a), in accordance with Subsection (2), engage a feasibility consultant to conduct a feasibility study. (2) The lieutenant governor shall: (a) select a feasibility consultant in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 6a, Utah Procurement Code; (b) ensure that the feasibility consultant: (i) has expertise in the processes and economics of local government; and (ii) is not affiliated with a sponsor of the feasibility request or the county in which the proposed municipality is located; and (c) require the feasibility consultant to: (i) submit a draft of the feasibility study to each applicable person with whom the feasibility consultant is required to consult under Subsection (3)(c) within 90 days after the day on which the lieutenant governor engages the feasibility consultant to conduct the study; (ii) allow each person to whom the consultant provides a draft under Subsection (2)(c)(i) to review and provide comment on the draft; (iii) submit a completed feasibility study, including a one-page summary of the results, to the following within 120 days after the day on which the lieutenant governor engages the feasibility consultant to conduct the feasibility study: (A) the lieutenant governor; (B) the county legislative body of the county in which the proposed preliminary municipality area is located; (C) the primary sponsor contact; and (D) each person to whom the consultant provided a draft under Subsection (2)(c)(i); and (iv) attend the public hearings described in Section 10-2a-506 to present the feasibility study results and respond to questions from the public. (3) (a) The feasibility study shall include: (i) an analysis of: (A) the likely population and population density within the proposed preliminary municipality area when all phases of the map or plat for the proposed preliminary municipality area are completed; and (B) the population and population density of the area surrounding the proposed preliminary municipality area on the day on which the feasibility request was submitted; (ii) an analysis of the following, determined as if, at the time of the analysis, the proposed preliminary municipality area is incorporated as a town with a population of 100 people: (A) the initial and projected five-year demographics and tax base within the boundaries of the proposed preliminary municipality area and the surrounding area, including household size and income, commercial and industrial development, and public facilities; (B) subject to Subsection (3)(b), the initial and five-year projected cost of providing municipal services to the proposed preliminary municipality area, including administrative costs; (C) assuming the same tax categories and tax rates as imposed by the county and all other current service providers at the time during which the feasibility consultant prepares the feasibility study, the initial and five-year projected revenue for the proposed preliminary municipality area; (D) the risks and opportunities that might affect the actual costs described in Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(B) or the revenues described in Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(C) of the proposed preliminary municipality area; (E) new revenue sources that may be available to the proposed preliminary municipality area that are not available before the area incorporates, including an analysis of the amount of revenues the proposed preliminary municipality area might obtain from those revenue sources; (F) the projected tax burden per household of any new taxes that may be levied within the proposed preliminary municipality area within five years after incorporation as a town; and (G) the fiscal impact of the proposed preliminary municipality area's incorporation as a town on unincorporated areas, other municipalities, special districts, special service districts, and other governmental entities in the county; and (iii) an analysis regarding whether sufficient water will be available to support the proposed preliminary municipality area when the development of the area is complete. (b) (i) In calculating the projected costs under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(B), the feasibility consultant shall assume the proposed preliminary municipality area will provide a level and quality of municipal services that fairly and reasonably approximate the level and quality of municipal services that are provided to the area surrounding the proposed preliminary municipality area at the time the feasibility consultant conducts the feasibility study. (ii) In calculating the current cost of a municipal service under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(B), the feasibility consultant shall consider: (A) the amount it would cost the proposed preliminary municipality area to provide the municipal service for the first five years after the area incorporates as a town; and (B) the proposed or current municipal service provider's initial and five-year projected cost of providing the municipal service after the proposed preliminary municipality area incorporates as a town. (iii) In calculating costs under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(B), the feasibility consultant shall account for inflation and anticipated growth. (c) In conducting the feasibility study, the feasibility consultant shall consult with the following before submitting a draft of the feasibility study under Subsection (2)(c)(iii): (i) if the proposed preliminary municipality will include lands owned by the United States federal government, the entity within the United States federal government that has jurisdiction over the land; (ii) if the proposed preliminary municipality will include lands owned by the state, the entity within state government that has jurisdiction over the land; (iii) each entity that provides, or is proposed to provide, a municipal service to a portion of the proposed preliminary municipality area; and (iv) each other special service district that provides, or is proposed to provide, services to a portion of the proposed preliminary municipality area. (4) If the five-year projected revenues calculated under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(C) exceed the five-year projected costs calculated under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(B) by more than 5%, the feasibility consultant shall project and report the expected annual revenue surplus to the primary sponsor contact and the lieutenant governor. (5) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (5)(b), if the results of the feasibility study, or a supplemental feasibility study described in Section 10-2a-505, show that the average annual amount of revenue calculated under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(C) does not exceed the average annual cost calculated under Subsection (3)(a)(ii)(B) by more than 5%, the process to incorporate the area that is the subject of the feasibility study or supplemental feasibility study may not proceed. (b) Except as provided in Subsection 10-2a-505(3), the process to incorporate an area described in Subsection (5)(a) may proceed if a subsequent supplemental feasibility study conducted under Section 10-2a-505 for the proposed incorporation demonstrates compliance with Subsection (5)(a). (6) If the results of the feasibility study or revised feasibility study do not comply with Subsection (5), and if requested by the sponsors of the request, the feasibility consultant shall, as part of the feasibility study or revised feasibility study, make recommendations regarding how the proposed preliminary municipality area may be altered to comply with Subsection (5), unless the sponsors are precluded from modifying the feasibility request under Subsection 10-2a-505(3). (7) The lieutenant governor shall post a copy of the feasibility study, and any supplemental feasibility study described in Section 10-2a-505, on the lieutenant governor's website and make a copy available for public review at the lieutenant governor's office.
Utah Code § 10-6-150 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-150
§ 10-6-150. Annual financial reports -- Independent audit reports.
Status: in_force

(1) Within 180 days after the close of each fiscal period or, for a city that has adopted a fiscal period that is a biennial period, within 180 days after both the mid-point and the close of the fiscal period, the city recorder or other delegated person shall present to the governing body an annual financial report prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, as prescribed in the Uniform Accounting Manual for Utah Cities. (2) (a) The requirement under Subsection (1) to present an annual financial report may be satisfied by presentation of the audit report furnished by the independent auditor, if the financial statements included are appropriately prepared and reviewed with the governing body. (b) Notwithstanding the acceptability of the audit report furnished by the independent auditor in substitution for financial statements prepared by an officer of the city, the governing body has the responsibility for those financial statements. (c) The independent auditor has the responsibility of reporting whether the governing body's financial statements are prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. (3) Copies of the annual financial report or the audit report furnished by the independent auditor shall be filed with the state auditor and shall be filed as a public document in the office of the city recorder.
Utah Code § 10-20-805 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-805
§ 10-20-805. Process for subdivision review and approval.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) As used in this section, an "administrative land use authority" means an individual, board, or commission, appointed or employed by a municipality, including municipal staff or a municipal planning commission. (b) "Administrative land use authority" does not include a municipal legislative body or a member of a municipal legislative body. (2) (a) This section applies to land use decisions arising from subdivision applications for single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, or townhomes. (b) This section does not apply to land use regulations adopted, approved, or agreed upon by a legislative body exercising land use authority in the review of land use applications for zoning or other land use regulation approvals. (3) A municipal ordinance governing the subdivision of land shall: (a) comply with this section, and establish a standard method and form of application for preliminary subdivision applications and final subdivision applications; and (b) (i) designate a single administrative land use authority for the review of preliminary applications to subdivide land; or (ii) if the municipality has adopted an ordinance that establishes a separate procedure for the review and approval of subdivisions under Section 10-20-808, the municipality may designate a different and separate administrative land use authority for the approval of subdivisions under Section 10-20-808. (4) (a) If an applicant requests a pre-application meeting, the municipality shall, within 15 business days after the request, schedule the meeting to review the concept plan and give initial feedback. (b) At the pre-application meeting, the municipal staff shall provide or have available on the municipal website the following: (i) copies of applicable land use regulations; (ii) a complete list of standards required for the project; (iii) preliminary and final application checklists; and (iv) feedback on the concept plan. (5) A preliminary subdivision application shall comply with all applicable municipal ordinances and requirements of this section. (6) An administrative land use authority may complete a preliminary subdivision application review in a public meeting or at a municipal staff level. (7) With respect to a preliminary application to subdivide land, an administrative land use authority may: (a) receive public comment; and (b) hold no more than one public hearing. (8) If a preliminary subdivision application complies with the applicable municipal ordinances and the requirements of this section, the administrative land use authority shall approve the preliminary subdivision application. (9) A municipality shall review and approve or deny a final subdivision plat application in accordance with the provisions of this section and municipal ordinances, which: (a) may permit concurrent processing of the final subdivision plat application with the preliminary subdivision plat application; and (b) may not require planning commission or city council approval. (10) If a final subdivision application complies with the requirements of this section, the applicable municipal ordinances, and the preliminary subdivision approval granted under Subsection (9)(a), a municipality shall approve the final subdivision application.
Utah Code § 10-3-919 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-919
§ 10-3-919. Powers, duties, and obligations of police chief, marshal, and their assistants in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
Status: in_force

The chief of police, marshals, and their assistants in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town shall have all of the powers, rights, and duties respectively conferred on such officers in Sections 10-3-913 through 10-3-915.
Utah Code § 10-3-914 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-914
§ 10-3-914. Police officers -- Authority.
Status: in_force

(1) Within the boundaries of the municipality, police officers have the same authority as deputy sheriffs, including at all times the authority to preserve the public peace, prevent crime, detect and arrest offenders, suppress riots, protect persons and property, remove nuisances existing in the public streets, roads, and highways, enforce every law relating to the suppression of offenses, and perform all duties required of them by ordinance or resolution. (2) This section is not a limitation of a police officer's statewide authority as otherwise provided by law.
Utah Code § 10-8-4 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-4
§ 10-8-4. Special taxes and licenses.
Status: in_force

(1) Municipal legislative bodies may: (a) subject to Subsection (2), fix the amount, terms, and manner of issuing licenses; and (b) consistent with general law, provide the manner and form in which special taxes are levied and collected. (2) (a) Municipal legislative bodies may not discriminate between resident community businesses and nonresident community businesses in establishing license requirements. (b) Municipal legislative bodies may not impose motor vehicle delivery license fees on persons or entities who: (i) are licensed as dealers in another municipality; or (ii) do not have a permanent business location in the municipality.
Utah Code § 10-7-66 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / § 10-7-66
§ 10-7-66. Fines and forfeitures to be paid to treasurer -- Exceptions.
Status: in_force

Except where otherwise provided by law in relation to fines, fees, and forfeitures imposed or received by a court of this state, all fines and forfeitures for the violation of ordinances shall be paid into the treasury of the corporation at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.
Utah Code § 10-6-123 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-123
§ 10-6-123. Expenditures or encumbrances in excess of appropriations prohibited -- Processing claims.
Status: in_force

(1) City officers may not make or incur expenditures or encumbrances in excess of total appropriations for any department in the budget as adopted or as subsequently amended. (2) Any obligation contracted by any such officer may not be or become valid or enforceable against the city. (3) No check or warrant to cover any claim against any appropriation shall be drawn until the claim has been processed as provided by this chapter.
Utah Code § 10-2-606 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-606
§ 10-2-606. Public hearings.
Status: in_force

(1) The governing body of each municipality in its plan for consolidation shall set a time and place for a public hearing or public hearings which shall be held at least 10 days after the plan of consolidation and the dates of the public hearing have been submitted to the county legislative bodies. (2) The public hearing may be held jointly or separately by the governing bodies of each municipality to be consolidated. (3) Any interested person may be heard on any aspect of the proposed consolidation. (4) One or more certified copies of the plan of consolidation shall be available in the recorder's office of each municipality at least five days prior to the hearing.
Utah Code § 10-6-140 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-140
§ 10-6-140. Warrants for payment of claims.
Status: in_force

In the event the city is without funds on deposit in one of its appropriate bank accounts with which to pay any lawfully approved claim, the city auditor or recorder shall draw and sign a warrant upon the treasurer of the city for payment of the claim, the warrant to be tendered to the payee named thereon.
Utah Code § 10-2-501 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-501
§ 10-2-501. Municipal disconnection -- Definitions -- Request for disconnection -- Requirements upon filing request -- Notice.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this part "petitioner" means: (a) one or more persons who: (i) own title to real property within the area proposed for disconnection; and (ii) sign a request for disconnection proposing to disconnect the area proposed for disconnection from the municipality; or (b) the mayor of the municipality within which the area proposed for disconnection is located who signs a request for disconnection proposing to disconnect the area proposed for disconnection from the municipality. (2) (a) A petitioner proposing to disconnect an area within and lying on the borders of a municipality shall file with that municipality's legislative body a request for disconnection. (b) Each request for disconnection shall: (i) contain the names, addresses, and signatures of the owners of more than 50% of any private real property in the area proposed for disconnection; (ii) give the reasons for the proposed disconnection; (iii) include a map or plat of the territory proposed for disconnection; and (iv) designate between one and five persons with authority to act on the petitioner's behalf in the proceedings. (3) Upon receiving a request for disconnection, a municipal legislative body shall publish notice of the request: (a) in accordance with the legal notice requirements described in Section 45-1-101, for three weeks before the day of the public hearing described in Section 10-2-502.5; and (b) for the area proposed to be disconnected, as a class B notice under Section 63G-30-102, for at least three weeks before the day of the public hearing described in Section 10-2-502.5. (4) A municipal legislative body may bill the petitioner for the cost of preparing, printing, and publishing the notice required under Subsection (3).
Utah Code § 10-15-4 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / § 10-15-4
§ 10-15-4. Powers of legislative body of municipality.
Status: in_force

The legislative body of the municipalities of this state shall have the power: (1) to establish pedestrian malls; (2) to prohibit, in whole or in part, vehicular traffic on a pedestrian mall; (3) to pay from the general funds of the municipality, or from other available money, or from the proceeds of assessments levied on land benefited by the establishment of a pedestrian mall, the damages, if any, allowed or awarded to any property owner by reason of the establishment of the pedestrian mall; (4) to acquire, construct, and maintain on the municipality's streets which are established as a pedestrian mall, improvements of any kind or nature necessary or convenient to the operation of such streets as a pedestrian mall, including paving, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, drainage works, lighting facilities, fire protection facilities, flood protection facilities, water distribution facilities, vehicular parking areas, retaining walls, landscaping, tree planting, statuaries, fountains, decorative structures, benches, rest rooms, child care facilities, display facilities, information booths, public assembly facilities, and other structures, works or improvements necessary or convenient to serve members of the public using such pedestrian malls, including the reconstruction or relocation of existing municipally owned works, improvements, or facilities on such municipal streets; which foregoing changes or any portions thereof, are referred to in this chapter as "improvements"; (5) to pay from the general funds of the municipality or other available money, or from the proceeds of assessments levied on property benefited by any such improvements, or from the proceeds of special improvement warrants or bonds, the whole or any portion of the costs of acquisition, construction, and maintenance of such improvements in accordance with the provisions of Title 11, Chapter 42, Assessment Area Act, relating to special improvement assessments; and (6) to do any and all other acts or things necessary or convenient for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter.
Utah Code § 10-2a-212 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2a / § 10-2a-212
§ 10-2a-212. Notification to lieutenant governor of incorporation election results.
Status: in_force

Within 10 days after the day on which the county conducts a canvass of the incorporation election, the county clerk shall send written notice to the lieutenant governor of: (1) the results of the election; and (2) if the incorporation measure passes, the name of the municipality.
Utah Code § 10-3-1006 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1006
§ 10-3-1006. Rules and regulations -- Printing and distribution.
Status: in_force

(1) The civil service commission shall make all necessary rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this part and for examinations, appointments and promotions. (2) All rules and regulations shall be printed by the civil service commission for distribution.
Utah Code § 10-7-5 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / § 10-7-5
§ 10-7-5. Limitations on lease or purchase.
Status: in_force

It is not lawful for any city or town to lease or purchase any part of such waterworks less than the whole, or to lease the same, unless the contract therefor shall provide that the city or town shall have control thereof and that the net revenues therefrom shall be divided proportionately to the interests of the parties thereto; said contract shall also provide a list of water rates to be enforced during the term of such contract.
Utah Code § 10-5-117 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / § 10-5-117
§ 10-5-117. Increasing budget total of fund.
Status: in_force

Except for enterprise funds, which may be increased without a public hearing, the council may increase the budget total of one or more of these funds by following the procedures set forth in Section 10-5-108.
Utah Code § 10-6-132 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-132
§ 10-6-132. Loans by one fund to another -- Acquiring bonds for investment.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to this section, restrictions imposed by bond ordinance, or other controlling regulations, the governing body of a city may: (a) subject to the restrictions in Section 53-2a-605, authorize an interfund loan from one fund to another; and (b) with available cash in any fund, purchase or otherwise acquire for investment an unmatured bond of the city or of any fund of the city. (2) An interfund loan under Subsection (1)(a) shall be in writing and specify the terms and conditions of the loan, including the: (a) effective date of the loan; (b) name of the fund loaning the money; (c) name of the fund receiving the money; (d) amount of the loan; (e) subject to Subsection (3), term of and repayment schedule for the loan; (f) subject to Subsection (4), interest rate of the loan; (g) method of calculating interest applicable to the loan; (h) procedures for: (i) applying interest to the loan; and (ii) paying interest on the loan; and (i) other terms and conditions the governing body determines applicable. (3) The term and repayment schedule specified under Subsection (2)(e) may not exceed 10 years. (4) (a) In determining the interest rate of the loan specified under Subsection (2)(f), the governing body shall apply an interest rate that reflects the rate of potential gain had the funds been deposited or invested in a comparable investment. (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (4)(a), the interest rate of the loan specified under Subsection (2)(f): (i) if the term of the loan under Subsection (2)(e) is one year or less, may not be less than the rate offered by the Public Treasurers' Investment Fund as defined in Section 51-7-3; or (ii) if the term of the loan under Subsection (2)(e) is more than one year, may not be less than the greater of the rate offered by: (A) the Public Treasurers' Investment Fund as defined in Section 51-7-3; or (B) a United States Treasury note of a comparable term. (5) (a) For an interfund loan under Subsection (1)(a), the governing body shall: (i) hold a public hearing; (ii) prepare a written notice of the date, time, place, and purpose of the hearing, and the proposed terms and conditions of the interfund loan under Subsection (2); (iii) provide notice of the public hearing in the same manner as required under Section 10-6-113 as if the hearing were a budget hearing; and (iv) authorize the interfund loan by ordinance or resolution in a public meeting. (b) The notice and hearing requirements in Subsection (5)(a) are satisfied if the interfund loan is included in an original budget or in a subsequent budget amendment previously approved by the governing body for the current fiscal year. (6) Subsections (2) through (5) do not apply to an interfund loan if the interfund loan is: (a) a loan from the city general fund to any other fund of the city; or (b) a short-term advance from the city's cash and investment pool to individual funds that are repaid by the end of the fiscal year.
Utah Code § 10-2-605 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-605
§ 10-2-605. Effect of plan of consolidation.
Status: in_force

(1) The plan of consolidation shall be subordinate in all respects to the contract rights of all holders of any securities or obligations of the municipality outstanding at the effective date of the consolidation. (2) The plan shall be available to the public for inspection and copying. (3) The plan may extend for a period of up to 20 years, except that those provisions necessary for the protection of the holders of any securities or other obligations of any municipalities being consolidated shall extend for such longer time as may be necessary to ensure the payment of the securities and obligations. (4) Any person may enforce the provisions and terms of the plan during the period in which the plan is effective. (5) After the expiration of the period of the plan, the rights, duties and obligations stated in the plan shall be governed by the laws of the State of Utah and not by the plan. (6) The plan shall be effective only if the consolidation is approved by the voters of the respective municipalities to be consolidated.
Utah Code § 10-20-804 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-804
§ 10-20-804. Subdivision plat approval procedure -- Effect of not complying.
Status: in_force

(1) A person may not submit a subdivision plat to the county recorder's office for recording unless: (a) the person has complied with the requirements of Subsection 10-20-803(6)(a); (b) the plat has been approved by: (i) the land use authority of the municipality in which the land described in the plat is located; and (ii) other officers that the municipality designates in its ordinance; (c) all approvals described in Subsection (1)(b) are entered in writing on the plat by the designated officers; and (d) if the person submitting the plat intends the plat to be or if the plat is part of a community association subject to Title 57, Chapter 8a, Community Association Act, the plat includes language conveying to the association, as that term is defined in Section 57-8a-102, all common areas, as that term is defined in Section 57-8a-102. (2) A subdivision plat recorded without the signatures required under this section is void. (3) A transfer of land pursuant to a void plat is voidable by the land use authority.
Utah Code § 10-6-106 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-106
§ 10-6-106. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Account group" is defined by generally accepted accounting principles as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for Utah Cities. (2) "Appropriation" means an allocation of money by the governing body for a specific purpose. (3) (a) "Budget" means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal period which embodies estimates of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means of financing them. (b) "Budget" may refer to the budget of a particular fund for which a budget is required by law or it may refer collectively to the budgets for all such funds. (4) "Budget officer" means the city auditor in a city of the first and second class, the mayor or some person appointed by the mayor with the approval of the city council in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class, the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government, or the person designated by the charter in a charter city. (5) "Budget period" means the fiscal period for which a budget is prepared. (6) "Budgetary fund" means a fund for which a budget is required. (7) "Check" means an order in a specific amount drawn upon a depository by an authorized officer of a city. (8) "City general fund" means the general fund used by a city. (9) "Current period" means the fiscal period in which a budget is prepared and adopted, i.e., the fiscal period next preceding the budget period. (10) "Department" means any functional unit within a fund that carries on a specific activity, such as a fire or police department within a city general fund. (11) "Encumbrance system" means a method of budgetary control in which part of an appropriation is reserved to cover a specific expenditure by charging obligations, such as purchase orders, contracts, or salary commitments to an appropriation account at their time of origin. Such obligations cease to be encumbrances when paid or when the actual liability is entered on the city's books of account. (12) "Enterprise fund" means a fund as defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board that is used by a municipality to report an activity for which a fee is charged to users for goods or services. (13) "Estimated revenue" means the amount of revenue estimated to be received from all sources during the budget period in each fund for which a budget is being prepared. (14) "Financial officer" means the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government or the city official as authorized by Section 10-6-158. (15) "Fiscal period" means the annual or biennial period for accounting for fiscal operations in each city. (16) "Fund" is as defined by generally accepted accounting principles as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for Utah Cities. (17) "Fund balance," "retained earnings," and "deficit" have the meanings commonly accorded such terms under generally accepted accounting principles as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for Utah Cities. (18) "General fund" is as defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for All Local Governments prepared by the Office of the Utah State Auditor. (19) "Governing body" means a city council, or city commission, as the case may be, but the authority to make any appointment to any position created by this chapter is vested in the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government. (20) "Interfund loan" means a loan of cash from one fund to another, subject to future repayment. (21) "Last completed fiscal period" means the fiscal period next preceding the current period. (22) (a) "Public funds" means any money or payment collected or received by an officer or employee of the city acting in an official capacity and includes money or payment to the officer or employee for services or goods provided by the city, or the officer or employee while acting within the scope of employment or duty. (b) "Public funds" does not include money or payments collected or received by an officer or employee of a city for charitable purposes if the mayor or city council has consented to the officer's or employee's participation in soliciting contributions for a charity. (23) "Special fund" means any fund other than the city general fund. (24) "Utility" means a utility owned by a city, in whole or in part, that provides electricity, gas, water, or sewer, or any combination of them. (25) "Warrant" means an order drawn upon the city treasurer, in the absence of sufficient money in the city's depository, by an authorized officer of a city for the purpose of paying a specified amount out of the city treasury to the person named or to the bearer as money becomes available.
Utah Code § 10-3-1302 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1302
§ 10-3-1302. Purpose.
Status: in_force

The purposes of this part are to establish standards of conduct for municipal officers and employees and to require these persons to disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest between their public duties and their personal interests.
Utah Code § 10-3-709 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-709
§ 10-3-709. Repeal of conflicting provisions -- Title.
Status: in_force

(1) Such revision shall be by one ordinance embracing all ordinances of a general and permanent character preserved as changed or added to and perfected by the revision, codification and compilation and shall be a repeal of all ordinances in conflict with the revision, codification and compilation, but all ordinances then enforced shall continue in force after the revision, codification and compilation for the purpose of all rights acquired, fines, penalties and forfeitures and liabilities incurred and actions therefor. (2) The only title necessary for such ordinance shall be "an ordinance revising, codifying and compiling the general ordinances of the city or town of ____ (inserting the name of the municipality)."
Utah Code § 10-8-85.10 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-85.10
§ 10-8-85.10. Ordinances regarding co-ownership -- Prohibition on municipal ordinances restricting co-ownership models.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Co-owned home" means any residential unit that is jointly owned, in any manner or form, by any combination of individuals or entities. (b) "Residential unit" means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-8-85.4. (2) Notwithstanding Section 10-20-501 and Subsection 10-20-503(1), a municipal legislative body may not: (a) adopt or enforce a land use regulation that regulates co-owned homes differently than other residential units; or (b) use a land use regulation governing co-owned homes to fine, charge, prosecute, or otherwise punish an individual solely for the act of owning or using a co-owned home. (3) Notwithstanding Subsection (2), a legislative body may adopt and enforce land use regulations, if the regulations are applied equally to all residential units, including co-owned homes. (4) This section does not limit private individuals or associations from adopting rules or regulations governing co-owned homes. (5) Nothing in this section limits a municipality's authority to adopt or enforce regulations regarding: (a) accessory dwelling units, as defined in Section 10-20-102; (b) internal accessory dwelling units, as defined in Section 10-21-101; or (c) the rental of a residential unit for fewer than 30 days consistent with Section 10-8-85.4.
Utah Code § 10-20-608 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-608
§ 10-20-608. Municipality's acquisition of billboard by eminent domain -- Removal without providing compensation -- Limit on allowing nonconforming billboards to be rebuilt or replaced -- Validity of municipal permit after issuance of state permit.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Clearly visible" means capable of being read without obstruction by an occupant of a vehicle traveling on a street or highway within the visibility area. (b) "Highest allowable height" means: (i) if the height allowed by the municipality, by ordinance or consent, is higher than the height under Subsection (1)(b)(ii), the height allowed by the municipality; or (ii) (A) for a noninterstate billboard: (I) if the height of the previous use or structure is 45 feet or higher, the height of the previous use or structure; or (II) if the height of the previous use or structure is less than 45 feet, the height of the previous use or structure or the height to make the entire advertising content of the billboard clearly visible, whichever is higher, but no higher than 45 feet; and (B) for an interstate billboard: (I) if the height of the previous use or structure is at or above the interstate height, the height of the previous use or structure; or (II) if the height of the previous use or structure is less than the interstate height, the height of the previous use or structure or the height to make the entire advertising content of the billboard clearly visible, whichever is higher, but no higher than the interstate height. (c) "Interstate billboard" means a billboard that is intended to be viewed from a highway that is an interstate. (d) "Interstate height" means a height that is the higher of: (i) 65 feet above the ground; and (ii) 25 feet above the grade of the interstate. (e) "Noninterstate billboard" means a billboard that is intended to be viewed from a street or highway that is not an interstate. (f) "Visibility area" means the area on a street or highway that is: (i) defined at one end by a line extending from the base of the billboard across all lanes of traffic of the street or highway in a plane that is perpendicular to the street or highway; and (ii) defined on the other end by a line extending across all lanes of traffic of the street or highway in a plane that is: (A) perpendicular to the street or highway; and (B) (I) for an interstate billboard, 500 feet from the base of the billboard; or (II) for a noninterstate billboard, 300 feet from the base of the billboard. (2) (a) If a billboard owner makes a written request to the municipality with jurisdiction over the billboard to take an action described in Subsection (2)(b), the billboard owner may take the requested action, without further municipal land use approval, 180 days after the day on which the billboard owner makes the written request, unless within the 180-day period the municipality: (i) in an attempt to acquire the billboard and associated rights through eminent domain under Section 10-20-607 for the purpose of terminating the billboard and associated rights: (A) completes the procedural steps required under Title 78B, Chapter 6, Part 5, Eminent Domain, before the filing of an eminent domain action; and (B) files an eminent domain action in accordance with Title 78B, Chapter 6, Part 5, Eminent Domain; (ii) denies the request in accordance with Subsection (2)(d); or (iii) requires the billboard owner to remove the billboard in accordance with Subsection (3). (b) Subject to Subsection (2)(a), a billboard owner may: (i) rebuild, maintain, repair, or restore a billboard structure that is damaged by casualty, an act of God, or vandalism; (ii) relocate or rebuild a billboard structure, or take another measure, to correct a mistake in the placement or erection of a billboard for which the municipality issued a permit, if the proposed relocation, rebuilding, or other measure is consistent with the intent of that permit; (iii) structurally modify or upgrade a billboard; (iv) relocate a billboard into any commercial, industrial, or manufacturing zone within the municipality's boundaries, if the relocated billboard is: (A) within 5,280 feet of the billboard's previous location; and (B) no closer than 300 feet from an off-premise sign existing on the same side of the street or highway, or if the street or highway is an interstate or limited access highway that is subject to Title 72, Chapter 7, Part 5, Utah Outdoor Advertising Act, the distance allowed under that act between the relocated billboard and an off-premise sign existing on the same side of the interstate or limited access highway; or (v) make one or more of the following modifications, as the billboard owner determines, to a billboard that is structurally altered by modification or upgrade under Subsection (2)(b)(iii), by relocation under Subsection (2)(b)(iv), or by any combination of these alterations: (A) erect the billboard: (I) to the highest allowable height; and (II) as the owner determines, to an angle that makes the entire advertising content of the billboard clearly visible; or (B) install a sign face on the billboard that is at least the same size as, but no larger than, the sign face on the billboard before the billboard's relocation. (c) A modification under Subsection (2)(b)(v) shall comply with Title 72, Chapter 7, Part 5, Utah Outdoor Advertising Act, to the extent applicable. (d) A municipality may deny a billboard owner's request to relocate or rebuild a billboard structure, or to take other measures, in order to correct a mistake in the placement or erection of a billboard without acquiring the billboard and associated rights through eminent domain under Section 10-20-607, if the mistake in placement or erection of the billboard is determined by clear and convincing evidence, in a proceeding that protects the billboard owner's due process rights, to have resulted from an intentionally false or misleading statement: (i) by the billboard applicant in the application; and (ii) regarding the placement or erection of the billboard. (e) A municipality that acquires a billboard and associated rights through eminent domain under Section 10-20-607 shall pay just compensation to the billboard owner in an amount that is: (i) the value of the existing billboard at a fair market capitalization rate, based on actual annual revenue, less any annual rent expense; (ii) the value of any other right associated with the billboard; (iii) the cost of the sign structure; and (iv) damage to the economic unit described in Subsection 72-7-510(3)(b), of which the billboard owner's interest is a part. (f) If a municipality commences an eminent domain action under Subsection (2)(a)(i): (i) the provisions of Section 78B-6-510 do not apply; and (ii) the municipality may not take possession of the billboard or the billboard's associated rights until: (A) completion of all appeals of a judgment allowing the municipality to acquire the billboard and associated rights; and (B) the billboard owner receives payment of just compensation, described in Subsection (2)(e). (g) Unless the eminent domain action is dismissed under Subsection (2)(h)(ii), a billboard owner may proceed, without further municipal land use approval, to take an action requested under Subsection (2)(a), if the municipality's eminent domain action commenced under Subsection (2)(a)(i) is dismissed without an order allowing the municipality to acquire the billboard and associated rights. (h) (i) A billboard owner may withdraw a request made under Subsection (2)(a) at any time before the municipality takes possession of the billboard or the billboard's associated rights in accordance with Subsection (2)(f)(ii). (ii) If a billboard owner withdraws a request in accordance with Subsection (2)(h)(i), the court shall dismiss the municipality's eminent domain action to acquire the billboard or associated rights. (3) Notwithstanding Section 10-20-607, a municipality may require the owner of a billboard to remove the billboard without acquiring the billboard and associated rights through eminent domain if: (a) the municipality determines: (i) by clear and convincing evidence that the applicant for a permit intentionally made a false or misleading statement in the applicant's application regarding the placement or erection of the billboard; or (ii) by substantial evidence that the billboard: (A) is structurally unsafe; (B) is in an unreasonable state of repair; or (C) has been abandoned for at least 12 months; (b) the municipality notifies the billboard owner in writing that the billboard owner's billboard meets one or more of the conditions listed in Subsections (3)(a)(i) and (ii); (c) the billboard owner fails to remedy the condition or conditions within: (i) 180 days after the day on which the billboard owner receives written notice under Subsection (3)(b); or (ii) if the condition forming the basis of the municipality's intention to remove the billboard is that it is structurally unsafe, 10 business days, or a longer period if necessary because of a natural disaster, after the day on which the billboard owner receives written notice under Subsection (3)(b); and (d) following the expiration of the applicable period under Subsection (3)(c) and after providing the billboard owner with reasonable notice of proceedings and an opportunity for a hearing, the municipality finds: (i) by clear and convincing evidence, that the applicant for a permit intentionally made a false or misleading statement in the application regarding the placement or erection of the billboard; or (ii) by substantial evidence that the billboard is structurally unsafe, is in an unreasonable state of repair, or has been abandoned for at least 12 months. (4) A municipality may not allow a nonconforming billboard to be rebuilt or replaced by anyone other than the billboard's owner, or the billboard's owner acting through a contractor, within 500 feet of the nonconforming location. (5) A permit that a municipality issues, extends, or renews for a billboard remains valid beginning on the day on which the municipality issues, extends, or renews the permit and ending 180 days after the day on which a required state permit is issued for the billboard if: (a) the billboard requires a state permit; and (b) an application for the state permit is filed within 30 days after the day on which the municipality issues, extends, or renews a permit for the billboard.
Utah Code § 10-1-308 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / § 10-1-308
§ 10-1-308. Report of tax collections -- Allocation when location of taxpayer cannot be accurately determined.
Status: in_force

(1) All municipal energy sales and use taxes collected under this part shall be reported to the commission on forms that accurately identify the municipality where the taxpayer is located. (2) The commission shall make rules, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, to proportionally distribute all taxes collected if the municipality where the taxpayer is located cannot be accurately determined.
Utah Code § 10-20-204 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-204
§ 10-20-204. Notice of public hearings and public meetings to consider general plan or modifications.
Status: in_force

(1) Each municipality shall provide: (a) notice of the date, time, and place of the first public hearing to consider the original adoption or any modification of all or any portion of a general plan; and (b) notice of each public meeting on the subject. (2) Each notice of a public hearing under Subsection (1)(a) shall be at least 10 calendar days before the public hearing and shall be: (a) published for the municipality, as a class A notice under Section 63G-30-102, for at least 10 days; and (b) mailed to each affected entity. (3) Each notice of a public meeting under Subsection (1)(b) shall be at least 24 hours before the meeting and shall be published for the municipality, as a class A notice under Section 63G-30-102, for at least 24 hours.
Utah Code § 10-18-106 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / § 10-18-106
§ 10-18-106. Severability.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter or the application of any provision of this chapter is found invalid, the remainder of this chapter shall be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
Utah Code § 10-3-910 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-910
§ 10-3-910. Heads of departments and subordinate officers.
Status: in_force

(1) The administration of the police and fire departments shall consist of a chief of each department and other officers, members, employees and agents as provided by ordinance or statute. (2) The heads of the police and fire departments shall be appointed in accordance with Title 10, Chapter 3b, Forms of Municipal Government.
Utah Code § 10-3-1304 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-1304
§ 10-3-1304. Use of office for personal benefit prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section, "economic benefit tantamount to a gift" includes: (a) a loan at an interest rate that is substantially lower than the commercial rate then currently prevalent for similar loans; or (b) compensation received for a private service rendered at a rate substantially exceeding the fair market value of the service. (2) Except as provided in Subsection (4), it is an offense for an officer or municipal employee to: (a) disclose or improperly use private, controlled, or protected information acquired by reason of the officer's or municipal employee's official position or in the course of official duties in order to further substantially the officer's or municipal employee's personal economic interest or to secure special privileges or exemptions for the officer or municipal employee or for others; (b) use or attempt to use the officer's or municipal employee's official position to: (i) further substantially the officer's or municipal employee's personal economic interest; or (ii) secure special privileges for the officer or municipal employee or for others; or (c) knowingly receive, accept, take, seek, or solicit, directly or indirectly, for the officer or municipal employee or for another, a gift of substantial value or a substantial economic benefit tantamount to a gift that: (i) would tend improperly to influence a reasonable person in the person's position to depart from the faithful and impartial discharge of the person's public duties; or (ii) the person knows or that a reasonable person in that position should know under the circumstances is primarily for the purpose of rewarding the person for official action taken. (3) Subsection (2)(c) does not apply to: (a) an occasional nonpecuniary gift having a value of less than $50; (b) an award publicly presented in recognition of public services; (c) any bona fide loan made in the ordinary course of business; or (d) a political campaign contribution. (4) This section does not apply to an officer or municipal employee who engages in conduct that constitutes a violation of this section to the extent that the officer or municipal employee is chargeable, for the same conduct, under Section 76-8-105.
Utah Code § 10-8-83 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-83
§ 10-8-83. Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation.
Status: in_force

They may require any railroad or street railway company to place gates at any place along its tracks, and may designate the places where such gates shall be placed, and the nature, kind and quality of such gates.
Utah Code § 10-20-704 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-704
§ 10-20-704. Abandonment of a vested critical infrastructure materials use.
Status: in_force

(1) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials use only as provided in this section. (2) To abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials use, a critical infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with the recorder of the county in which the vested critical infrastructure materials use being abandoned is located. (3) The written declaration of abandonment under Subsection (2) shall specify the vested critical infrastructure materials use or the portion of the vested critical infrastructure materials use being abandoned.
Utah Code § 10-3-706 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-706
§ 10-3-706. Revision of ordinances.
Status: in_force

(1) The governing body by resolution may authorize and direct the mayor to appoint, with the advice and consent of the governing body, one or more persons to prepare and submit to the governing body a compilation, revision or codification of municipal ordinances. (2) The compensation for the service shall be fixed by resolution of the governing body and paid out of the municipal treasury.
Utah Code § 10-2-601 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / § 10-2-601
§ 10-2-601. Consolidation of two or more municipalities -- Certification of petition signatures -- Removal of signature.
Status: in_force

(1) The process for consolidating municipalities shall begin by filing with the county legislative bodies of the respective counties in which the municipalities are located: (a) resolutions passed by the governing bodies of the municipalities which state their intention and desire to form a consolidated municipality; or (b) petitions signed by at least 10% of the registered voters in each of the municipalities to be included with the boundaries of the consolidated municipality. (2) (a) Within three business days after the day on which a county legislative body receives a petition under Subsection (1)(b), the county legislative body shall provide the petition to the county clerk. (b) Within 14 days after the day on which a county clerk receives a petition from the county legislative body under Subsection (2)(a), the county clerk shall: (i) use the procedures described in Section 20A-1-1002 to determine whether the petition satisfies the requirements of Subsection (1)(b); (ii) certify on the petition whether each name is that of a registered voter in one of the municipalities to be included within the boundaries of the consolidated municipality; and (iii) deliver the certified petition to the county legislative body. (3) (a) A voter who signs a petition under this section may have the voter's signature removed from the petition by, no later than three business days after the day on which the county legislative body provides the petition to the county clerk, submitting to the county clerk a statement requesting that the voter's signature be removed. (b) A statement described in Subsection (3)(a) shall comply with the requirements described in Subsection 20A-1-1003(2). (c) The county clerk shall use the procedures described in Subsection 20A-1-1003(3) to determine whether to remove an individual's signature from a petition after receiving a timely, valid statement requesting removal of the signature.
Utah Code § 10-6-118 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / § 10-6-118
§ 10-6-118. Adoption of final budget -- Certification and filing.
Status: in_force

(1) Before June 30 of each fiscal period, or, in the case of a property tax rate increase under Sections 59-2-919 through 59-2-923, before September 1 of the year for which a property tax increase is proposed, the governing body shall by resolution or ordinance adopt a budget for the ensuing fiscal period for each fund for which a budget is required under this chapter. (2) The budget officer of the governing body shall certify a copy of the final budget and file the copy with the state auditor within 30 days after adoption.
Utah Code § 10-3-805 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-805
§ 10-3-805. Administrative powers in cities of the second class.
Status: in_force

The administrative powers, authority and duties in cities of the second class shall be divided into five departments which shall be: (1) Department of Public Affairs and Finances. (2) Department of Water and Waterworks. (3) Department of Public Safety. (4) Department of Streets and Public Improvements. (5) Department of Parks and Public Property.
Utah Code § 10-3-607 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-607
§ 10-3-607. Expulsion of members prohibited -- Exception for disorderly conduct.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), the governing body may not expel a member of the governing body from an open public meeting or prohibit the member from attending an open public meeting. (2) Except as provided in Subsection (3), following a two-thirds vote of the members of the governing body, the governing body may fine or expel a member of the governing body for: (a) disorderly conduct at the open public meeting; (b) a member's direct or indirect financial conflict of interest regarding an issue discussed at or action proposed to be taken at the open public meeting; or (c) a commission of a crime during the open public meeting. (3) A governing body may adopt rules or ordinances that expand the reasons or establish more restrictive procedures for the expulsion of a member from a public meeting.
Utah Code § 10-8-54 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-54
§ 10-8-54. Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes.
Status: in_force

They may prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, stoves, stovepipes, heaters, ovens, furnaces, boilers, and apparatus used in and about buildings and manufactories, and cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe condition; and may regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufacturing likely to cause fires, and may prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places.
Utah Code § 10-1-113 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / § 10-1-113
§ 10-1-113. Severability clause.
Status: in_force

If any chapter, part, section, paragraph or subsection of this title, or the application thereof is held to be invalid, the remainder of this title is not affected thereby.
Utah Code § 10-20-1102 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-1102
§ 10-20-1102. Variances.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person or entity desiring a waiver or modification of the requirements of a land use ordinance as applied to a parcel of property that he owns, leases, or in which he holds some other beneficial interest may apply to the applicable appeal authority for a variance from the terms of the ordinance. (2) (a) The appeal authority may grant a variance only if: (i) literal enforcement of the ordinance would cause an unreasonable hardship for the applicant that is not necessary to carry out the general purpose of the land use ordinances; (ii) there are special circumstances attached to the property that do not generally apply to other properties in the same zone; (iii) granting the variance is essential to the enjoyment of a substantial property right possessed by other property in the same zone; (iv) the variance will not substantially affect the general plan and will not be contrary to the public interest; and (v) the spirit of the land use ordinance is observed and substantial justice done. (b) (i) In determining whether or not enforcement of the land use ordinance would cause unreasonable hardship under Subsection (2)(a), the appeal authority may not find an unreasonable hardship unless the alleged hardship: (A) is located on or associated with the property for which the variance is sought; and (B) comes from circumstances peculiar to the property, not from conditions that are general to the neighborhood. (ii) In determining whether or not enforcement of the land use ordinance would cause unreasonable hardship under Subsection (2)(a), the appeal authority may not find an unreasonable hardship if the hardship is self-imposed or economic. (c) In determining whether or not there are special circumstances attached to the property under Subsection (2)(a), the appeal authority may find that special circumstances exist only if the special circumstances: (i) relate to the hardship complained of; and (ii) deprive the property of privileges granted to other properties in the same zone. (3) The applicant shall bear the burden of proving that all of the conditions justifying a variance have been met. (4) Variances run with the land. (5) The appeal authority may not grant a use variance. (6) In granting a variance, the appeal authority may impose additional requirements on the applicant that will: (a) mitigate any harmful affects of the variance; or (b) serve the purpose of the standard or requirement that is waived or modified.
Utah Code § 10-15-3 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / § 10-15-3
§ 10-15-3. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) (a) (i) "Intersection street" means any street which meets or crosses a pedestrian mall at a mall intersection but includes only those portions thereof on either side of the mall intersection which lie between the mall intersection and the first intersection of the intersecting street with a public street or highway open to vehicular traffic. (ii) If any portion of a pedestrian mall terminates on a street at a place thereon other than at a place of intersection with a public street or highway open to vehicular traffic, such intersecting street shall also include that portion of any street which lies between such place of termination and the first intersection of such street with the public street or highway open to vehicular traffic. (b) "Intersecting street" also includes any other street or portion of a street which the legislative body declares to be such by resolution. (2) "Legislative body" means the legislative body of the municipality. (3) "Mall intersection" means any intersection of a street constituting a part of a pedestrian mall with any street which intersection is itself part of a pedestrian mall. (4) "Municipality" includes every city or town within this state. (5) "Pedestrian mall" means one or more streets or portions thereof, on which vehicular traffic is, or is to be, restricted in whole or in part and which is, or is to be, used exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel. (6) "Street" means any public road, street, highway, alley, lane, court, way, or place of any nature open to the use of the public, excluding state highways.
Utah Code § 10-3-918 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / § 10-3-918
§ 10-3-918. Chief of police or marshal in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
Status: in_force

Subject to Subsection 10-3-913(4), the chief of police or marshal in each city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town: (1) shall: (a) exercise and perform the duties that are prescribed by the legislative body; (b) be under the direction, control, and supervision of the person or body that appointed the chief or marshal; and (c) adopt a written policy that prohibits the stopping, detention, or search of any person when the action is solely motivated by considerations of race, color, ethnicity, age, or gender; and (2) may, with the consent of the person or body that appointed the chief or marshal, appoint assistants to the chief of police or marshal.
Utah Code § 10-8-51 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / § 10-8-51
§ 10-8-51. Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment.
Status: in_force

They may provide for the punishment of tramps, street beggars, prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers and thieves, or persons who practice any game, trick or device with intent to swindle.
Utah Code § 10-20-615 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / § 10-20-615
§ 10-20-615. Specified public utility located in a municipal utility easement.
Status: in_force

A specified public utility may exercise each power of a public utility under Section 54-3-27 if the specified public utility uses an easement: (1) with the consent of a municipality; and (2) that is located within a municipal utility easement described in Subsections 10-20-102(50)(a) through (e).
Utah Code § 10-21-102 — Utah Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / § 10-21-102
§ 10-21-102. Applicability.
Status: in_force

(1) The provisions of Chapter 20, Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act, apply to this chapter. (2) The definitions in Section 10-21-101 are in addition to the definitions in Section 10-20-102, except that if there is any conflict between a definition in this chapter and a definition in Chapter 20, Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act, the definition in this chapter prevails in regard to the provisions in this chapter.