reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
UT Code § 67-4-16 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 4 - Treasurer|Section 16 - State financial advisor -- Duties -- Conflict of interest restrictions.

 Effective 7/1/2021  67-4-16. State financial advisor -- Duties -- Conflict of interest restrictions.    (1) The state treasurer may hire a state financial advisor on a fee-for-service basis.     (2) The state financial advisor shall advise the state treasurer, the executive director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, the director of the Division of Finance, the director of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management, and the Legislature and its staff offices on the issuance of bonds and other debt, and on all other public debt matters generally.     (3) The financial advisor may assist in the preparation of the official statement, represent the state's creditworthiness before credit rating agencies, and assist in the preparation, marketing, or issuance of public debt.     (4)   (a) The state financial advisor or the firm that the advisor represents may not negotiate to underwrite debt issued by the state of Utah for which he has provided financial advisor services.     (b) The state financial advisor may enter a competitive bid, either for his own account or in cooperation with others, in response to a call for public bids for the sale of state debt.       (5)   (a) Fees directly related to the preparation, marketing, or issuance of public debt, including ordinary and necessary expenses, may be paid from the debt proceeds.     (b) Fees for other services shall be paid from the state treasurer's budget.      Amended by Chapter 382, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 67-4-17 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 4 - Treasurer|Section 17 - Federal/state cash transfers.

67-4-17. Federal/state cash transfers.    (1)   (a) The state treasurer and the Division of Finance shall enter into an agreement with the United States Secretary of the Treasury that establishes procedures and requirements for implementing the United States Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990.     (b) The agreement shall stipulate that:   (i) the time elapsed between the transfer of funds from the United States Treasury and the redemption of warrants shall be minimized; and     (ii) if the state:   (A) deposits federal funds before the time funds are paid out of the state treasury for the redemption of warrants issued for federal programs, the Division of Finance may pay to the United States Treasury, out of interest earnings on the funds, an interest amount as required by federal regulation; or     (B) disburses its own funds for federal programs, the Division of Finance shall bill the federal government for interest from the time state funds are paid out to redeem warrants until the federal funds are received.           (2) To the degree allowed by federal regulation, all direct costs of calculating the interest may be:   (a) deducted from any interest payments made to the United States Treasury; or     (b) included in any billings to the United States Treasury.      Enacted by Chapter 195, 1991 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-1.1 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 1.1 - Written opinion to the Legislature -- Rebuttable presumption.

 Effective 5/8/2018  67-5-1.1. Written opinion to the Legislature -- Rebuttable presumption.    (1) When the Legislature or either house requests the attorney general's written legal opinion in accordance with Subsection 67-5-1(7):   (a) the attorney general shall, applying concepts from the Rules of Professional Conduct contained in the Supreme Court Rules of Professional Practice, identify any potential conflicts of interest in providing the attorney general's legal opinion to the Legislature;     (b) if the attorney general identifies a potential conflict of interest under Subsection (1)(a), the attorney general shall, as soon as practicable after the identification:   (i) ensure that the attorney general's office provides each entity or individual involved in the potential conflict competent, privileged, and objective advice or representation by establishing:   (A) confidentiality procedures; and     (B) staffing divisions or other structural or administrative safeguards to screen attorneys participating in the preparation of the attorney general's opinion from participation on behalf of any other entity or individual involved in the potential conflict; and       (ii) provide written notice to each entity or individual involved in the potential conflict that describes the screening procedures that the attorney general establishes; and       (c) after complying with Subsections (1)(a) and (b), the attorney general shall provide the attorney general's opinion:   (i) within 30 days after the day on which the requester makes the request for the opinion; or     (ii) by a date upon which the attorney general and the requester agree.         (2) There is a presumption that:   (a) the attorney general's reasonable compliance with Subsections (1)(a) and (b) satisfies any ethical or professional obligation arising from the potential conflict of interest; and     (b) with adequate screening safeguards and procedures in place, the attorney general has an attorney-client relationship with each entity or individual involved in the potential conflict of interest.       (3)   (a) The attorney general shall comply in good faith with the requirement to provide the opinion in accordance with Subsection 67-5-1(7) and this section.     (b) The attorney general may not invoke the potential conflict of interest or attorney-client privilege as grounds to withhold or refuse to provide the legal opinion required in Subsection 67-5-1(7) and this section.     (c) The Legislature or either house may petition the Utah Supreme Court for an extraordinary writ to obtain the legal opinion if the attorney general does not provide the opinion within the time period described in Subsection (1)(c).      Enacted by Chapter 473, 2018 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-1.2 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 1.2 - Local investigation assistance.

 Effective 5/12/2020  67-5-1.2. Local investigation assistance.  The attorney general may:   (1) assist or intervene in a local investigation only if:   (a) the local law enforcement agency requests assistance; or     (b) the county or district attorney requests assistance; and       (2) provide Rapid DNA assistance for a local investigation in accordance with Section 53-10-403.6 upon request of and as authorized by, both the investigating agency and the county or district attorney.    Enacted by Chapter 415, 2020 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-1.5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 1.5 - Special duties -- Employment of staff.

 Effective 5/8/2018  67-5-1.5. Special duties -- Employment of staff.    (1) The attorney general may undertake special duties and projects as follows:   (a) employment of child protection services investigators under Section 67-5-16;     (b) administration of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force under Section 67-5-20;     (c) administration of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit under Section 67-5-21;     (d) administration of the Identity Theft Reporting Information System (IRIS) Program under Section 67-5-22;     (e) administration of the Attorney General Crime and Violence Prevention Fund under Section 67-5-24; and     (f) administration of the Mortgage and Financial Fraud Unit under Section 67-5-30.       (2) As permitted by the provisions of this chapter, the attorney general may employ or contract with investigators, prosecutors, and necessary support staff to fulfill the special duties undertaken under this section.    Amended by Chapter 24, 2018 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-3 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 3 - "Agency" defined -- Performance of legal services for agencies -- Billing.

 Effective 5/8/2018  67-5-3. "Agency" defined -- Performance of legal services for agencies -- Billing.    (1) As used in this act, "agency" means a department, division, agency, commission, board, council, committee, authority, institution, other entity within the state government of Utah, or a large public transit district as defined in Section 17B-2a-802.     (2)   (a) The attorney general may assign a legal assistant to perform legal services for any agency of state government.     (b) The attorney general shall bill that agency for the legal services performed, if:   (i) the agency billed receives federal funds to pay for the legal services rendered;     (ii) the agency collects funds from any other source in the form of fees, costs, interest, fines, penalties, forfeitures, or other proceeds reserved or designated for the payment of legal fees sufficient to pay for all or a portion of the legal services rendered; or     (iii) the agency is a large public transit district as defined in Section 17B-2a-802.       (c) An agency may deduct any unreimbursed costs and expenses incurred by the agency in connection with the legal services rendered.      Amended by Chapter 424, 2018 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-4 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 4 - Interaccount billings included in budget -- Payment of staff members.

 Effective 5/10/2016  67-5-4. Interaccount billings included in budget -- Payment of staff members.    (1) The attorney general shall include in his annual budget all interaccount billings and pay directly out of his funds all members of his staff, whether housed in his offices or not.     (2) The attorney general may operate the Office of the Attorney General or any portion of the Office of the Attorney General as an internal service fund agency in accordance with Section 63J-1-410 for legal services that the Office of the Attorney General provides.    Amended by Chapter 120, 2016 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 5 - Hiring of legal counsel for agencies -- Costs.

67-5-5. Hiring of legal counsel for agencies -- Costs.  Except where specifically authorized by the Utah Constitution, or statutes, no agency shall hire legal counsel, and the attorney general alone shall have the sole right to hire legal counsel for each such agency. Where the Legislature has provided by statute for separate agency counsel, no such counsel may act as an assistant attorney general nor as a special assistant attorney general unless the attorney general shall so authorize. Unless he hires such legal counsel from outside his office, the attorney general shall remain the sole legal counsel for that agency. If outside counsel is hired for an agency, then the costs of any services to be rendered by this counsel shall be approved by the attorney general before these costs are incurred. The attorney general shall approve all billing statements from outside counsel and shall pay the full costs of this counsel unless the agency by legislative appropriation or in the form of costs, fees, fines, penalties, forfeitures or proceeds reserved or designated for the payment of legal fees receives from any other source the equivalent cost or a portion thereof, in which case the attorney general may bill the agency for the services; provided, the agency may deduct any unreimbursed costs and expenses incurred by the agency in connection with the legal service rendered.  Amended by Chapter 76, 1982 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-6 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 6 - Attorney General Career Service Act -- Citation.

67-5-6. Attorney General Career Service Act -- Citation.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Attorney General Career Service Act."  Enacted by Chapter 185, 1973 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-7 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 7 - Establishment of career service system.

 Effective 7/1/2021  67-5-7. Establishment of career service system.    (1) The purpose of this chapter is to establish a career service system for employees of the Office of the Attorney General that will attract and retain employees of proven ability and experience who will devote their full time to the service of the state.     (2) The Office of the Attorney General may adopt policies necessary to implement this chapter, including personnel and work policies different from those made by the Division of Human Resource Management.    Amended by Chapter 344, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-8 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 8 - Eligibility for career service status.

67-5-8. Eligibility for career service status.    (1)   (a) The attorney general has sole authority to determine who may be employed with the Office of the Attorney General.     (b) An employee of the state or any of its departments or agencies has no claim or right to a position in the attorney general's office by virtue of that employment.       (2)   (a) An employee of the Office of the Attorney General shall be placed in a career service status if:   (i) for an employee who is an attorney, the attorney is a member in good standing of the Utah State Bar Association; and     (ii) except as provided in Subsection (3), the employee has been employed by the Office of the Attorney General as a probationary employee for a period of:   (A) at least one year but no more than 18 months; or     (B) in the case of investigators, at least 18 months, but no more than two years.         (b) An employee now employed by the attorney general's office in career service may not be terminated under this chapter except for cause.       (3)   (a) The attorney general shall determine whether an employee should be granted career service status.     (b) If, at the end of the probationary period established under Subsection (2), the attorney general determines that an employee should be granted career service status, the attorney general shall notify the employee in writing of that decision and place a copy of the notification in the employee's personnel file.     (c) If the attorney general determines that career service status should not be granted, the attorney general may either terminate the employee or extend the probationary period for a period not to exceed one year.     (d) The attorney general shall notify the employee in writing of that decision and place a copy of the notification in the employee's personnel file.     (e) An employee terminated under this section has no appeal rights under this chapter.      Amended by Chapter 101, 2012 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-9 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 9 - Reassignment of career status employees -- Additional compensation for managerial assignments -- Employment of special assistant attorneys general -- Termination of employees -- Salary increases.

67-5-9. Reassignment of career status employees -- Additional compensation for managerial assignments -- Employment of special assistant attorneys general -- Termination of employees -- Salary increases.  This chapter does not affect the authority of the attorney general to:  (1) assign and reassign employees in a career status to different positions on his staff. The salary of an employee reassigned to a different position shall not be decreased by reason of reassignment; except that if the employee reassigned occupies the position of chief deputy attorney general, the salary may be reduced by not more than 15% upon the assignment to a different position;     (2) develop a plan for additional compensation for career status employees who accept managerial assignments within the office. The provisions of Subsection (1) notwithstanding, the attorney general may discontinue any additional compensation if the employee no longer holds a managerial assignment. Additional compensation provided under this section shall be determined by the attorney general pursuant to the plan developed by the Office of the Attorney General. If the employee no longer holds a managerial assignment, and the attorney general decides to discontinue any additional compensation, the reduction may not place the employee at a salary below where the employee would be through normal salary increases if the employee had not been in a managerial position;     (3) employ special assistant attorneys general, who shall not be subject to this chapter, to represent the state in particular lawsuits or to handle particular legal matters for the state;     (4) terminate the employment of any employee of the Office of the Attorney General who is not in a career service status; or     (5) establish the salary or determine salary increases of any employee under this chapter.    Amended by Chapter 166, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-10 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 10 - Career status attorneys as full-time employees -- Completion of outside law practice.

67-5-10. Career status attorneys as full-time employees -- Completion of outside law practice.    (1) Attorneys in a career status shall be full-time employees and shall not engage in the private practice of law and shall not receive any fee for legal services rendered to any person, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity other than the state or the county in which the person holds office or by whom the person is employed. The practice of law prohibited by this subsection does not include pro bono service.     (2) Attorneys on probationary status who have not been granted career service status may, in the discretion of the attorney general, be granted permission to complete or handle legal matters previously begun before employment with the attorney general's office, but may not begin new matters once employed. Once career service status is conferred, the attorney is bound by the provisions of Subsection (1).     (3) The provisions of this section shall not apply to special assistant attorneys general retained on a fee basis to render services in connection with a single case or a related series of cases.    Amended by Chapter 199, 1994 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-11 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 11 - Employee accepting appointment to state position exempt from merit provisions -- Reinstatement in career status.

 Effective 7/1/2021  67-5-11. Employee accepting appointment to state position exempt from merit provisions -- Reinstatement in career status.    (1) An employee in a career status accepting appointment to a position in state government which is exempt from the merit provisions of Title 63A, Chapter 17, Utah State Personnel Management Act, shall notify the attorney general in writing. Upon termination of the appointment, unless discharged for cause, the employee, through written request of reinstatement made to the attorney general within 30 days from the effective date of termination from the appointment, shall be reinstated in a career status in the attorney general's office at a salary not less than that which he was receiving at the time of his appointment, and the time spent in the other position shall be credited toward seniority in the career service. Reinstatement shall be made no later than 60 days after the written notification required by this Subsection (1) or 60 days after the effective date of termination from the employee's appointive position, whichever is later. The position and assignment to which the employee shall return shall be determined by the attorney general.     (2)   (a) The Office of the Attorney General shall establish and maintain a separate seniority list for each employee category, which categories may include attorneys, investigators, paralegals, secretaries, and others.     (b) An employee of the Office of the Attorney General with less seniority than an employee in the same category entitled to be reinstated under this section holds his position subject to any reinstatement provided by Subsection (1).      Amended by Chapter 345, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-13 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 13 - Limitations on political activities by career status employees.

67-5-13. Limitations on political activities by career status employees.    (1) An employee in a career status may not, while in a pay status, be a state or federal officer in any partisan political party organization or in any statewide partisan political campaign. The employee, however, may be an officer or delegate in a partisan political party organization at a county or inferior level or a delegate at a state or national level.     (2) An employee in career status may not be a candidate for any partisan political office, but upon application to the attorney general the employee shall be granted a leave of absence without pay but without loss of existing seniority to participate in a partisan political campaign either as an officer or as a candidate. Time spent during the political leave shall not be counted for seniority purposes as being in service. For the purposes of this section, an employee is not considered to be a candidate until the primary elections have been held.     (3) An employee in career status may not engage in political activity during the hours of employment, nor may any person solicit political contributions from any employee in career status during hours of employment or through state facilities or in any manner impose assessments on them for political purposes; but nothing in this section shall preclude voluntary contributions to a candidate or a political party.     (4) Partisan political activity shall not be a basis for employment, promotion, demotion, or dismissal. Any violation of this section may lead to disciplinary action against the employee, which may consist of reprimand, suspension, demotion, or termination as determined by the attorney general.     (5) This section shall not be construed to permit partisan political activity by any employee in career status who is prevented or restricted from engaging in this political activity by the provisions of any federal act or the rules and regulations promulgated under it.    Amended by Chapter 166, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 67-5-15 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 67 - State Officers and Employees|Chapter 5 - Attorney General|Section 15 - Records of the attorney general.

67-5-15. Records of the attorney general.    (1) A record provided to the Office of the Attorney General by a client governmental entity shall be considered a record of the client governmental entity for purposes of Title 63G, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act, if the client governmental entity retains a copy of the record.     (2) Notwithstanding Subsection 63G-2-201(5), records may be exchanged between the Office of the Attorney General and a client governmental entity, without meeting the requirements of Section 63G-2-206 provided that they are used only for the purpose of representing the client governmental entity.    Amended by Chapter 382, 2008 General Session