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UT Code § 11-36a-704 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 36a - Impact Fees Act|Part 7 - Challenges|Section 704 - Mediation.

11-36a-704. Mediation.    (1) In addition to the methods of challenging an impact fee under Section 11-36a-701, a specified public agency may require a local political subdivision or private entity to participate in mediation of any applicable impact fee.     (2) To require mediation, the specified public agency shall submit a written request for mediation to the local political subdivision or private entity.     (3) The specified public agency may submit a request for mediation under this section at any time, but no later than 30 days after the day on which an impact fee is paid.     (4) Upon the submission of a request for mediation under this section, the local political subdivision or private entity shall:   (a) cooperate with the specified public agency to select a mediator; and     (b) participate in the mediation process.      Enacted by Chapter 47, 2011 General Session
UT Code § 11-38-101 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 38 - Quality Growth Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 101 - Title.

11-38-101. Title.  This chapter is known as the "Quality Growth Act."  Enacted by Chapter 24, 1999 General Session
UT Code § 11-38-202 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 38 - Quality Growth Act|Part 2 - Quality Growth Commission|Section 202 - Commission duties and powers -- No regulatory authority -- Rulemaking -- Criteria.

 Effective 5/5/2021  11-38-202. Commission duties and powers -- No regulatory authority -- Rulemaking -- Criteria.    (1) The commission shall:   (a) make recommendations to the Legislature on how to define more specifically quality growth areas within the general guidelines provided to the commission by the Legislature;     (b) advise the Legislature on growth management issues;     (c) make recommendations to the Legislature on refinements to this chapter;     (d) conduct a review in 2002 and each year thereafter to determine progress statewide on accomplishing the purposes of this chapter, and give a report of each review to the Political Subdivisions Interim Committee of the Legislature by November 30 of the year of the review;     (e) administer the program as provided in this chapter;     (f) assist as many local entities as possible, at their request, to identify principles of growth that the local entity may consider implementing to help achieve the highest possible quality of growth for that entity;     (g) fulfill other responsibilities imposed on the commission by the Legislature; and     (h) fulfill all other duties imposed on the commission by this chapter.       (2) The commission may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of equipment or personal property belonging to the program, the proceeds from which shall return to the fund.     (3) The commission may not exercise any regulatory authority.     (4) In carrying out the commission's powers and duties under this chapter, the commission shall adopt ranking criteria that is substantially similar to the ranking criteria used by the Agriculture Conservation Easement Program and Agriculture Land Easement as determined by the Natural Resources Conservation Service under the United States Department of Agriculture.    Amended by Chapter 181, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 11-38-203 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 38 - Quality Growth Act|Part 2 - Quality Growth Commission|Section 203 - Commission may provide assistance to local entities.

 Effective 7/1/2021  11-38-203. Commission may provide assistance to local entities.  The commission may:  (1) from funds appropriated to the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget by the Legislature for this purpose, grant money to local entities to help them obtain the technical assistance they need to:   (a) conduct workshops or public hearings or use other similar methods to obtain public input and participation in the process of identifying for that entity the principles of quality growth referred to in Subsection 11-38-202(1)(f);     (b) identify where and how quality growth areas could be established within the local entity; and     (c) develop or modify the local entity's general plan to incorporate and implement the principles of quality growth developed by the local entity and to establish quality growth areas; and       (2) require each local entity to which the commission grants money under Subsection (1) to report to the commission, in a format and upon a timetable determined by the commission, on that local entity's process of developing quality growth principles and on the quality growth principles developed by that local entity.    Amended by Chapter 382, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 11-38-301 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 38 - Quality Growth Act|Part 3 - LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Program|Section 301 - LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Program.

11-38-301. LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Program.    (1) There is created a program entitled the "LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Program."     (2) Funding for the program shall be a line item in the budget of the Quality Growth Commission. The line item shall be nonlapsing.    Amended by Chapter 368, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 11-38-304 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 38 - Quality Growth Act|Part 3 - LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Program|Section 304 - Commission to report annually.

 Effective 5/9/2017  11-38-304. Commission to report annually.  The commission shall submit an annual report to the Infrastructure and General Government and Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittees:  (1) specifying the amount of each disbursement from the program;     (2) identifying the recipient of each disbursement and describing the project for which money was disbursed; and     (3) detailing the conditions, if any, placed by the commission on disbursements from the program.    Amended by Chapter 51, 2017 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-101 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 101 - Title.

11-42-101. Title.  This chapter is known as the "Assessment Area Act."  Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-103 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 103 - Limit on effect of this chapter.

 Effective 3/28/2017  11-42-103. Limit on effect of this chapter.    (1) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to authorize a local entity to provide an improvement or service that the local entity is not otherwise authorized to provide.     (2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1), a local entity may provide an environmental remediation activity that the local entity finds or determines to be in the public interest.    Amended by Chapter 470, 2017 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-104 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 104 - Waiver by property owners -- Requirements.

11-42-104. Waiver by property owners -- Requirements.    (1) The owners of property to be assessed within an assessment area may waive:   (a) the prepayment period under Subsection 11-42-411(6);     (b) a procedure that a local entity is required to follow to:   (i) designate an assessment area; or     (ii) levy an assessment; or       (c) a period to contest a local entity action.       (2) Each waiver under this section shall:   (a) be in writing;     (b) be signed by all the owners of property to be assessed within the assessment area;     (c) describe the prepayment period, procedure, or contest period being waived;     (d) state that the owners waive the prepayment period, procedure, or contest period; and     (e) state that the owners consent to the local entity taking the required action to waive the prepayment period, procedure, or contest period.      Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-105 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 105 - No limitation on other local entity powers -- Conflict with other statutory provisions.

11-42-105. No limitation on other local entity powers -- Conflict with other statutory provisions.    (1) This chapter may not be construed to limit a power that a local entity has under other applicable law to:   (a) make an improvement or provide a service;     (b) create a district;     (c) levy an assessment or tax; or     (d) issue bonds or refunding bonds.       (2) If there is a conflict between a provision of this chapter and any other statutory provision, the provision of this chapter governs.    Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-107 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 107 - Accepting donation or contribution.

11-42-107. Accepting donation or contribution.  A local entity may accept any donation or contribution from any source for the payment or the making of an improvement in an assessment area.  Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-108 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 108 - Utility connections before paving or repaving is done -- Failure to make connection.

11-42-108. Utility connections before paving or repaving is done -- Failure to make connection.    (1) The governing body may require:   (a) that before paving or repaving is done within an assessment area, all water, gas, sewer, and underground electric and telecommunications connections be made under the regulations and at the distances from the street mains to the line of the property abutting on the street to be paved or repaved that the local entity prescribes by resolution or ordinance; and     (b) the water company owning the water pipe main, the gas company owning the gas pipe main, and the electric or telecommunications company owning the underground electric or telecommunications facilities to make the connections.       (2) Upon the failure of a water company, gas company, or electric or telecommunications company to make a required connection:   (a) the local entity may cause the connection to be made; and     (b)   (i) the cost that the local entity incurs in making the connection shall be deducted from the amount of any debt the local entity owes to the company; and     (ii) the local entity may not pay a bill from the company until all the cost has been offset as provided in Subsection (2)(b)(i).        Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-109 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 109 - Severability.

11-42-109. Severability.  A court's invalidation of any provision of this chapter may not be considered to affect the validity of any other provision of this chapter.  Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-201 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 2 - Designating an Assessment Area|Section 201 - Resolution or ordinance designating an assessment area -- Classifications within an assessment area -- Preconditions to adoption of a resolution or ordinance.

 Effective 5/5/2021  11-42-201. Resolution or ordinance designating an assessment area -- Classifications within an assessment area -- Preconditions to adoption of a resolution or ordinance.    (1)   (a) Subject to the requirements of this part, a governing body of a local entity intending to levy an assessment on property to pay some or all of the cost of providing improvements benefitting the property, performing operation and maintenance benefitting the property, or conducting economic promotion activities benefitting the property shall adopt a resolution or ordinance designating an assessment area.     (b) A designation resolution or designation ordinance described in Subsection (1)(a) may divide the assessment area into multiple classifications to allow the governing body to:   (i) levy a different level of assessment; or     (ii) use a different assessment method in each classification to reflect more fairly the benefits that property within the different classifications is expected to receive because of the proposed improvement, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities.       (c) The boundaries of a proposed assessment area:   (i) may include property that is not intended to be assessed; and     (ii) except for an assessment area within a public infrastructure district created under Title 17D, Chapter 4, Public Infrastructure District Act, may not be coextensive or substantially coterminous with the boundaries of the local entity.         (2) Before adopting a designation resolution or designation ordinance described in Subsection (1)(a), the governing body of the local entity shall:   (a) give notice as provided in Section 11-42-202;     (b) receive and consider all protests filed under Section 11-42-203; and     (c) hold a public hearing as provided in Section 11-42-204.      Amended by Chapter 314, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-203 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 2 - Designating an Assessment Area|Section 203 - Protests.

 Effective 5/12/2015  11-42-203. Protests.    (1) An owner of property that is proposed to be assessed and who does not want the property to be included in an assessment area may, within 60 days after the day of the hearing described in Subsection 11-42-204(1), file a written protest:   (a) against:   (i) the designation of the assessment area;     (ii) the inclusion of the owner's property in the proposed assessment area;     (iii) the proposed improvements to be acquired or constructed; or     (iv) if applicable, the inclusion of an unassessed benefitted government property, the benefit for which the other assessed properties will collectively pay; or       (b) protesting:   (i) whether the assessment meets the requirements of Section 11-42-409; or     (ii) any other aspect of the proposed designation of an assessment area.         (2) Each protest under Subsection (1) shall:   (a) describe or otherwise identify the property owned by the person filing the protest; and     (b) include the signature of the owner of the property.       (3) An owner may withdraw a protest at any time before the expiration of the 60-day period described in Subsection (1) by filing a written withdrawal with the governing body.     (4) If the governing body intends to assess property within the proposed assessment area by type of improvement or classification, as described in Section 11-42-201, and the governing body has clearly noticed its intent, the governing body shall:   (a) in determining whether adequate protests have been filed, aggregate the protests by the type of improvement or by classification; and     (b) apply to and calculate for each type of improvement or classification the threshold requirements of adequate protests.       (5) The failure of an owner of property within the proposed assessment area to file a timely written protest constitutes a waiver of any objection to:   (a) the designation of the assessment area;     (b) any improvement to be provided to property within the assessment area;     (c) the inclusion of the owner's property within the assessment area;     (d) the fact, but not amount, of benefit to the owner's property; and     (e) the inclusion of an unassessed benefitted government property in the assessment area.       (6) The local entity shall post the total and percentage of the written protests it has received on the local entity's website, or, if no website is available, at the local entity's place of business at least five days before the public meeting described in Section 11-42-206.    Amended by Chapter 396, 2015 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-204 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 2 - Designating an Assessment Area|Section 204 - Hearing.

 Effective 5/12/2015  11-42-204. Hearing.    (1) On the date and at the time and place specified in the notice under Section 11-42-202, the governing body shall hold a public hearing.     (2)   (a) The governing body:   (i) subject to Subsection (2)(a)(ii), may continue the public hearing from time to time to a fixed future date and time; and     (ii) may not hold a public hearing that is a continuance less than five days before the deadline for filing protests described in Section 11-42-203.       (b) The continuance of a public hearing does not restart or extend the protest period described in Subsection 11-42-203(1).       (3) At the public hearing, the governing body shall hear all:   (a) objections to the designation of the proposed assessment area or the improvements proposed to be provided in the assessment area;     (b) objections to whether the assessment will meet the requirements of Section 11-42-409;     (c) objections to the inclusion within the assessment area of an unassessed benefitted government property, the benefit for which the other assessed properties will collectively pay; and     (d) persons desiring to be heard.      Amended by Chapter 396, 2015 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-205 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 2 - Designating an Assessment Area|Section 205 - Unimproved property.

11-42-205. Unimproved property.    (1)   (a) Before a local entity may designate an assessment area in which more than 75% of the property proposed to be assessed consists of unimproved property, and designation of the assessment area would require that the local entity issue bonds, the local entity shall obtain:   (i) an appraisal:   (A) of the unimproved property;     (B) from an appraiser who is a member of the Appraisal Institute;     (C) addressed to the local entity or a financial institution; and     (D) verifying that the market value of the property, after completion of the proposed improvements, is at least three times the amount of the assessments proposed to be levied against the unimproved property; or       (ii) the most recent taxable value of the unimproved property from the assessor of the county in which the unimproved property is located, verifying that the taxable value of the property, after completion of the proposed improvements, is at least three times the amount of the assessments proposed to be levied against the unimproved property.       (b) If the owner of the unimproved property has entered into a construction loan acceptable to the local entity to finance the facilities to be constructed or installed on the unimproved property, the market value of the unimproved property, as determined under Subsection (1)(a)(i), may include, at the local entity's option:   (i) the principal amount of the construction loan; or     (ii) the value of the unimproved property with the facilities to be financed by the construction loan, as determined by an appraisal of:   (A) the unimproved property; and     (B) the facilities proposed to be constructed.           (2) With respect to the designation of an assessment area described in Subsection (1)(a), the local entity may require:   (a) financial information acceptable to the governing body with respect to the owner's ability to pay the proposed assessments;     (b) a financial institution's commitment securing, to the governing body's satisfaction, the owners' obligation to pay the proposed assessments; or     (c) a development plan, approved by a qualified, independent third party, describing the plan of development and the financial feasibility of the plan, taking into account growth trends, absorption studies, and other demographic information applicable to the unimproved property.       (3) Information that an owner provides to a local entity under Subsection (2)(a) is not a record for purposes of Title 63G, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act.    Amended by Chapter 388, 2011 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-208 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 2 - Designating an Assessment Area|Section 208 - Recording notice of deletion if property is deleted from an assessment area.

11-42-208. Recording notice of deletion if property is deleted from an assessment area.  If, after adoption of a designation resolution or ordinance under Section 11-42-206, a local entity deletes property from the assessment area, the local entity shall record a notice of deletion in a form that includes the legal description and tax identification number of the property and otherwise complies with applicable recording statutes.  Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 11-42-302 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units|Chapter 42 - Assessment Area Act|Part 3 - Contracts for Improvements|Section 302 - Contracts for work in an assessment area -- Sources of payment -- Payments as work progresses.

11-42-302. Contracts for work in an assessment area -- Sources of payment -- Payments as work progresses.    (1) A contract for work in an assessment area or for the purchase of property required to make an improvement in an assessment area may require the contract obligation to be paid from proceeds from the sale of assessment bonds, interim warrants, or bond anticipation notes.     (2)   (a) To the extent that a contract is not paid from the sources stated in Subsection (1), the local entity shall advance funds to pay the contract obligation from other legally available money, according to the requirements of the contract.     (b) A local entity may reimburse itself for an amount paid from its general fund or other funds under Subsection (2)(a) from:   (i) the proceeds from the sale of assessment bonds, interim warrants, or bond anticipation notes; or     (ii) assessments or improvement revenues that are not pledged for the payment of assessment bonds, interim warrants, or bond anticipation notes.       (c) A local entity may not reimburse itself for costs of making an improvement that are properly chargeable to the local entity or for which an assessment may not be levied.       (3)   (a) A contract for work in an assessment area may provide for payments to the contractor as the work progresses.     (b) If a contract provides for periodic payments:   (i) periodic payments may not exceed 90% of the value of the work done to the date of the payment, as determined by estimates of the project engineer; and     (ii) a final payment may be made only after the contractor has completed the work and the local entity has accepted the work.       (c) If a local entity retains money payable to a contractor as the work progresses, the local entity shall retain or withhold and release the money as provided in Section 13-8-5.      Enacted by Chapter 329, 2007 General Session