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2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 1 - General Provisions › Section 105 - Scope of chapter.

Effective 5/10/2016
10-18-105.
Scope of chapter.
(1) Nothing in this chapter authorizes any county or other political subdivision of this state to:
(a) provide:
(i) a cable television service; or
(ii) a public telecommunications service; or
(b) purchase, lease, construct, maintain, or operate a facility for the purpose of providing:
(i) a cable television service; or
(ii) a public telecommunications service.
(2) Except as provided in Subsections (3) and (4), this chapter does not apply to a municipality purchasing, leasing, constructing, or equipping facilities:
(a) that are designed to provide services within the municipality ; and
(b) that the municipality:
(i) uses for internal municipal government purposes; or
(ii) by written contract, leases, sells capacity in, or grants other similar rights to a private provider to use the facilities in connection with a private provider offering:
(A) cable television services; or
(B) public telecommunications services.
(3)
(a) As used in this Subsection (3), "municipal entity" means:
(i) a municipality; or
(ii) an entity created pursuant to an agreement:
(A) under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act; and
(B) to which a municipality is a party.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (2), a municipal entity shall comply with Subsection (3)(c) if the municipal entity purchases, leases, constructs, or equips facilities that the municipal entity by written contract leases, sells capacity in, or grants other similar rights to a private provider to use the facilities in connection with a private provider offering:
(i) cable television services; or
(ii) public telecommunications services.
(c) A municipal entity described in Subsection (3)(b) shall, with respect to an action described in Subsection (3)(b), comply with the obligations imposed on a municipality pursuant to:
(i) Section 10-18-302; and
(ii) Subsections 10-18-303(3) and (4).
(4) A municipality described in Subsection 10-18-105(2) may call an election under Section 10-18-204 with respect to the provision of public telecommunications service facilities.
Amended by Chapter 419, 2016 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 1 - General Provisions › Section 106 - Severability.

10-18-106.
Severability.
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.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 2 - Conditions for Providing Services › Section 201 - Limitations on providing a cable television and public telecommunications services.

10-18-201.
Limitations on providing a cable television and public telecommunications services.
(1) Except as provided in this chapter, a municipality may not:
(a) provide to one or more subscribers:
(i) a cable television service; or
(ii) a public telecommunications service; or
(b) for the purpose of providing a cable television service or a public telecommunications service to one or more subscribers, purchase, lease, construct, maintain, or operate any facility.
(2) For purposes of this chapter, a municipality provides a cable television service or public telecommunications service if the municipality provides the service:
(a) directly or indirectly, including through an authority or instrumentality:
(i) acting on behalf of the municipality; or
(ii) for the benefit of the municipality;
(b) by itself;
(c) through:
(i) a partnership; or
(ii) joint venture; or
(d) by contract, resale, or otherwise.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 2 - Conditions for Providing Services › Section 202 - Required steps before a municipality may provide cable television or public telecommunications services.

10-18-202.
Required steps before a municipality may provide cable television or public telecommunications services.
Before a municipality may engage or offer to engage in an activity described in Subsection 10-18-201(1), the legislative body of the municipality shall:
(1) hold a preliminary public hearing;
(2) if the legislative body elects to proceed after holding the preliminary public hearing required by Subsection (1), approve the hiring of a feasibility consultant to conduct a feasibility study in accordance with Section 10-18-203;
(3) determine whether under the feasibility study conducted under Section 10-18-203, the average annual revenues under Subsection 10-18-203(2)(f) exceed the average annual costs under Subsection 10-18-203(2)(e) by at least the amount necessary to meet the bond obligations of any bonds issued to fund the proposed cable television services or public telecommunications services:
(a) based on the feasibility study's analysis:
(i) for the first year of the study; and
(ii) the five-year projection; and
(b) separately stated with respect to:
(i) the proposed cable television services; or
(ii) the proposed public telecommunications services;
(4) if the conditions of Subsection (3) are met, hold the public hearings required by Section 10-18-203; and
(5) after holding the public hearings required by Section 10-18-203, if the legislative body of the municipality elects to proceed, adopt by resolution the feasibility study.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 3 - Operational Requirements and Limitations › Section 301 - Enterprise funds for cable television or public telecommunications services.

10-18-301.
Enterprise funds for cable television or public telecommunications services.
(1) A municipality that provides a cable television service or a public telecommunications service under this chapter:
(a) shall establish an enterprise fund to account for the municipality's operations of a cable television service or public telecommunications service;
(b) for accounting purposes only, may account for its cable television services and its public telecommunications services in a single enterprise fund under Chapter 6, Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities;
(c) shall, consistent with the requirements of Section 10-6-135, adopt separate operating and capital budgets for the municipality's:
(i) cable television services; and
(ii) public telecommunications services;
(d) may not transfer any appropriation or other balance in any enterprise fund established by the municipality under this section to another enterprise fund; and
(e) may not transfer any appropriation or other balance in any other enterprise fund established by the municipality under Chapter 6, Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities, to any enterprise fund established by the municipality under this section.
(2) The restrictions on transfers described in Subsections (1)(d) and (e) do not apply to transfers made by a municipality between other enterprise funds established by the municipality.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 3 - Operational Requirements and Limitations › Section 304 - Eminent domain.

10-18-304.
Eminent domain.
A municipality may not exercise its power of eminent domain to condemn plant and equipment of a private provider for the purpose of providing to a subscriber:
(1) a cable television service; or
(2) a public telecommunications service.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 3 - Operational Requirements and Limitations › Section 305 - Quality of service standards.

10-18-305.
Quality of service standards.
(1) A municipality that provides a cable television service or a public telecommunications service shall adopt an ordinance governing the quality of service the municipality shall provide to its subscribers.
(2) The ordinance required by Subsection (1) shall:
(a) be competitively neutral; and
(b) contain standards that are substantially similar to the standards imposed on private providers operating within the geographic boundaries of the municipality under:
(i) the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. 521, et seq.;
(ii) the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-104;
(iii)Title 54, Public Utilities;
(iv) regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission under the statutes listed in Subsections (2)(b)(i) and (ii); and
(v) rules made by the Public Service Commission of Utah under Title 54, Public Utilities.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act › Part 3 - Operational Requirements and Limitations › Section 306 - Enforcement and appeal.

10-18-306.
Enforcement and appeal.
(1) Before a person that is or is likely to have a substantial interest affected by a municipality's violation of this chapter may file an action in district court for violation of this chapter, that person shall file a written complaint with the municipality in accordance with this section.
(2)
(a) A municipality that provides a cable television service or a public telecommunications service shall enact an ordinance establishing a procedure for the filing and resolution of complaints relating to the municipality providing:
(i) a cable television service; or
(ii) a public telecommunications service.
(b) The procedure required by Subsection (2)(a) shall:
(i) permit any person described in Subsection (1) to file a complaint including:
(A) an individual subscriber; or
(B) a private provider that competes with the municipality in the geographic boundaries of the municipality;
(ii) establish an expedited process that requires within 45 days after the date the complaint is filed:
(A) that a hearing be held, unless the parties to the proceeding waive the requirement of a hearing; and
(B) the issuance of a final decision; and
(iii) provide that failure to render a decision within the time allotted shall be treated as an adverse decision for purposes of appeal.
(3) Appeal of an adverse decision from the municipality may be taken to the district court for a de novo proceeding.
Enacted by Chapter 83, 2001 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 19 - Municipal Electric Utility Carbon Emission Reduction Act › Part 2 - Renewable Energy Provisions › Section 201 - Target amount of qualifying electricity -- Renewable energy certificate -- Cost-effectiveness.

10-19-201.
Target amount of qualifying electricity -- Renewable energy certificate -- Cost-effectiveness.
(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 renewable 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.
Enacted by Chapter 374, 2008 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 19 - Municipal Electric Utility Carbon Emission Reduction Act › Part 2 - Renewable Energy Provisions › Section 202 - Renewable energy certificate -- Use to satisfy other requirements.

10-19-202.
Renewable energy certificate -- Use to satisfy other requirements.
(1) A municipal electric utility may buy, sell, trade, or otherwise transfer a renewable energy certificate issued or recognized under Section 54-17-603.
(2) For the purpose of satisfying Subsection 10-19-201(1) and the issuance of a renewable energy certificate under Section 54-17-603:
(a) a renewable energy source located in this state that derives its energy from solar photovoltaic and solar thermal energy shall be credited for 2.4 kilowatt-hours of qualifying electricity for each 1.0 kilowatt-hour generated; and
(b) if two or more municipal electric utilities jointly own a renewable energy resource, each municipal electric utility shall be credited with 1.0 kilowatt-hour of qualifying electricity for 1.0 kilowatt-hour of the renewable energy resource allocated to the municipal electric utility by contract, unless the contract otherwise provides.
(3) A renewable energy certificate:
(a) may be used only once to satisfy Subsection 10-19-201(1);
(b) may be used to satisfy Subsection 10-19-201(1) and the qualifying electricity on which the renewable energy certificate is based may be used to satisfy any federal renewable energy requirement; and
(c) may not be used if it has been used to satisfy any other state's renewable energy requirement.
Enacted by Chapter 374, 2008 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 19 - Municipal Electric Utility Carbon Emission Reduction Act › Part 3 - Administrative Provisions › Section 301 - Plans and reports.

10-19-301.
Plans and reports.
(1) A municipal electric utility shall develop and maintain a plan for implementing Subsection 10-19-201(1).
(2) A progress report concerning a plan under Subsection (1) shall be filed with the municipality's legislative body by January 1 of each of the years 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2024.
(3) The progress report under Subsection (2) shall contain:
(a) the actual and projected amount of qualifying electricity through 2025;
(b) the source of qualifying electricity;
(c) an estimate of the cost of achieving the target;
(d) a discussion of conditions impacting the renewable energy source and qualifying electricity markets; and
(e) any recommendation for a suggested legislative or program change.
(4) The plan and progress report required by Subsections (1) and (2) may include procedures that will be used by the municipal electric utility to identify and select any cost-effective renewable energy resource and qualifying electricity.
(5) By July 1, 2026, the municipal electric utility shall file a final progress report demonstrating:
(a) how Subsection 10-19-201(1) is satisfied for the year 2025; or
(b) the reason why Subsection 10-19-201(1) is not satisfied for the year 2025, if it is not satisfied.
(6) The plan and any progress report filed under this section shall be publicly available at the municipal legislative body's office.
Enacted by Chapter 374, 2008 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 19 - Municipal Electric Utility Carbon Emission Reduction Act › Part 3 - Administrative Provisions › Section 302 - Municipal authority -- Commission authority.

10-19-302.
Municipal authority -- Commission authority.
(1) The municipal legislative body may adopt procedures necessary to implement this chapter.
(2) Nothing in this chapter authorizes the commission to exercise any power over a municipal electric utility's electrical generation, demand-side management program, or other operation.
Enacted by Chapter 374, 2008 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 1 - Bonds and Warrants › Section 1 - Auditor's certificate to show obligation within debt limit.

11-1-1.
Auditor's certificate to show obligation within debt limit.
The county auditor of each county, the auditor of each city, and the clerk of each board of education in this state shall endorse a certificate upon every bond, warrant or other evidence of debt, issued pursuant to law by any such officer, that the same is within the lawful debt limit of such county, city or school district, respectively, and is issued according to law. He shall sign such certificate in his official character.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 1 - Bonds and Warrants › Section 2 - Auditors may rely on certain facts.

11-1-2.
Auditors may rely on certain facts.
Whenever a county legislative body, board of city commissioners, city council, or board of education of any such county, city, or school district shall find or declare that any appropriation or expenditure for which a warrant or warrants are to be issued was or is for interest upon the bonded debt, for salaries, or for the current expenses of such county, city, or school district, such finding or declaration shall conclusively protect the county auditor, city auditor, or clerk of the board of education of any such county, city, or school district, as to such facts, in certifying any warrant or warrants therefor to be within the lawful debt limit of such county, city, or school district.
Amended by Chapter 227, 1993 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 1 - Bonds and Warrants › Section 3 - False certificate -- Class A misdemeanor.

11-1-3.
False certificate -- Class A misdemeanor.
Any person mentioned in Section 11-1-1 who neglects to endorse any certificate as required, or who makes any certificate falsely and fraudulently, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
Amended by Chapter 178, 1986 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 1 - Bonds and Warrants › Section 4 - Sinking fund -- Investment.

11-1-4.
Sinking fund -- Investment.
The legislative body of any county, municipality, school district, or taxing unit of Utah shall invest any sinking fund created by authority of law by following the procedures and requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act.
Amended by Chapter 285, 1992 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 1 - Bonds and Warrants › Section 5 - Form, time, and place of payment -- Held in trust.

11-1-5.
Form, time, and place of payment -- Held in trust.
Whenever any county, municipality, school district or taxing unit within this state is authorized to issue and sell its bonds, they may be issued in serial form or in the form of term bonds and made payable in such manner and at such times, within legal limits, as such county, municipality, school district or taxing unit may determine. Principal and interest shall be made payable only at a duly incorporated bank or trust company operating under state or national banking laws or principal and interest may be made payable at such a bank or trust company or at the office of the treasurer of the issuer, at the option of the holder; provided, such alternative places of payment are designated in the bonds by the issuer at the time such bonds are issued.
All payments of funds either as principal or interest on any bonds issued by any county, municipality, school district or other taxing unit within this state paid to anyone other than the owner of such bonds shall be regarded and held as trust funds, and the person, firm or corporation so receiving the same shall be held as a trustee of such funds holding the same for the benefit of the owners and holders of such bonds until the same are fully paid over. Until such funds are paid over by the person, firm or corporation collecting the same, they shall be set up and held in a separate trust account and not commingled or used by the collector in any manner whatever.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 1 - Bonds and Warrants › Section 6 - Violation of act a misdemeanor.

Effective 5/8/2018
11-1-6.
Violation of act a misdemeanor.
Anyone violating the provisions of this act is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
Amended by Chapter 148, 2018 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 1 - Local authorities may designate and acquire property for playgrounds and recreational facilities.

Effective 2/27/2023
11-2-1.
Local authorities may designate and acquire property for playgrounds and recreational facilities.
The governing body of any city, town, school district, special district, special service district, or county may designate and set apart for use as playgrounds, athletic fields, gymnasiums, public baths, swimming pools, camps, indoor recreation centers, television transmission and relay facilities, or other recreational facilities, any lands, buildings or personal property owned by such cities, towns, counties, special districts, special service districts, or school districts that may be suitable for such purposes; and may, in such manner as may be authorized and provided by law for the acquisition of lands or buildings for public purposes in such cities, towns, counties, special districts, special service districts, and school districts, acquire lands, buildings, and personal property therein for such use; and may equip, maintain, operate and supervise the same, employing such play leaders, recreation directors, supervisors and other employees as it may deem proper. Such acquisition of lands, buildings and personal property and the equipping, maintaining, operating and supervision of the same shall be deemed to be for public, governmental and municipal purposes.
Amended by Chapter 16, 2023 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 2 - Entertainment facilities for citizenry.

11-2-2.
Entertainment facilities for citizenry.
Such local authorities may organize and conduct plays, games, calisthenics, gymnastics, athletic sports and games, tournaments, meets and leagues, dramatics, picture shows, pageants, festivals and celebrations, community music, clubs, debating societies, public speaking, story telling, hikes, picnics, excursions, camping and handicraft activities, and in areas so remote from regular transmission points of the large television stations that television reception is impossible without special equipment, and adequate, economical and proper television is not available to the public by private sources, said local authorities may equip and maintain television transmission and relay facilities and other forms of recreational activity that may employ the leisure time of the people in a constructive and wholesome manner.
Amended by Chapter 4, 1993 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 3 - Recreation board.

11-2-3.
Recreation board.
Authority to supervise and maintain any of such recreational facilities and activities may be vested in any existing body or board, or in a public recreation board, as the governing body of any city, town, county or school district may determine. If it is determined that such powers are to be exercised by a public recreation board, such board may be established in any city, town, county or school district and shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities of the respective local authorities under this chapter.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 4 - Number of members of board -- Selection -- Term.

11-2-4.
Number of members of board -- Selection -- Term.
(1) A recreation board shall consist of between five and seven persons.
(2)
(a) When established in a city of the first or second class two members shall be selected from the board of education of the school district therein, and when established in any county two members shall be appointed from the board of education of that county; provided, that in counties having two or more school districts one member shall be appointed from each county school district therein.
(b) In any county having a regional service area and a recreation board consisting of more than five members, one of the members shall be appointed from the regional service area.
(3)
(a) The members of the board shall be appointed by the appointing authority of the county, municipality, school district, or regional service area and shall serve for a term of five years and until their successors are appointed; and
(b) provided, that the members first appointed shall be appointed for such terms that the term of one member will expire annually thereafter except that the terms of two members may expire during the same year when more than five members are appointed.
(4) Vacancies in a board occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments for the unexpired term. The members of recreation boards shall serve without compensation.
Amended by Chapter 216, 1995 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 5 - Chairman, secretary and other officers of board.

11-2-5.
Chairman, secretary and other officers of board.
Each recreation board shall elect its own chairman and secretary, and shall appoint all other officers necessary, for a period of one year; and may adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 6 - Cooperation between school districts and cities, towns and counties.

11-2-6.
Cooperation between school districts and cities, towns and counties.
Any board of education of any school district may join with any city, town or county in purchasing, equipping, operating and maintaining playgrounds, athletic fields, gymnasiums, baths, swimming pools, television transmission and relay facilities of the type referred to in Section 11-2-2 and other recreational facilities and activities, and may appropriate money therefor.
Amended by Chapter 22, 1957 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 7 - Expenses -- Payment of -- Authority to appropriate and tax -- Licensing of television owners and users -- Collection of license fees.

11-2-7.
Expenses -- Payment of -- Authority to appropriate and tax -- Licensing of television owners and users -- Collection of license fees.
(1)
(a) All expenses incurred in the equipment, operation and maintenance of such recreational facilities and activities shall be paid from the treasuries of the respective cities, towns, counties, or school districts.
(b) Except as provided in Subsection (3), the governing bodies of the same may annually appropriate, and cause to be raised by taxation, money for such purposes.
(2) In areas so remote from regular transmission points of the large television stations that television reception is impossible without special equipment and adequate, economical and proper television is not available to the public by private sources, said local authorities may also, by ordinance, license, for the purpose of raising revenue to equip, operate and maintain television transmission and relay facilities, all users or owners of television sets within the jurisdiction of said local authorities, and may provide for the collection of the license fees by suit or otherwise and may also enforce obedience to such ordinances with such fine and imprisonment as the local authorities consider proper; provided that the punishment for any violation of such ordinances shall be by a fine not exceeding $50 or by imprisonment not exceeding one day for each $5 of said fine, if the fine is not paid.
(3) Beginning January 1, 2012, a local school board may not levy a tax in accordance with this section.
Amended by Chapter 371, 2011 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 2 - Playgrounds › Section 8 - Donations.

11-2-8.
Donations.
The governing body in any city, town, county or school district may take charge of and use any grounds, buildings or other facilities which may be offered, either temporarily or permanently, by any individual or corporation for playground and recreation purposes; and may receive donations, legacies, bequests or devises for the establishment, improvement or maintenance of recreational facilities and activities. All money so received shall, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the gift or devise, be deposited in the treasury of the city, town, county or school district to the credit of the recreation fund, and may be withdrawn only in the manner provided for the payment of money appropriated for the acquisition, improvement, operation and maintenance of playgrounds and other recreational facilities and activities.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 3 - County and Municipal Fireworks Act › Section 3.5 - Licensing of retail sellers of fireworks -- Permit required -- Fee, insurance, or bond.

11-3-3.5.
Licensing of retail sellers of fireworks -- Permit required -- Fee, insurance, or bond.
(1)
(a) A municipality or county may require a retail seller to obtain a license and pay a reasonable fee before selling class C common state-approved explosives within the jurisdiction of that municipality or county.
(b) A municipality or county may not restrict the number of licenses to be issued under this section.
(2)
(a) A municipality or county shall require:
(i) a permit to discharge all display fireworks, special effects, and flame effects performances; and
(ii) evidence that the display operator, special effects operator, or flame effects operator who will set up and discharge the display has received a license from the State Fire Marshal Division, Department of Public Safety.
(b) A municipality or county may require a fee, insurance, or a bond before issuing a permit under this Subsection (2).
Amended by Chapter 61, 2010 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 3 - County and Municipal Fireworks Act › Section 4 - Enforcement -- Seizure of fireworks sold unlawfully -- Revocation of license.

11-3-4.
Enforcement -- Seizure of fireworks sold unlawfully -- Revocation of license.
(1) Each county and municipal officer charged with the enforcement of state and municipal laws, including all fire enforcement officials and the State Fire Marshal Division of the Department of Public Safety, shall enforce this chapter and Sections 53-7-220 through 53-7-225, Utah Fireworks Act.
(2) Any official charged with enforcing this chapter and the Utah Fireworks Act may:
(a) seize display fireworks, fireworks, and unclassified fireworks that are offered for sale, sold, or in the possession of an individual in violation of this chapter or the Utah Fireworks Act; and
(b) recommend to the state fire marshall that each importer or wholesaler selling or offering to sell display fireworks, fireworks, or unclassified fireworks in violation of this chapter or the Utah Fireworks Act have his license revoked.
Amended by Chapter 234, 1993 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 3 - County and Municipal Fireworks Act › Section 8 - Conflicting local ordinances prohibited.

Effective 5/8/2018
11-3-8.
Conflicting local ordinances prohibited.
A county, city, town, or metro township may not adopt an ordinance or regulation in conflict with Sections 53-7-220 through 53-7-225.
Amended by Chapter 189, 2018 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 3 - County and Municipal Fireworks Act › Section 10 - Exemptions -- Limitation on chapter.

Effective 7/1/2023
11-3-10.
Exemptions -- Limitation on chapter.
(1) This chapter does not apply to class A, class B, and class C explosives that are not for use in Utah, but are manufactured, stored, warehoused, or in transit for destinations outside of Utah.
(2) This chapter does not supersede Section 23A-2-208, regarding use of fireworks and explosives by the Division of Wildlife Resources and federal game agents.
(3) Provided that the display operators are properly licensed as required by Section 53-7-223, municipalities and counties for the unincorporated areas within the county may conduct, permit, or regulate:
(a) exhibitions of display fireworks; or
(b) pyrotechnic displays held inside public buildings.
Amended by Chapter 34, 2023 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 3 - County and Municipal Fireworks Act › Section 11 - Sale or use of unauthorized fireworks -- Class B misdemeanor.

11-3-11.
Sale or use of unauthorized fireworks -- Class B misdemeanor.
Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
Amended by Chapter 268, 1992 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 4 - Standard Fire-Fighting Equipment › Section 2 - Duty of local governing body -- Maintenance of existing equipment.

11-4-2.
Duty of local governing body -- Maintenance of existing equipment.
(1) Each local governing body installing any completely new fire protection system shall comply with Title 53, Chapter 7, Utah Fire Prevention and Safety Act.
(2) A local governing body operating fire protection equipment may maintain, repair, replace, and extend the equipment with equipment of like character and standards.
Amended by Chapter 234, 1993 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 6 - Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers › Section 1 - Records to be kept -- Availability to peace officers.

11-6-1.
Records to be kept -- Availability to peace officers.
Pawnbrokers and dealers in secondhand goods shall keep records containing a description of all articles received by them, the amounts paid therefor or advanced thereon, a general description of the person from whom received, together with his name and address and the date of the transaction. Such records shall at all reasonable times be accessible to any peace officer who demands an inspection thereof, and any further information regarding such transaction that he may require shall be given by pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to the best of their ability. In cities of the first and the second class at the close of each day's business pawnbrokers shall mail a copy of such records to the sheriff of the county in which they are located.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 6 - Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers › Section 3 - Violation a misdemeanor.

Effective 5/8/2018
11-6-3.
Violation a misdemeanor.
A violation of any of the provisions of this chapter is a class B misdemeanor.
Amended by Chapter 148, 2018 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 6 - Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers › Section 4 - Political subdivisions may not set interest rates.

11-6-4.
Political subdivisions may not set interest rates.
No county, city, town, or other political subdivision may set the interest rates or other charges which pawnbrokers may charge.
Enacted by Chapter 55, 1985 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 7 - Fire Protection › Section 1 - Cooperation with other governmental units -- Burning permits -- Contracts.

Effective 1/1/2017
11-7-1.
Cooperation with other governmental units -- Burning permits -- Contracts.
(1) The governing body of every incorporated municipality and the board of commissioners or county council of every county shall:
(a) provide adequate fire protection within their own territorial limits; and
(b) cooperate with all contiguous counties, municipal corporations, private corporations, fire districts, state agencies, or federal governmental agencies to maintain adequate fire protection within their territorial limits.
(2) Every incorporated municipality and every county may:
(a) require that persons obtain a burning permit before starting a fire on any forest, wildland urban interface, brush, range, grass, grain, stubble, or hay land, except that a municipality or county may not require a burning permit for the burning of fence lines on cultivated lands, canals, or irrigation ditches, provided that the individual notifies the nearest fire department of the approximate time that the burning will occur;
(b) maintain and support a fire-fighting force or fire department for its own protection;
(c) contract to furnish fire protection to any proximate county, municipal corporation, private corporation, fire district, state agency, or federal agency;
(d) contract to receive fire protection from any contiguous county, municipal corporation, private corporation, fire district, state agency, or federal governmental agency;
(e) contract to jointly provide fire protection with any contiguous county, municipal corporation, private corporation, fire district, state agency, or federal governmental agency; or
(f) contract to contribute toward the support of a fire-fighting force, or fire department in any contiguous county, municipal corporation, private corporation, fire district, state agency, or federal governmental agency in return for fire protection.
Amended by Chapter 174, 2016 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 7 - Fire Protection › Section 2 - Contract -- Requirements -- Time in effect.

11-7-2.
Contract -- Requirements -- Time in effect.
Any contract made pursuant to Section 11-7-1 shall:
(1) Be in writing.
(2) Set forth in detail the extent of the fire protection to be afforded by the party or parties contracting to furnish fire protection.
(3) Set forth in detail the amount and method of payment to be made by the party or parties.
(4) Be in effect for at least one year but not more than five years.
Enacted by Chapter 19, 1957 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 7 - Fire Protection › Section 3 - Privileges and immunities from liability extend to departments fighting fires outside territorial limits under contract.

11-7-3.
Privileges and immunities from liability extend to departments fighting fires outside territorial limits under contract.
All the privileges and immunities from liability which surround the activities of any county or municipal corporation fire-fighting force or fire department when performing its functions within the governmental unit's territorial limits shall apply to the activities of that governmental unit's fire-fighting force or department while furnishing fire protection outside its territorial limits under any contract pursuant to Section 11-7-1.
Enacted by Chapter 19, 1957 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 7 - Fire Protection › Section 4 - Death or injury of fireman while fighting fire outside territorial limits.

11-7-4.
Death or injury of fireman while fighting fire outside territorial limits.
The effect of the death or injury of any fireman who is killed or injured outside the territorial limits of the county or municipality where he is a member of the fire-fighting force or fire department and while that force or department is functioning pursuant to any contract made under Section 11-7-1 shall be the same as if he were killed or injured while that force or department was functioning within its own territorial limits, and his death shall be considered in the line of duty.
Enacted by Chapter 19, 1957 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 8 - Sewage and Culinary Water Systems › Section 1 - Contracts for joint use, operation, and ownership of sewage lines and sewage treatment and disposal systems.

11-8-1.
Contracts for joint use, operation, and ownership of sewage lines and sewage treatment and disposal systems.
Any county, incorporated municipality, improvement district, taxing district or other political subdivision of the state of Utah which now or hereafter owns and operates sanitary sewer facilities (each of which is hereinafter referred to as a "public owner") is hereby granted authority:
(1) To enter into long-term contracts with any other public owner or public owners pursuant to which sewage lines, sewage treatment and sewage disposal facilities, or any part thereof, of one or more public owners shall be available for collection, treatment and disposal, or any part thereof, of the sewage collected by one or more other public owners, or of sewage collected jointly, pursuant to such terms and conditions and for such consideration as may be provided in such contracts. Annual payments due by any such public owner for services received under any such contract may not be construed to be an indebtedness of such public owner within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory restriction, and no election shall be necessary for the authorization of such contract. Any public owner or owners so contracting to make available sewage collection, sewage treatment and disposal facilities, or any part thereof, may in any such contract agree to make available to such other public owner or owners a specified part of its facilities, without regard to its future need of such specified part for its own use, and may in such contract agree to increase the capacity of its facilities from time to time in the future if necessary in order to take care of its own needs and to perform its obligations to the other parties to such contract.
(2) To construct or otherwise acquire joint interests in, and to own jointly, sewer lines, sewage treatment and disposal facilities, or any part thereof for their common use. To such end, any public owner may sell to any other public owner or owners a partial interest or interests in any of its sewer lines, sewage treatment and disposal facilities. Any public owner may issue its bonds for the purpose of acquiring such joint interest in sewer lines, sewage treatment and disposal facilities, or any part thereof, whether such joint interest is to be acquired through the construction of new facilities or the purchase of such interest in existing facilities, which bonds may be issued under the provisions and in the manner provided in any available law authorizing the issuance of bonds for the acquisition of sanitary sewer facilities by such public owner.
(3) To operate jointly with any other public owner or owners, sewer lines, sewage treatment and disposal facilities, or any part thereof, which they may own jointly.
Amended by Chapter 378, 2010 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 8 - Sewage and Culinary Water Systems › Section 2 - State loans for sewage treatment facilities -- Rules of Water Quality Board.

11-8-2.
State loans for sewage treatment facilities -- Rules of Water Quality Board.
The Department of Environmental Quality is authorized to negotiate loans to political subdivisions and municipal authorities for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of municipal sewage treatment facilities. All loans shall be made pursuant to rules made by the Water Quality Board and not exceed 25% of the total cost of the facility. The loans shall be authorized by the political subdivision involved pursuant to Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act, or other applicable law of this state pertaining to indebtedness of political subdivisions.
Amended by Chapter 105, 2005 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units › Chapter 8 - Sewage and Culinary Water Systems › Section 3 - Department of Environmental Quality to negotiate loans for sewage facilities.

Effective 5/4/2022
11-8-3.
Department of Environmental Quality to negotiate loans for sewage facilities.
(1) The Department of Environmental Quality may negotiate loans from the Retirement Systems Fund, State Land Principal Fund, or any state fiduciary fund which has sums available for loaning, as these funds are defined in Title 51, Chapter 5, Funds Consolidation Act, not to exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year for the purposes of providing the funding for the loans provided for in Section 11-8-2.
(2) The terms of any borrowing and repayment shall be negotiated between the borrower and the lender consistent with the legal duties of the lender.
Amended by Chapter 451, 2022 General Session