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2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 18 - Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage.

10-8-18.
Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage.
(1) They may construct, purchase or lease and maintain canals, ditches, artesian wells and reservoirs, may appropriate, purchase or lease springs, streams or sources of water supply for the purpose of providing water for irrigation, domestic or other useful purposes; may prevent all waste of water flowing from artesian wells, and if necessary to secure sources of water supply, may purchase or lease land; they may also purchase, acquire or lease stock in canal companies and water companies for the purpose of providing water for the city and the inhabitants thereof.
(2) If any payment on a contract with a private person, firm, or corporation to construct canals, ditches, artesian wells, or reservoirs is retained or withheld, it shall be retained or withheld and released as provided in Section 13-8-5.
Amended by Chapter 365, 1999 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 19 - Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent.

Effective 5/8/2018
10-8-19.
Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent.
(1) Whenever a city is acting as distributing agent of water, not the property of the corporation, outside of or within the corporate limits of such city, upon written petition of the owners of the water, the city may increase the supply of water that the petitioners own by any means provided in Section 10-8-18.
(2)
(a) To increase the supply of water under Subsection (1), the city may levy and collect from the owners of the water a tax not exceeding the sum per acre of land owned as agreed upon and designated in the petition.
(b) The city shall appropriate the tax collected under Subsection (2)(a) exclusively to increase the supply of water under Subsection (1), except as is necessary to pay the expense of levying and collecting the tax.
(3)
(a) Until the city collects the tax described in Subsection (2), the unpaid tax is a political subdivision lien, as that term in defined in Section 11-60-102, upon the owner's water rights and the land that the water irrigates, in accordance with Title 11, Chapter 60, Political Subdivision Lien Authority.
(b) If the lien amount is not paid in full in a given year:
(i) by September 15, the city shall certify any unpaid amount to the treasurer of the county in which the liened property is located; and
(ii) the county treasurer shall include the certified amount on the property tax notice required by Section 59-2-1317 for that year.
Amended by Chapter 197, 2018 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 20 - Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage.

10-8-20.
Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage.
(1) They may contract with and authorize any person, company or association to construct gas works, electric or other lighting works within the city, and give such persons, company or association the privilege of furnishing light for the public buildings, streets, sidewalks and alleys of the city for any length of time not exceeding three years.
(2) If any payment on a contract with a private person, firm, or corporation to construct gas works, electric or other lighting works within the city is retained or withheld, it shall be retained or withheld and released as provided in Section 13-8-5.
Amended by Chapter 365, 1999 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 21 - Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires.

10-8-21.
Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires.
They may provide for the lighting of streets and the erection of necessary appliances and lamp posts; may regulate the sale and use of gas, natural gas and electric or other lights and electric power within the city, and regulate the inspection of meters therefor; may prohibit or regulate the erection of telegraph, telephone or electric wire poles in the public grounds, streets or alleys, and the placing of wires thereon; and may require the removal from the public grounds, streets or alleys of any or all such poles, and the placing underground of any or all telegraph, telephone or electric wires.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 23 - Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice.

10-8-23.
Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice.
They may regulate and control the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder or thereover; and they may require the owner or occupant, or the agent of any owner or occupant, of property to remove all weeds and noxious vegetation from such property, and in front thereof to the curb line of the street, and to keep the sidewalks in front of such property free from litter, snow, ice and obstructions.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 24 - Litter in streets.

10-8-24.
Litter in streets.
They may regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage or any offensive matter in, and prevent injury or obstruction to, any street, sidewalk, avenue, alley, park or public ground.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 26 - Signs and advertising material.

10-8-26.
Signs and advertising material.
They may regulate or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks, public buildings and grounds for signs, signposts, awnings, horse troughs or racks, or for posting handbills or advertisements.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 27 - Placards and handbills.

10-8-27.
Placards and handbills.
They may regulate or prohibit the exhibition, distribution or carrying of placards or handbills on the streets, public grounds or sidewalks.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 30 - Traffic regulations.

10-8-30.
Traffic regulations.
They may regulate the movement of traffic on the streets, sidewalks and public places, including the movement of pedestrians as well as of vehicles, and the cars and engines of railroads, street railroads and tramways, and may prevent racing and immoderate driving or riding.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 33 - Railroads -- Tracks and franchises.

10-8-33.
Railroads -- Tracks and franchises.
They may permit, regulate or prohibit the locating, constructing or laying of the tracks of any railroad, or tramway in any street, alley or public place; and may by ordinance grant franchises to railroad and street railroad companies, and to union railroad depot companies, to lay, maintain and operate in any street or part or parts of streets or other public places tracks therefor, but such permission may not be exclusive or for a longer time than 100 years.
Amended by Chapter 378, 2010 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 34 - Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal.

10-8-34.
Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal.
They may provide for or change the location, grade or crossing of any railroad; and declare a nuisance and take up and remove, or cause to be taken up and removed, the tracks of any railroad or street railway company which shall have been laid upon the streets of the city and which such railway company has failed to operate with cars for public use for a period of nine months after the laying thereof.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 35 - Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads.

10-8-35.
Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads.
They may require railroad companies to fence their respective railroads or any portion of the same, and to construct cattle guards, crossings of streets and public roads, and keep the same in repair within the limits of the corporation.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 36 - Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks.

10-8-36.
Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks.
They may require railroad companies to keep flagmen at railroad crossings of streets, or otherwise provide protection against injury to persons or property; may compel railroad and street railroad companies to raise or lower their tracks to conform to any grade which at any time may be established by the city, so that such tracks may be crossed at any place on any street, alley or highway; may compel railway companies to make and keep open, and keep in repair, ditches, drains, sewers and culverts along and under their tracks, so that the natural or artificial drainage of adjacent property may not be impaired.
Amended by Chapter 378, 2010 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 37 - Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage.

10-8-37.
Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage.
(1) They may construct and keep in repair bridges, viaducts and tunnels, and regulate the use thereof.
(2) If any payment on a contract with a private person, firm, or corporation to construct bridges, viaducts, or tunnels is retained or withheld, it shall be retained or withheld and released as provided in Section 13-8-5.
Amended by Chapter 365, 1999 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 38 - Drainage and sewage systems -- Construction regulation and control -- Retainage -- Mandatory hookup -- Charges for use -- Collection of charges -- Service to tenants -- Failure to pay for service -- Service outside municipality.

10-8-38.
Drainage and sewage systems -- Construction regulation and control -- Retainage -- Mandatory hookup -- Charges for use -- Collection of charges -- Service to tenants -- Failure to pay for service -- Service outside municipality.
(1)
(a) Boards of commissioners, city councils, and boards of trustees of cities and towns may construct, reconstruct, maintain, and operate, sewer systems, sewage treatment plants, culverts, drains, sewers, catch basins, manholes, cesspools, and all systems, equipment, and facilities necessary to the proper drainage, sewage, and sanitary sewage disposal requirements of the city or town and regulate the construction and use thereof.
(b) If any payment on a contract with a private person, firm, or corporation to construct or reconstruct sewer systems, sewage treatment plants, culverts, drains, sewers, catch basins, manholes, cesspools, and other drainage and sewage systems is retained or withheld, it shall be retained or withheld and released as provided in Section 13-8-5.
(2)
(a) In order to defray the cost of constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, or operating a sewer system or sewage treatment plant, a municipality may:
(i) require connection to the sewer system if the sewer is available and within 300 feet of the property line of a property with a building used for human occupancy; and
(ii) make a reasonable charge for the use of the sewer system.
(b) A municipality operating a waterworks system and a sewer system or sewage treatment plant may:
(i) make one charge for the combined use of water and the services of the sewer system or sewage treatment plant; and
(ii) adopt an ordinance requiring a property owner desiring water and sewer service to submit a written application, signed by the owner or the owner's authorized agent, agreeing to pay, according to the ordinance enacted by the municipality, for the water and sewer service furnished the owner.
(c)
(i) If a person fails to connect to the sewer when connection is required under Subsection (2)(a)(i) or fails to pay for the sewer service as required under applicable municipal ordinances, then the municipality may cause the water to be shut off from the premises until the person has:
(A) hooked up to the sewer at the person's own expense; or
(B) paid in full for all sewer service.
(ii) A municipality may not use an owner's failure to pay for sewer service furnished to the owner's property as a basis for not furnishing water to the property after ownership of the property is transferred to a subsequent owner.
(d) A municipality may sell and deliver water or sewer services to others beyond the limits of the municipality from the surplus capacity of the municipality's waterworks or sewer system.
Amended by Chapter 316, 2004 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 41 - Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications.

10-8-41.
Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications.
(1) Boards of commissioners and city councils of cities may suppress and prohibit the keeping of disorderly houses, houses of ill fame or assignation, or houses kept by, maintained for, or resorted to or used by, one or more persons for acts of perversion, lewdness, or prostitution within the limits of the city and within three miles of the outer boundaries thereof, and may prohibit resorting thereto for any of the purposes aforesaid; they may also make it unlawful for any person to commit or offer or agree to commit an act of sexual intercourse for hire, lewdness, or moral perversion within the city, or for any person to secure, induce, procure, offer, or transport to any place within the city any person for the purpose of committing an act of sexual intercourse for hire, lewdness, or moral perversion, or for any person to receive or direct or offer or agree to receive or direct any person into any place or building within the city for the purpose of committing an act of sexual intercourse for hire, lewdness, or moral perversion, or for any person to aid, abet, or participate in the commission of any of the foregoing; and they may also suppress and prohibit gambling houses and gambling, lotteries and all fraudulent devices and practices, and all kinds of gaming, playing at dice or cards, and other games of chance, and the sale, distribution, or exhibition of obscene or lewd publications, prints, pictures, or illustrations.
(2)
(a) A woman's breast feeding, including breast feeding in any place where the woman otherwise may rightfully be, does not under any circumstance constitute an obscene or lewd act, irrespective of whether or not the breast is covered during or incidental to feeding.
(b) Boards of commissioners and city councils of cities may not prohibit a woman's breast feeding in any location where she otherwise may rightfully be, irrespective of whether the breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast feeding.
Amended by Chapter 131, 1995 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 42 - Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc.

10-8-42.
Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc.
They may prohibit, except as provided by law, any person from knowingly having in his possession any intoxicating liquor, and the manufacture, sale, keeping or storing for sale, offering or exposing for sale, importing, carrying, transporting, advertising, distributing, giving away, exchanging, dispensing or serving of intoxicating liquors.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 43 - Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc.

10-8-43.
Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc.
They may establish markets and market houses, and provide for the regulation and use thereof, and provide for the place and the manner of sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables and all other provisions, and regulate the selling of the same.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 44 - Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection.

10-8-44.
Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection.
They may provide for and regulate the inspection of meats, fruit, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, flour, meal and all other provisions, and provide for the inspection, measurement or graduation of any merchandise, manufacture or commodity, and appoint the necessary officers therefor.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 44.5 - Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination.

10-8-44.5.
Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination.
(1) A municipality may not regulate the dissemination of nutritional information or the content required to be placed on a menu, menu board, or food tag by a restaurant, eating establishment, or other food facility.
(2) An ordinance or regulation that violates Subsection (1) is void.
Enacted by Chapter 236, 2009 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 44.6 - Regulation of drive-through facilities.

Effective 5/8/2018
10-8-44.6.
Regulation of drive-through facilities.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Business" means a private enterprise carried on for the purpose of gain or economic profit.
(b)
(i) "Business lobby" means a public area, including a lobby, dining area, or other area accessible to the public where business is conducted within a place of business.
(ii) "Business lobby" does not include the area of a business where drive-through service is conducted.
(c) "Land use application" means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-9a-103.
(d)
(i) "Motor vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle, including a motorcycle, intended primarily for use and operation on the highways.
(ii) "Motor vehicle" does not include an off-highway vehicle.
(e) "Motorcycle" means a motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the operator and designed to travel on not more than two tires.
(f) "Off-highway vehicle" means any snowmobile, all-terrain type I vehicle, all-terrain type II vehicle, or all-terrain type III vehicle.
(2) A municipality may not withhold a business license, deny a land use application, or otherwise require a business that has a drive-through service as a component of its business operations to:
(a) allow a person other than a person in a motorized vehicle to use the drive-through service; or
(b) offer designated hours of the day that a customer is accommodated and business is conducted in the business lobby that are the same as or exceed the hours of the day that a customer is accommodated and business is conducted in the drive-through service.
Amended by Chapter 166, 2018 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 45 - Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing.

10-8-45.
Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing.
They may provide for the inspection, sealing and use of proper weights, measures, computing scales, and all weighing and measuring devices indicating the numerical value as well as weight or quantity.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 46 - Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners.

10-8-46.
Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners.
They may regulate the construction, repair and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps, sewers, gutters and plumbing, and provide for a board of examiners to examine into the fitness and qualifications of persons following the plumbing trade, and may prescribe what qualifications are necessary for persons following said trade.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 47 - Intoxication -- Fights -- Disorderly conduct -- Assault and battery -- Petit larceny -- Riots and disorderly assemblies -- Firearms and fireworks -- False pretenses and embezzlement -- Sale of liquor, narcotics, tobacco products, electronic cigarette products, or nicotine products to minors -- Possession of controlled substances -- Treatment of alcoholics and narcotics or drug addicts.

Effective 7/1/2020
10-8-47.
Intoxication -- Fights -- Disorderly conduct -- Assault and battery -- Petit larceny -- Riots and disorderly assemblies -- Firearms and fireworks -- False pretenses and embezzlement -- Sale of liquor, narcotics, tobacco products, electronic cigarette products, or nicotine products to minors -- Possession of controlled substances -- Treatment of alcoholics and narcotics or drug addicts.
(1) A municipal legislative body may:
(a) prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dog fights, cockfights, prize fights, bullfights, and all disorderly conduct and provide against and punish the offenses of assault and battery and petit larceny;
(b) restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances, or disorderly assemblies in any street, house, or place in the city;
(c) regulate and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks in accordance with Section 53-7-225, or any other dangerous or combustible material;
(d) provide against and prevent the offense of obtaining money or property under false pretenses and the offense of embezzling money or property in the cases when the money or property embezzled or obtained under false pretenses does not exceed in value the sum of $500;
(e) prohibit the sale, giving away, or furnishing of narcotics or alcoholic beverages to an individual younger than 21 years old; or
(f) prohibit the sale, giving away, or furnishing of a tobacco product, an electronic cigarette product, or a nicotine product as those terms are defined in Section 76-10-101 to an individual younger than 21 years old.
(2) A city may:
(a) by ordinance, prohibit the possession of controlled substances as defined in the Utah Controlled Substances Act or any other endangering or impairing substance, provided the conduct is not a class A misdemeanor or felony; and
(b) provide for treatment of alcoholics, narcotic addicts, and other individuals who are addicted to the use of drugs or intoxicants such that an individual substantially lacks the capacity to control the individual's use of the drugs or intoxicants, and judicial supervision may be imposed as a means of effecting the individual's rehabilitation.
Amended by Chapter 302, 2020 General Session
Amended by Chapter 347, 2020 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 47.5 - Knives regulated by state.

10-8-47.5.
Knives regulated by state.
(1) As used in this section, "knife" means a cutting instrument that includes a sharpened or pointed blade.
(2) The authority to regulate a knife is reserved to the state except where the Legislature specifically delegates responsibility to a municipality.
(3)
(a) Unless specifically authorized by the Legislature or, subject to Subsection (3)(b), a municipal ordinance with a criminal penalty, a municipality may not enact or enforce an ordinance or a regulation pertaining to a knife.
(b) A municipality may not enact an ordinance with a criminal penalty pertaining to a knife that is:
(i) more restrictive than a state criminal penalty pertaining to a knife; or
(ii) has a greater criminal penalty than a state penalty pertaining to a knife.
Enacted by Chapter 272, 2011 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 49 - Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging.

10-8-49.
Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging.
They may arrest and fine or set to work on the streets or elsewhere all vagrants, mendicants and persons found in the city without visible means of support or some legitimate business, and may establish and maintain municipal lodging and eating houses.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 50 - Disturbing the peace -- Public intoxication -- Fighting -- Obscene language -- Disorderly conduct -- Lewd behavior -- Interference with officers -- Trespass.

10-8-50.
Disturbing the peace -- Public intoxication -- Fighting -- Obscene language -- Disorderly conduct -- Lewd behavior -- Interference with officers -- Trespass.
(1) Boards of commissioners and city councils of cities may provide for the punishment of any person or persons for:
(a) disturbing the peace or good order of the city;
(b) disturbing the peace of any person or persons;
(c) disturbing any lawful assembly;
(d) public intoxication;
(e) challenging, encouraging, or engaging in fighting;
(f) using obscene or profane language in a place or under circumstances which could cause a breach of the peace or good order of the city;
(g) engaging in indecent or disorderly conduct;
(h) engaging in lewd or lascivious behavior or conduct in the city; and
(i) interfering with any city officer in the discharge of his duty.
(2) Boards of commissioners and city councils of cities may provide for the punishment of trespass and such other petty offenses as the board of commissioners or city council may consider proper.
(3)
(a) A woman's breast feeding, including breast feeding in any location where she otherwise may rightfully be, does not under any circumstance constitute a lewd or indecent act, irrespective of whether or not the breast is covered during or incidental to feeding.
(b) Boards of commissioners and city councils of cities may not prohibit a woman's breast feeding in any location where she otherwise may rightfully be, irrespective of whether the breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast feeding.
Amended by Chapter 131, 1995 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 51 - Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment.

10-8-51.
Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment.
They may provide for the punishment of tramps, street beggars, prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers and thieves, or persons who practice any game, trick or device with intent to swindle.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 52 - Buildings -- Fire limits -- Removal and destruction of buildings violating ordinance.

10-8-52.
Buildings -- Fire limits -- Removal and destruction of buildings violating ordinance.
They may define fire limits and prescribe limits within which no building shall be constructed except of brick, stone or other incombustible material, without permission, and may cause the destruction or removal of any building constructed or repaired in violation of any ordinance, and cause all buildings and enclosures which may be in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition or removed.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 53 - Fire escapes -- Construction -- Building exits -- Fire extinguishers.

10-8-53.
Fire escapes -- Construction -- Building exits -- Fire extinguishers.
They may prescribe the manner of constructing stone, brick and other buildings, and the construction and maintenance of fire escapes; may cause all buildings used for public purposes to be provided with sufficient and ample means of exit and entrance, and to be supplied with necessary and appropriate appliances for the extinguishment of fire; may prevent the overcrowding thereof, and regulate the placing and use of seats, scenery, curtains, blinds, screens, or other appliances therein.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 53.5 - Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only.

10-8-53.5.
Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only.
(1) Subject to Subsection (2), a municipality may not enforce an ordinance, rule, or regulation requiring the installation or maintenance of a carbon monoxide detector in a residential dwelling against anyone other than the occupant of the dwelling.
(2) Subsection (1) may not be construed to affect:
(a) a building permit applicant's obligation to comply with a building code that requires the installation of a carbon monoxide detector as part of new construction; or
(b) a municipality's ability to require a building permit applicant to comply with a building code that requires the installation of a carbon monoxide detector as part of new construction.
Enacted by Chapter 304, 2009 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 54 - Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes.

10-8-54.
Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes.
They may prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, stoves, stovepipes, heaters, ovens, furnaces, boilers, and apparatus used in and about buildings and manufactories, and cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe condition; and may regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufacturing likely to cause fires, and may prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 55 - Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations.

10-8-55.
Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations.
They may, except as otherwise provided by law, provide for the organization and support of a fire department, procure fire engines, hooks, ladders, buckets, hose and other apparatus, organize fire engine and hook and ladder companies, prescribe duties, rules and regulations for the government thereof, with such penalty as they may deem proper, and make all necessary appropriations therefor.
Amended by Chapter 19, 1957 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 55.5 - Prohibition of flat response fee.

10-8-55.5.
Prohibition of flat response fee.
(1) A municipality, or a person who contracts with a municipality to provide emergency services:
(a) may not impose a flat fee, or collect a flat fee, from an individual involved in a traffic incident; and
(b) may only charge the individual for the actual cost of services provided in responding to the traffic incident, limited to:
(i) medical costs for:
(A) transporting an individual from the scene of a traffic accident; or
(B) treatment of a person injured in a traffic accident;
(ii) repair to damaged public property, if the individual is legally liable for the damage;
(iii) the cost of materials used in cleaning up the traffic accident, if the individual is legally liable for the traffic accident; and
(iv) towing costs.
(2) If a municipality, or a person who contracts with a municipality to provide emergency services, imposes a charge on more than one individual for the actual cost of responding to a traffic incident, the municipality or person contracting with the municipality shall apportion the charges so that it does not receive more for responding to the traffic incident than the actual response cost.
Enacted by Chapter 230, 2011 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 56 - Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires.

10-8-56.
Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires.
They may regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gas, gasoline, benzine, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive substances or materials, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 57 - Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers.

10-8-57.
Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers.
They may provide for the inspection and may regulate the use of steam boilers, provide for the examination, regulation and licensing of stationary engineers and others having charge or control of stationary engines, motors, boilers or steam or power generating apparatus, or elevators, within the corporate limits of the city.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 58 - Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance.

10-8-58.
Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance.
The governing body of a city or town may:
(1) establish, erect, and maintain city jails, houses of correction, and workhouses for the temporary confinement, not to exceed 72 hours, of persons convicted of violating any city ordinances;
(2) make rules for the government of them;
(3) appoint necessary jailers and keepers; and
(4) use the county correctional facilities, including the county jail, for the confinement or punishment of offenders on the following conditions:
(a) a city or town may use the county correctional facilities without payment of compensation or reimbursement for incarceration costs or costs associated with booking of offenders in county correctional facilities;
(b) subject to any conditions that are imposed by law; and
(c) with the consent of the county legislative body which may include, without limitation, the allocation or rationing of correctional facility capacity and prohibition of booking for classes of offenses or offenders. These limitations shall be applied equally to all entities using the county correctional facilities.
(5) If consent is given for the use of the county correctional facilities, the sheriff, at the sheriff's discretion, may assign offenders to county correctional facilities or programs or transfer offenders between facilities or programs.
(6) Nothing contained in this section shall:
(a) preclude cities, towns, and counties from executing written agreements containing terms or conditions for the use of the county jail; or
(b) invalidate any agreements entered into prior to July 1, 2004.
Amended by Chapter 353, 2007 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 60 - Nuisances.

10-8-60.
Nuisances.
They may declare what shall be a nuisance, and abate the same, and impose fines upon persons who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 62 - Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.

Effective 5/13/2014
10-8-62.
Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.
The city legislative body may:
(1) purchase, hold, and pay for lands within or without the corporate limits for the burial of the dead, and all necessary grounds for hospitals;
(2) have and exercise police jurisdiction over those lands, and over any cemetery used by the inhabitants of the city;
(3) survey, plat, map, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve, manage, and operate public burial and cemetery grounds;
(4) convey cemetery lots owned by the city, and pass ordinances for the protection and governing of these grounds consistent with Title 8, Chapter 5, Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots;
(5) contract for the care and improvement of cemeteries and cemetery lots, and for any compensation for the care and improvement;
(6) receive deposits for the care of lots and invest the deposits by following the procedures and requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act; and
(7) pay the cost of the care from any proceeds from the investment.
Amended by Chapter 189, 2014 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 63 - Burial of dead -- Vital statistics.

Effective 5/13/2014
10-8-63.
Burial of dead -- Vital statistics.
They may regulate the burial of the dead, consistent with Title 8, Chapter 5, Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots, the registration of births and deaths, direct the returning and keeping of bills of mortality, and impose penalties on physicians, sextons, and others for any default therein.
Amended by Chapter 189, 2014 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 65 - Regulation of dogs -- Service animals permitted.

Effective 5/3/2023
10-8-65.
Regulation of dogs -- Service animals permitted.
(1) Subject to Section 18-2-101, a municipality may:
(a) license, tax, regulate, or prohibit the keeping of dogs; and
(b) authorize the destruction, sale, or other disposal of a dog if the dog is at large contrary to ordinance.
(2)
(a) As used in this Subsection (2):
(i) "Retired service animal" means a dog that:
(A) at one time was a service animal for the current owner; and
(B) no longer provides service animal services for the owner because of the dog's age or other factors limiting the dog's service capability.
(ii) "Service animal" means a dog that:
(A) is used by a law enforcement agency;
(B) is specially trained or is in training for law enforcement work; and
(C) assists a law enforcement agency in the performance of law enforcement duties.
(b) If a municipality adopts a limit as to the number of dogs a person may keep, the municipality shall allow a person to keep a service animal, a retired service animal, or both in addition to that limit.
Amended by Chapter 419, 2023 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 66 - Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction.

10-8-66.
Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction.
They may direct the location and regulate the management and construction of packing houses, dairies, tanneries, canneries, renderies, bone factories, slaughterhouses, butcher shops, soap factories, foundries, breweries, distilleries, livery stables and blacksmith shops in and within one mile of the limits of the corporation.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 67 - Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment.

10-8-67.
Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment.
They may prohibit any offensive, unwholesome business or establishment in and within one mile of the limits of the corporation, compel the owner of any pigsty, privy, barn, corral, sewer or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place to cleanse, abate or remove the same, and may regulate the location thereof.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 69 - Conduct that interferes with or impedes traffic.

10-8-69.
Conduct that interferes with or impedes traffic.
(1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), the governing body of a city or town may prohibit or regulate conduct on a highway or sidewalk if the conduct interferes with or impedes traffic, including:
(a) rolling a hoop;
(b) playing ball;
(c) flying a kite;
(d) riding a bicycle or tricycle; or
(e) any other conduct or activity that interferes with traffic.
(2) A governing body of a city or town may not prohibit or regulate conduct under Subsection (1) if the prohibition or regulation is inconsistent with or conflicts with any provision in Title 41, Chapter 6a, Traffic Code.
Amended by Chapter 360, 2013 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 70 - Lumberyards and combustible materials.

10-8-70.
Lumberyards and combustible materials.
They may regulate or prohibit the keeping of any lumberyard, and the placing or piling or selling of any lumber, timber, wood or other combustible material within the fire limits of the city.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 71 - Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage.

10-8-71.
Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage.
(1) They may purchase, construct, lease, rent, manage and maintain any system or part of any system of waterworks, hydrants and supplies of water, telegraphic or other police or fire signals, and pass all ordinances, penal or otherwise, that shall be necessary for the full protection, maintenance, management and control of the property so leased, purchased or constructed.
(2) If any payment on a contract with a private person, firm, or corporation to construct all or part of any waterworks system is retained or withheld, it shall be retained or withheld and released as provided in Section 13-8-5.
Amended by Chapter 365, 1999 General Session
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 72 - Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance.

10-8-72.
Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance.
They may establish, maintain and regulate free public libraries and reading rooms, as provided by law, and may perpetuate such free libraries and reading rooms as may have been heretofore established in the city.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 75 - Destitute children.

10-8-75.
Destitute children.
They may authorize the taking, and provide for the safekeeping and education for such periods of time as may be expedient, for all children who are destitute of proper parental care.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 76 - Noise abatement -- Street performances.

10-8-76.
Noise abatement -- Street performances.
They may prevent the ringing of bells, blowing of horns and bugles, crying of goods by auctioneers and others, and the making of other noises, for the purpose of business, amusement or otherwise, and prevent all performances and devices tending to the collection of persons on the streets or sidewalks of the city.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 78 - Official bonds and reports.

10-8-78.
Official bonds and reports.
They may require all municipal officers and agents, elected or appointed, to give bond and security for the faithful performance of their duties, and require from every officer of the city at any time a report in detail of all transactions in his office or any matters connected therewith.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 79 - Creating offices -- Filling vacancies.

10-8-79.
Creating offices -- Filling vacancies.
They may create any office they may deem necessary for the good government of the city, and provide for filling vacancies in elective and appointive offices, and prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of all officers of the city, except as otherwise provided by law.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 81 - Social clubs and athletic associations.

10-8-81.
Social clubs and athletic associations.
They may regulate all social clubs, recreational associations, athletic associations and kindred associations, whether incorporated or not, which maintain club rooms or regular meeting rooms within the corporate limits of the city.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 82 - Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks.

10-8-82.
Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks.
They may require the tracks of any railroad or street railway company to be taken up and removed which shall have been laid upon the streets or highways of the city, and which remain in the streets or highways contrary to the terms of the franchise of the company, or which are declared by the governing body a nuisance, or which such company has failed to operate for a period of nine months prior to the time when such nuisance shall be declared, and shall have the power to declare any of the acts specified in this section a nuisance.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 83 - Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation.

10-8-83.
Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation.
They may require any railroad or street railway company to place gates at any place along its tracks, and may designate the places where such gates shall be placed, and the nature, kind and quality of such gates.
No Change Since 1953
2023 Utah Code › Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code › Chapter 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities › Part 1 - General Powers › Section 84 - Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties.

10-8-84.
Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties.
(1) The municipal legislative body may pass all ordinances and rules, and make all regulations, not repugnant to law, necessary for carrying into effect or discharging all powers and duties conferred by this chapter, and as are necessary and proper to provide for the safety and preserve the health, and promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, and convenience of the city and its inhabitants, and for the protection of property in the city.
(2) The municipal legislative body may enforce obedience to the ordinances with fines or penalties in accordance with Section 10-3-703.
Amended by Chapter 323, 2000 General Session