Opinion ID: 2636718
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The PUD Act's Enforcement Provision

Text: The PUD Act's general enforcement provision, section 24-67-106(1), supports our interpretation of the Planning Act's relationship to the PUD Act. This provision provides as follows: [T]he provisions of the plan relating to the use of land and the location of common open space shall run in favor of the county or municipality and shall be enforceable at law or in equity by the county or municipality without limitation on any power or regulation otherwise granted by law. § 24-67-106(1) (emphasis added). The trial court cited this provision for the proposition that the General Assembly expressly disclaimed any effect county enforcement authority may have on powers or regulations granted by law to other political subdivisions. We agree with the trial court that this language, read within the statutory context as a whole, evinces legislative intent that a county's enforcement authority is circumscribed by another political subdivision's override authority, as codified at section 30-28-110(1)(c). See Romanoff, 126 P.3d at 188. A contrary interpretation would interfere with the District's statutory obligation to provide fire protection services, see § 32-1-103(7), a result we cannot effectuate absent a contrary provision enacted by the General Assembly.