Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code
- Chapter 01 - General Provisions
- 10-1-101 - Short title.
- 10-1-102 - Effective date.
- 10-1-103 - Construction.
- 10-1-104 - Definitions.
- 10-1-105 - No changes intended.
- 10-1-106 - Scope of act.
- 10-1-107 - Municipalities.
- 10-1-108 - Cumulative powers -- Powers not in derogation of state agencies.
- 10-1-109 - Saving clause.
- 10-1-110 - Continuation of prior law.
- 10-1-111 - Existing indebtedness.
- 10-1-112 - Headings do not limit sections.
- 10-1-113 - Severability clause.
- 10-1-114 - Repealer.
- 10-1-115 - Legislation enacted by Legislature.
- 10-1-118 - Changing the name of a municipality.
- 10-1-119 - Inventory of competitive activities.
- 10-1-201 - Municipalities as political subdivisions of the state.
- 10-1-202 - Power to sue, contract, adopt municipal name and seal.
- 10-1-203 - License fees and taxes -- Disproportionate rental fee -- Application information to be transmitted to the county assessor.
- 10-1-301 - Title.
- 10-1-302 - Purpose and intent.
- 10-1-303 - Definitions.
- 10-1-304 - Municipality and military installation development authority may levy tax -- Rate -- Imposition or repeal of tax -- Tax rate change -- Effective date -- Notice requirements -- Exemptions.
- 10-1-305 - Municipal energy sales and use tax ordinance provisions.
- 10-1-306 - Rules for delivered value and point of sale.
- 10-1-307 - Administration, collection, and enforcement of taxes by commission -- Distribution of revenues -- Charge for services -- Collection of taxes by municipality.
- 10-1-308 - Report of tax collections -- Allocation when location of taxpayer cannot be accurately determined.
- 10-1-310 - Existing energy franchise taxes or contractual franchise fees.
- 10-1-401 - Title.
- 10-1-402 - Definitions.
- 10-1-403 - Municipality and military installation development authority may levy municipal telecommunications license tax -- Recovery from customers -- Enactment, repeal, or change in rate of tax -- A
- 10-1-404 - Municipal telecommunications license tax ordinance provisions.
- 10-1-405 - Collection of taxes by commission -- Uniform interlocal agreement -- Rulemaking authority -- Charge for services.
- 10-1-406 - Limitation of other telecommunications taxes or fees.
- 10-1-407 - Attributing the gross receipts from telecommunications service to a municipality -- Rate impact.
- 10-1-408 - Procedure for taxes erroneously recovered from customers.
- 10-1-410 - Transactions consisting of telecommunications service and nontelecommunications services.
- Chapter 02 - Incorporation, Classification, Boundaries, Consolidation, and Dissolution of Municipalities
- 10-2-101 - Definitions.
- 10-2-102 - Incorporation of a contiguous area.
- 10-2-103 - Request for feasibility study -- Requirements -- Limitations.
- 10-2-104 - Notice to owner of more than 1% of property -- Exclusion of property from proposed boundaries.
- 10-2-105 - Processing a request for feasibility study -- Certification or rejection by county clerk -- Processing priority -- Limitations -- Township planning commission recommendation.
- 10-2-106 - Feasibility study -- Feasibility study consultant.
- 10-2-107 - Modified request for feasibility study -- Supplemental feasibility study.
- 10-2-108 - Public hearings on feasibility study results -- Notice of hearings.
- 10-2-109 - Incorporation petition -- Requirements and form.
- 10-2-110 - Processing of petition by county clerk -- Certification or rejection -- Processing priority.
- 10-2-111 - Incorporation election.
- 10-2-112 - Ballot used at the incorporation election.
- 10-2-113 - Notification to lieutenant governor of incorporation election results.
- 10-2-114 - Determination of number of council members -- Determination of election districts -- Hearings and notice.
- 10-2-115 - Notice of number of commission or council members to be elected and of district boundaries -- Declaration of candidacy for city office.
- 10-2-116 - Election of officers of new city.
- 10-2-117 - Notification to lieutenant governor of election of city officers.
- 10-2-118 - Elections governed by the Election Code.
- 10-2-119 - Filing of notice and approved final local entity plat with lieutenant governor -- Effective date of incorporation -- Necessity of recording documents and effect of not recording.
- 10-2-120 - Powers of officers-elect.
- 10-2-121 - Division of municipal-type services revenues -- County may provide startup funds.
- 10-2-123 - Costs of incorporation.
- 10-2-124 - Incorporation petitions before May 5, 1997.
- 10-2-125 - Incorporation of a town.
- 10-2-301 - Classification of municipalities according to population.
- 10-2-302 - Change of class of municipality.
- 10-2-303 - Effect of change in class.
- 10-2-306 - Judicial notice taken of existence and class.
- 10-2-401 - Definitions -- Property owner provisions.
- 10-2-401.5 - Annexation policy plan.
- 10-2-402 - Annexation -- Limitations.
- 10-2-403 - Annexation petition -- Requirements -- Notice required before filing.
- 10-2-405 - Acceptance or denial of an annexation petition -- Petition certification process -- Modified petition.
- 10-2-406 - Notice of certification -- Publishing and providing notice of petition.
- 10-2-407 - Protest to annexation petition -- Township planning commission recommendation -- Petition requirements -- Disposition of petition if no protest filed.
- 10-2-408 - Denying or approving the annexation petition -- Notice of approval.
- 10-2-408.5 - Annexation of an area within a township -- Withdrawing the area from the township.
- 10-2-409 - Boundary commission -- Creation -- Members.
- 10-2-409.5 - Municipal selection committee.
- 10-2-410 - Boundary commission member terms -- Staggered terms -- Chair -- Quorum -- Vacancy.
- 10-2-411 - Disqualification of commission member -- Alternate member.
- 10-2-412 - Boundary commission authority -- Expenses -- Records.
- 10-2-413 - Feasibility consultant -- Feasibility study -- Modifications to feasibility study.
- 10-2-414 - Modified annexation petition -- Supplemental feasibility study.
- 10-2-415 - Public hearing -- Notice.
- 10-2-416 - Commission decision -- Time limit -- Limitation on approval of annexation.
- 10-2-417 - District court review -- Notice.
- 10-2-418 - Annexation of an island or peninsula without a petition -- Notice -- Hearing.
- 10-2-419 - Boundary adjustment -- Notice and hearing -- Protest.
- 10-2-420 - Bonds not affected by boundary adjustments or annexations -- Payment of property taxes.
- 10-2-421 - Electric utility service in annexed area -- Reimbursement for value of facilities.
- 10-2-422 - Conclusive presumption of annexation.
- 10-2-425 - Filing of notice and plat -- Recording and notice requirements -- Effective date of annexation or boundary adjustment.
- 10-2-426 - Division of municipal-type services revenues.
- 10-2-428 - Neither annexation nor boundary adjustment has an effect on the boundaries of most local districts or special service districts.
- 10-2-501 - Municipal disconnection -- Definitions -- Request for disconnection -- Requirements upon filing request.
- 10-2-502.5 - Hearing on request for disconnection -- Determination by municipal legislative body -- Petition in district court.
- 10-2-502.7 - Court action.
- 10-2-506 - Taxes to meet municipal obligations.
- 10-2-507 - Disconnection ordinance or decree -- Filing of notice and plat -- Recording requirements -- Effective date of disconnection -- Costs of disconnection.
- 10-2-509 - Costs.
- 10-2-510 - Boundary adjustment procedure not affected.
- 10-2-601 - Consolidation of two or more municipalities.
- 10-2-602 - Contents of resolution or petition.
- 10-2-603 - Plan of consolidation.
- 10-2-604 - Duty of county legislative body when petition is by electors.
- 10-2-605 - Effect of plan of consolidation.
- 10-2-606 - Public hearings.
- 10-2-607 - Notice of election.
- 10-2-608 - Contents of notice.
- 10-2-609 - Election on consolidation.
- 10-2-610 - Canvass of election -- Notice of results -- Filing of notice and plat -- Recording requirements.
- 10-2-611 - When consolidation effective -- Disincorporation of original municipalities -- Effective date for assessment purposes.
- 10-2-612 - New municipality -- Ownership of property -- Indebtedness of original municipalities.
- 10-2-613 - Governing body until next election.
- 10-2-614 - Ordinances, resolutions, and orders.
- 10-2-701 - Petition for disincorporation -- Validity -- District court order for election.
- 10-2-701.5 - Form of petition.
- 10-2-702 - District court to examine petition -- Set date for election.
- 10-2-703 - Publication of notice of election.
- 10-2-704 - Form of ballot.
- 10-2-705 - Judgment -- Determination of claims.
- 10-2-706 - Taxes to meet municipal obligations.
- 10-2-707 - Disposition of records.
- 10-2-708 - Notice of disincorporation -- Publication and filing.
- 10-2-709 - Expenses of election.
- 10-2-710 - Limitation on jurisdiction of court to consider disincorporation petition.
- 10-2-711 - Dissolution by the county legislative body.
- 10-2-712 - Power of court -- Articles of dissolution -- Notice to lieutenant governor -- Recording requirements -- Effective date of dissolution.
- Chapter 03 - Municipal Government
- 10-3-1001 - Subordinates in police, health, and fire departments to be appointed from list.
- 10-3-1002 - Classified civil service -- Places of employment constituting classified civil service -- Appointments to and from classified civil service.
- 10-3-1003 - Civil service commission -- Number, term, vacancies.
- 10-3-1004 - Qualifications of commissioners -- Salary -- Removal.
- 10-3-1005 - Organization of commission -- Secretary -- Offices.
- 10-3-1006 - Rules and regulations -- Printing and distribution.
- 10-3-1007 - Examinations.
- 10-3-1008 - Appointments from civil service list -- Probation period.
- 10-3-1009 - Certification of applicants for position -- Number -- Eligible lists, removal.
- 10-3-1010 - Promotions -- Basis -- Certification of applicants.
- 10-3-1011 - Temporary employees.
- 10-3-1012 - Suspension or discharge by department head -- Appeal to commission -- Hearing and decision.
- 10-3-1012.5 - Appeal to Court of Appeals -- Scope of review.
- 10-3-1013 - Annual and special reports by commission.
- 10-3-1103 - Sickness, disability and death benefits.
- 10-3-1104 - Library personnel -- Monthly wage deductions and matching sums -- Time of inclusion.
- 10-3-1105 - Municipal employees -- Duration and termination of employment -- Exceptions.
- 10-3-1106 - Discharge, suspension without pay, or involuntary transfer -- Appeals -- Board -- Procedure.
- 10-3-1107 - Cost of living adjustment -- Price index used.
- 10-3-1108 - Political activity of municipal officer or employee.
- 10-3-1109 - Compliance with Labor Code requirements.
- 10-3-1110 - Exemption from state licensure by Division of Real Estate.
- 10-3-1301 - Short title.
- 10-3-1302 - Purpose.
- 10-3-1303 - Definitions.
- 10-3-1304 - Use of office for personal benefit prohibited.
- 10-3-1305 - Compensation for assistance in transaction involving municipality -- Public disclosure and filing required.
- 10-3-1306 - Interest in business entity regulated by municipality -- Disclosure statement required.
- 10-3-1307 - Interest in business entity doing business with municipality -- Disclosure.
- 10-3-1308 - Investment creating conflict of interest with duties -- Disclosure.
- 10-3-1309 - Inducing officer or employee to violate part prohibited.
- 10-3-1310 - Penalties for violation -- Dismissal from employment or removal from office.
- 10-3-1311 - Complaints charging violations -- Procedure.
- 10-3-1312 - Violation of disclosure requirements -- Penalties -- Rescission of prohibited transaction.
- 10-3-201 - Municipal general election -- Terms of office.
- 10-3-202 - Terms of elected municipal officers.
- 10-3-205 - Election of officers in municipalities operating under a city council form of government.
- 10-3-205.5 - At-large election of officers -- Election of commissioners or council members.
- 10-3-208 - Campaign finance statement in municipal election.
- 10-3-301 - Eligibility and residency requirements for elected municipal office -- Mayor and recorder limitations.
- 10-3-302 - Mayoral or council vacancy of a municipality.
- 10-3-502 - Regular and special council meetings.
- 10-3-504 - Quorum defined.
- 10-3-505 - Compelling attendance at meetings of legislative body.
- 10-3-506 - How the vote is taken.
- 10-3-507 - Minimum vote required.
- 10-3-508 - Reconsideration.
- 10-3-601 - Business of governing body conducted only in open meeting.
- 10-3-603 - Public records.
- 10-3-604 - Annual examination of municipal finances -- Publication of results.
- 10-3-605 - Penalty.
- 10-3-606 - Rules of procedure.
- 10-3-607 - Rules of conduct for members of the governing body.
- 10-3-608 - Rules of conduct for the public.
- 10-3-609 - Action on committee reports.
- 10-3-610 - Requiring attendance of witnesses, production of evidence.
- 10-3-701 - Legislative power exercised by ordinance.
- 10-3-702 - Extent of power exercised by ordinance.
- 10-3-703 - Criminal penalties for violation of ordinance -- Civil penalties prohibited -- Exceptions.
- 10-3-703.7 - Administrative proceedings -- Procedures -- Appeals.
- 10-3-704 - Form of ordinance.
- 10-3-705 - Requirements as to form -- Effective date.
- 10-3-706 - Revision of ordinances.
- 10-3-707 - Power to codify ordinances.
- 10-3-708 - Arrangement of ordinances.
- 10-3-709 - Repeal of conflicting provisions -- Title.
- 10-3-710 - Publication in book, pamphlet or looseleaf form -- State statutes.
- 10-3-711 - Publication and posting of ordinances.
- 10-3-712 - Effective date.
- 10-3-713 - Recording, numbering, and certification of passage.
- 10-3-714 - Contents, dates, publication proved under seal.
- 10-3-715 - Municipal ordinances received in evidence.
- 10-3-716 - Fines and forfeitures -- Disposition.
- 10-3-717 - Purpose of resolutions.
- 10-3-718 - Form of resolution.
- 10-3-719 - Resolutions need no publication effective date.
- 10-3-801 - Administrative powers in cities of the first class.
- 10-3-803 - Officers limited to one office -- Exceptions.
- 10-3-805 - Administrative powers in cities of the second class.
- 10-3-818 - Salaries in municipalities.
- 10-3-819 - Bonds required.
- 10-3-820 - Bonds of officers in cities of the first and second class.
- 10-3-821 - Bond of treasurers.
- 10-3-822 - Approval of bonds.
- 10-3-823 - Premium paid by municipality.
- 10-3-824 - Bonds of first officers after incorporation.
- 10-3-825 - Additional bonds.
- 10-3-826 - Official neglect and misconduct class A misdemeanor -- Removal from office.
- 10-3-827 - Oaths.
- 10-3-828 - Oath -- Filing.
- 10-3-829 - Acts of officials not voided.
- 10-3-902 - City engineer required to be licensed.
- 10-3-903 - City engineer -- Custodian of records of public improvements.
- 10-3-904 - Books and supplies -- Recording, filing and inspection.
- 10-3-905 - Fees to be paid in advance.
- 10-3-906 - Seal.
- 10-3-907 - Recordation not to interfere with other recordation.
- 10-3-908 - Noncompliance a misdemeanor.
- 10-3-909 - Police and fire departments in cities of the first and second class.
- 10-3-910 - Heads of departments and subordinate officers.
- 10-3-912 - Chief of department may suspend subordinates.
- 10-3-913 - Authority of chief of police.
- 10-3-914 - Police officers -- Authority.
- 10-3-915 - Rights to arrest without warrant.
- 10-3-916 - Appointment of recorder and treasurer in a city of third, fourth, or fifth class or a town -- Vacancies in office.
- 10-3-917 - Engineer in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
- 10-3-918 - Chief of police or marshal in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
- 10-3-919 - Powers, duties, and obligations of police chief, marshal, and their assistants in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
- 10-3-920 - Bail commissioner -- Powers and duties.
- 10-3-921 - Fines -- Collection by bail commissioner -- Disposition.
- 10-3-922 - Term of bail commissioners -- Salary -- Bond and oath.
- 10-3-928 - Attorney duties -- Deputy public prosecutor.
- Chapter 03b - Forms of Municipal Government
- 10-3b-101 - Title.
- 10-3b-102 - Definitions.
- 10-3b-103 - Forms of municipal government -- Form of government for towns -- Former council-manager form.
- 10-3b-104 - Powers and duties of mayor in six-member council and five-member council forms of government.
- 10-3b-105 - Municipal council in six-member council and five-member council forms of government.
- 10-3b-201 - Separate branches of government under a council-mayor form of government.
- 10-3b-202 - Mayor in council-mayor form of government.
- 10-3b-203 - Council in a council-mayor form of government.
- 10-3b-204 - Presenting council action to mayor -- Veto -- Reconsideration -- When ordinance, tax levy, or appropriation takes effect.
- 10-3b-205 - Rules and regulations by municipal officers.
- 10-3b-301 - Municipal government powers vested in a six-member council.
- 10-3b-302 - Mayor in six-member council form of government -- Mayor pro tempore.
- 10-3b-303 - Council in six-member council form of government.
- 10-3b-401 - Municipal government powers vested in a five-member council.
- 10-3b-402 - Mayor in a five-member council form of government.
- 10-3b-403 - Council in a five-member council form of government.
- 10-3b-501 - Authority to change to another form of municipal government.
- 10-3b-502 - Voter approval required for a change in the form of government.
- 10-3b-503 - Resolution or petition proposing a change in the form of government.
- 10-3b-504 - Limitations on adoption of a resolution and filing of a petition.
- 10-3b-505 - Ballot form.
- 10-3b-506 - Election of officers after a change in the form of government.
- 10-3b-507 - Effective date of change in the form of government.
- Chapter 05 - Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Towns
- 10-5-101 - Short title.
- 10-5-102 - Applicability.
- 10-5-103 - Withholding state money of town failing to file budget.
- 10-5-104 - Fiscal year.
- 10-5-105 - Revenue and expenditure records.
- 10-5-106 - Funds for which budget prepared.
- 10-5-107 - Tentative budgets required for public inspection -- Contents -- Adoption of tentative budget.
- 10-5-108 - Budget hearing -- Notice -- Adjustments.
- 10-5-109 - Adoption of budgets -- Filing.
- 10-5-110 - Budgets effective for year -- Amendment -- Public access.
- 10-5-111 - Basis for property tax levy.
- 10-5-112 - Property tax levy set by ordinance -- Maximum -- Certification.
- 10-5-113 - Accumulation of retained earnings or fund balance -- Limit as to general fund -- Reserve for capital improvements.
- 10-5-114 - Appropriations limited to estimated revenue.
- 10-5-115 - Expenditures limited to appropriations -- Obligations in excess invalid -- Processing claims required.
- 10-5-116 - Transfer of unencumbered appropriation balance.
- 10-5-117 - Increasing budget total of fund.
- 10-5-118 - Emergency expenditures.
- 10-5-119 - Special fund balance -- Disposition when fund no longer required.
- 10-5-120 - Loans between funds -- Bonds purchased by funds.
- 10-5-121 - Records of council proceedings -- Clerk's records as evidence.
- 10-5-122 - Signing and record of contracts by clerk.
- 10-5-123 - Fund records maintained -- Pre-audit of claims and demands -- Certifications on check copy -- Bids received and advertisement records -- Time for keeping.
- 10-5-124 - Warrants tendered for claims.
- 10-5-125 - Treasurer -- Duties.
- 10-5-126 - Receipts for payments to town -- Filing copies.
- 10-5-127 - Signing of checks -- Determination of sufficiency of account.
- 10-5-128 - Deposit of town funds -- Commingling with personal funds prohibited -- Suspension from office for unauthorized use or profit from town funds.
- 10-5-129 - Annual financial report.
- 10-5-130 - Town fiscal committee -- Creation -- Appointment of members -- Terms -- Vacancies -- Functions.
- 10-5-131 - Uniform accounting and reporting procedures -- Forms -- Instructions.
- Chapter 06 - Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities
- 10-6-101 - Short title.
- 10-6-102 - Legislative intent -- Purpose of chapter.
- 10-6-103 - Applicability to all cities.
- 10-6-104 - Withholding of state money from cities not filing budget or complying with reporting or auditing requirements.
- 10-6-105 - Fiscal period -- Annual or biennial.
- 10-6-106 - Definitions.
- 10-6-107 - Uniform accounting system.
- 10-6-108 - Funds and account groups maintained.
- 10-6-109 - Budget required for certain funds -- Capital projects fund budget.
- 10-6-110 - Budget -- Contents -- Total of revenues to equal expenditures.
- 10-6-111 - Tentative budget to be prepared -- Contents -- Estimate of expenditures -- Budget message -- Review by governing body.
- 10-6-112 - Tentative budget and data -- Availability for public inspection.
- 10-6-113 - Budget -- Notice of hearing to consider adoption.
- 10-6-114 - Budget -- Public hearing on tentatively adopted budget.
- 10-6-115 - Budget -- Continuing authority of governing body.
- 10-6-116 - Accumulated fund balances -- Limitations -- Excess balances -- Unanticipated excess of revenues -- Reserves for capital improvements.
- 10-6-117 - Appropriations not to exceed estimated expendable revenue -- Determination of revenue -- Appropriations for existing deficits.
- 10-6-118 - Adoption of final budget -- Certification and filing.
- 10-6-119 - Budgets in effect for budget period -- Amendment -- Filing for public inspection.
- 10-6-120 - Property tax levy -- Amount in budget as basis for determining.
- 10-6-121 - Departmental expenditures -- Encumbrances -- Purchase order.
- 10-6-122 - Purchasing procedures and file of bids received and proof of advertisement -- Time for keeping.
- 10-6-123 - Expenditures or encumbrances in excess of appropriations prohibited -- Processing claims.
- 10-6-124 - Transfer of appropriation balance between accounts -- Excess expenditure within departments.
- 10-6-125 - Transfer of appropriation balance between departments in same fund.
- 10-6-126 - Reduction of total budget appropriation of department by resolution -- Notice to governing body.
- 10-6-127 - Review of individual fund budgets -- Hearing.
- 10-6-128 - Amendment and increase of individual fund budgets.
- 10-6-129 - Emergency expenditures.
- 10-6-130 - Lapse of appropriations -- Exceptions.
- 10-6-131 - Transfer of balances in special funds.
- 10-6-132 - Loans by one fund to another -- Acquiring bonds for investment.
- 10-6-133 - Property tax levy -- Time for setting -- Computation of total levy -- Apportionment of proceeds -- Maximum levy.
- 10-6-134 - Certification of ordinance or resolution setting levy.
- 10-6-135 - Operating and capital budgets.
- 10-6-136 - Increase in appropriations for operating and capital budget funds -- Notice.
- 10-6-137 - City recorder -- Office -- Meetings and records -- Certified records as evidence.
- 10-6-138 - City recorder to countersign contracts -- Indexed record of contracts.
- 10-6-139 - City auditor or recorder -- Bookkeeping duties -- Duties with respect to payment of claims.
- 10-6-140 - Warrants for payment of claims.
- 10-6-141 - City treasurer -- Duties generally.
- 10-6-142 - City treasurer -- Receipts for payment.
- 10-6-143 - City treasurer or deputy -- Duties with respect to issuance of checks.
- 10-6-144 - City treasurer -- Warrants -- Order of payment.
- 10-6-145 - City treasurer -- Special assessments -- Application of proceeds.
- 10-6-146 - City treasurer -- Deposit of city funds -- Commingling with personal funds unlawful -- Suspension from office.
- 10-6-147 - Quarterly financial reports -- First and second class cities.
- 10-6-148 - Monthly and quarterly financial reports -- Cities of the third, fourth, and fifth class.
- 10-6-150 - Annual financial reports -- Independent audit reports.
- 10-6-151 - Independent audit requirements.
- 10-6-152 - Notice that audit completed and available for inspection.
- 10-6-153 - Municipal government fiscal committee created -- Members -- Terms -- Vacancies -- Recommendations.
- 10-6-154 - Duties of state auditor and committee -- Adoption and expansion of uniform system.
- 10-6-156 - State auditor to evaluate fiscal practices.
- 10-6-157 - Director of finance in certain cities and towns.
- 10-6-158 - Financial administration ordinance -- Adoption -- Purpose.
- 10-6-159 - Financial administration ordinance -- Provisions.
- Chapter 07 - Miscellaneous Powers of Cities and Towns
- 10-7-10.5 - Authority to require written application for water or sewer service and to terminate service for failure to pay -- Limitations.
- 10-7-12 - Scarcity of water -- Limitation on use.
- 10-7-13 - Right of entry on premises of water user.
- 10-7-14 - Rules and regulations for use of water.
- 10-7-14.1 - Declaration of public policy.
- 10-7-14.2 - Special tax -- Grant of power to levy.
- 10-7-14.3 - Time limit for cities of first class.
- 10-7-15 - Sale or lease of electrical generation and distribution system -- Appraisal and vote required -- Manner of conducting the election.
- 10-7-16 - Call for bids -- Notice -- Contents.
- 10-7-17 - Opening of bids -- Amount to equal or exceed appraised value and amount of outstanding indebtedness.
- 10-7-18 - Disposition of money received.
- 10-7-19 - Election to authorize -- Notice -- Ballots.
- 10-7-20.5 - Restrictions on municipality procurement of architect-engineer services.
- 10-7-26 - Streets and alleys used by railway companies.
- 10-7-27 - Street railway companies to restore streets.
- 10-7-29 - Railway companies to repave streets.
- 10-7-3 - Participation in and cooperation with local health department -- Adoption of ordinances.
- 10-7-30 - Failure to pay for repairs -- Lien on company's property.
- 10-7-31 - Sale of property to satisfy claims for special taxes.
- 10-7-32 - Actions to recover taxes.
- 10-7-33 - Delinquent taxes -- Installment payments -- Election and waiver.
- 10-7-4 - Water supply -- Acquisition -- Condemnation -- Protest -- Special election -- Determination of just compensation.
- 10-7-5 - Limitations on lease or purchase.
- 10-7-6 - Contracts for lighting public buildings, streets and alleys -- Limitation.
- 10-7-65 - Party plaintiff -- Successive actions permitted.
- 10-7-66 - Fines and forfeitures to be paid to treasurer -- Exceptions.
- 10-7-67 - Pleading -- Reference to ordinance -- Judgment enforced by imprisonment.
- 10-7-68 - Service of process and arrests.
- 10-7-69 - Corporations may be complained against.
- 10-7-7 - Bond issues for water, light, and sewers.
- 10-7-70 - Corporate violation -- Summons -- Forms.
- 10-7-71 - Corporate violation -- Summons -- Time and manner of service.
- 10-7-72 - Appearance by agent of corporation -- Bench warrant for default.
- 10-7-73 - Corporate violation -- Hearing -- Penalty imposed to be a fine.
- 10-7-74 - Execution on judgment against corporation.
- 10-7-76 - Payment of witness fees and mileage.
- 10-7-79 - Power of board of city commissioners or council to provide for development of resources.
- 10-7-8 - Resolution on bond issue -- Election as provided by Local Government Bonding Act.
- 10-7-80 - Development committee -- Appointment of members -- Terms, compensation and expenses, vacancies and removal of members.
- 10-7-81 - Development committee -- Election of officers -- Employment of executive director.
- 10-7-82 - Development committee -- Functions.
- 10-7-83 - Power of board of city commissioners or council to contract with other authorities.
- 10-7-84 - Expenditure of city funds authorized.
- 10-7-85 - Support of the arts.
- 10-7-86 - Municipality may adopt Utah Procurement Code -- Hiring of professional architect, engineer, or surveyor.
- 10-7-87 - Procurement -- Use of recycled goods.
- 10-7-9 - Sale of bonds -- Amount -- Tax levy to pay interest -- Utility rates -- Sinking fund -- Serial or term bonds.
- Chapter 08 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities
- 10-8-1 - Control of finances and property.
- 10-8-1.5 - Authority to make benefits generally available to employees, their dependents, and an adult designee -- Registry authorized -- Limitations.
- 10-8-1.7 - Use of incremental tax revenue for relocation expenses of displaced mobile home park residents.
- 10-8-10 - Trees.
- 10-8-11 - Streets -- Encroachments, lighting, sprinkling, cleaning.
- 10-8-13 - Conduits, drains, etc.
- 10-8-14 - Water, sewer, gas, electricity, and public transportation -- Service beyond city limits -- Retainage -- Cable television and public telecommunications services.
- 10-8-14.5 - Utility easements -- Use for water or sewerage service.
- 10-8-15 - Waterworks -- Construction -- Extraterritorial jurisdiction.
- 10-8-16 - Watercourses leading to and within city -- Mill privileges.
- 10-8-17 - City may act as distributing agent -- Collection of operating costs from users.
- 10-8-18 - Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage.
- 10-8-19 - Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent.
- 10-8-2 - Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property.
- 10-8-2.5 - Prohibition against spending certain transportation funds.
- 10-8-20 - Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage.
- 10-8-21 - Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires.
- 10-8-22 - Water rates.
- 10-8-23 - Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice.
- 10-8-24 - Litter in streets.
- 10-8-25 - Crosswalks, curbs and gutters.
- 10-8-26 - Signs and advertising material.
- 10-8-27 - Placards and handbills.
- 10-8-28 - Flags and banners.
- 10-8-29 - Sales and merchandising on streets.
- 10-8-3 - Tax districts.
- 10-8-30 - Traffic regulations.
- 10-8-31 - Numbering houses and lots.
- 10-8-32 - Naming streets and public places.
- 10-8-33 - Railroads -- Tracks and franchises.
- 10-8-34 - Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal.
- 10-8-35 - Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads.
- 10-8-36 - Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks.
- 10-8-37 - Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage.
- 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 se
- 10-8-4 - Special taxes and licenses.
- 10-8-41 - Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications.
- 10-8-41.5 - Regulation of sexually oriented business.
- 10-8-42 - Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc.
- 10-8-43 - Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc.
- 10-8-44 - Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection.
- 10-8-44.5 - Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination.
- 10-8-45 - Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing.
- 10-8-46 - Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners.
- 10-8-47 - Intoxication -- Fights -- Disorderly conduct -- Assault and battery -- Petit larceny -- Riots and disorderly assemblies -- Firearms and fireworks -- False pretenses and embezzlement -- Sale
- 10-8-49 - Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging.
- 10-8-5 - Erection and care of buildings.
- 10-8-50 - Disturbing the peace -- Public intoxication -- Fighting -- Obscene language -- Disorderly conduct -- Lewd behavior -- Interference with officers -- Trespass.
- 10-8-51 - Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment.
- 10-8-52 - Buildings -- Fire limits -- Removal and destruction of buildings violating ordinance.
- 10-8-53 - Fire escapes -- Construction -- Building exits -- Fire extinguishers.
- 10-8-53.5 - Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only.
- 10-8-54 - Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes.
- 10-8-55 - Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations.
- 10-8-56 - Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires.
- 10-8-57 - Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers.
- 10-8-58 - Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance.
- 10-8-58.5 - Contracting for management, maintenance, operation, or construction of jails.
- 10-8-59 - Cruelty to animals.
- 10-8-6 - Borrowing power -- Warrants and bonds.
- 10-8-60 - Nuisances.
- 10-8-62 - Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.
- 10-8-63 - Burial of dead -- Vital statistics.
- 10-8-64 - Livestock at large -- Pound -- Distraint.
- 10-8-65 - Dogs -- License and tax -- Destruction, sale or other disposal.
- 10-8-66 - Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction.
- 10-8-67 - Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment.
- 10-8-68 - Census.
- 10-8-69 - Annoying pastimes in streets.
- 10-8-7 - Refunding bonds -- Purpose of issuance.
- 10-8-70 - Lumberyards and combustible materials.
- 10-8-71 - Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage.
- 10-8-72 - Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance.
- 10-8-73 - Processions and demonstrations.
- 10-8-74 - Burial of indigents.
- 10-8-75 - Destitute children.
- 10-8-76 - Noise abatement -- Street performances.
- 10-8-77 - Untied animals in streets.
- 10-8-78 - Official bonds and reports.
- 10-8-79 - Creating offices -- Filling vacancies.
- 10-8-8 - Streets, parks, airports, parking facilities, public grounds, and pedestrian malls.
- 10-8-8.6 - Widening a street or alley.
- 10-8-81 - Social clubs and athletic associations.
- 10-8-82 - Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks.
- 10-8-83 - Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation.
- 10-8-84 - Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties.
- 10-8-85 - Prison labor and fines.
- 10-8-85.5 - "Rental dwelling" defined -- Municipality may require a business license or a regulatory business license and inspections -- Exception.
- 10-8-85.6 - Definitions -- Electronic payments -- Fee.
- 10-8-85.7 - Implements of husbandry tracking debris onto municipal roads.
- 10-8-85.8 - Indemnification of farmers markets.
- 10-8-85.9 - Preservation of historical areas and sites.
- 10-8-86 - Organization, operation, maintenance, and funding of system for public transit authorized.
- 10-8-89 - Damage to abutting property -- Liability of city.
- 10-8-9 - Bathhouses, playgrounds.
- 10-8-90 - Ownership and operation of hospitals.
- 10-8-91 - Levy of tax by cities of the third, fourth, and fifth class and towns.
- 10-8-92 - Joint board -- Membership -- Powers.
- 10-8-93 - Control of funds and disbursements -- Auditing of accounts by county auditor -- Transfer of county tax funds to board to cover deficiencies.
- 10-8-94 - Towns with same authority as cities.
- Chapter 09a - Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act
- 10-9a-101 - Title.
- 10-9a-102 - Purposes -- General land use authority.
- 10-9a-103 - Definitions.
- 10-9a-104 - Stricter requirements.
- 10-9a-201 - Required notice.
- 10-9a-202 - Applicant notice -- Waiver of requirements.
- 10-9a-203 - Notice of intent to prepare a general plan or comprehensive general plan amendments in certain municipalities.
- 10-9a-204 - Notice of public hearings and public meetings to consider general plan or modifications.
- 10-9a-205 - Notice of public hearings and public meetings on adoption or modification of land use ordinance.
- 10-9a-206 - Third party notice.
- 10-9a-207 - Notice for an amendment to a subdivision -- Notice for vacation of or change to street.
- 10-9a-208 - Hearing and notice for proposal to vacate a public street, right-of-way, or easement.
- 10-9a-209 - Notice challenge.
- 10-9a-210 - Notice to municipality when a private institution of higher education is constructing student housing.
- 10-9a-211 - Canal owner or operator -- Notice to municipality.
- 10-9a-301 - Ordinance establishing planning commission required -- Ordinance requirements -- Compensation.
- 10-9a-302 - Planning commission powers and duties.
- 10-9a-303 - Entrance upon land.
- 10-9a-304 - State and federal property.
- 10-9a-305 - Other entities required to conform to municipality's land use ordinances -- Exceptions -- School districts and charter schools -- Submission of development plan and schedule.
- 10-9a-401 - General plan required -- Content.
- 10-9a-402 - Information and technical assistance from the state.
- 10-9a-403 - Plan preparation.
- 10-9a-404 - Public hearing by planning commission on proposed general plan or amendment -- Notice -- Revisions to general plan or amendment -- Adoption or rejection by legislative body.
- 10-9a-405 - Effect of general plan.
- 10-9a-406 - Public uses to conform to general plan.
- 10-9a-407 - Effect of official maps.
- 10-9a-408 - Biennial review of moderate income housing element of general plan.
- 10-9a-501 - Authority to enact land use ordinances and zoning map.
- 10-9a-502 - Preparation and adoption of land use ordinance or zoning map.
- 10-9a-503 - Land use ordinance or zoning map amendments.
- 10-9a-504 - Temporary land use regulations.
- 10-9a-505 - Zoning districts.
- 10-9a-505.5 - Limit on single family designation.
- 10-9a-506 - Regulating annexed territory.
- 10-9a-507 - Conditional uses.
- 10-9a-508 - Exactions -- Exaction for water interest -- Requirement to offer to original owner property acquired by exaction.
- 10-9a-509 - Applicant's entitlement to land use application approval -- Exceptions -- Application relating to land in a high priority transportation corridor -- Municipality's requirements and
- 10-9a-509.5 - Review for application completeness -- Substantive application review -- Reasonable diligence required for determination of whether improvements or warranty work meets standards -- Money
- 10-9a-509.7 - Transferrable development rights.
- 10-9a-510 - Limit on fees -- Requirement to itemize fees.
- 10-9a-511 - Nonconforming uses and noncomplying structures.
- 10-9a-512 - Termination of a billboard and associated rights.
- 10-9a-513 - Municipality's acquisition of billboard by eminent domain -- Removal without providing compensation -- Limit on allowing nonconforming billboards to be rebuilt or replaced -- Validity
- 10-9a-514 - Manufactured homes.
- 10-9a-515 - Regulation of amateur radio antennas.
- 10-9a-516 - Residential facilities for elderly persons.
- 10-9a-517 - Municipal ordinances governing elderly residential facilities.
- 10-9a-518 - Municipal approval of elderly residential facilities.
- 10-9a-519 - Elderly residential facilities in areas zoned exclusively for single-family dwellings.
- 10-9a-520 - Residences for persons with a disability.
- 10-9a-521 - Wetlands.
- 10-9a-522 - Refineries.
- 10-9a-601 - Enactment of subdivision ordinance.
- 10-9a-602 - Planning commission preparation and recommendation of subdivision ordinance -- Adoption or rejection by legislative body.
- 10-9a-603 - Plat required when land is subdivided -- Approval of plat -- Owner acknowledgment, surveyor certification, and underground utility facilities owner approval of plat -- Recording plat.
- 10-9a-604 - Subdivision plat approval procedure -- Effect of not complying.
- 10-9a-604.5 - Subdivision plat recording or development activity before required improvements are completed -- Improvement assurance -- Warranty.
- 10-9a-605 - Exemptions from plat requirement.
- 10-9a-606 - Common or community area parcels on a plat -- No separate ownership -- Ownership interest equally divided among other parcels on plat and included in description of other parcels.
- 10-9a-607 - Dedication of streets and other public places.
- 10-9a-608 - Vacating, altering, or amending a subdivision plat.
- 10-9a-609 - Land use authority approval of vacation or amendment of plat -- Recording the amended plat.
- 10-9a-609.5 - Vacating a street, right-of-way, or easement.
- 10-9a-610 - Restrictions for solar and other energy devices.
- 10-9a-611 - Prohibited acts.
- 10-9a-701 - Appeal authority required -- Condition precedent to judicial review -- Appeal authority duties.
- 10-9a-702 - Variances.
- 10-9a-703 - Appealing a land use authority's decision -- Panel of experts for appeals of geologic hazard decisions.
- 10-9a-704 - Time to appeal.
- 10-9a-705 - Burden of proof.
- 10-9a-706 - Due process.
- 10-9a-707 - Standard of review for appeals.
- 10-9a-708 - Final decision.
- 10-9a-801 - No district court review until administrative remedies exhausted -- Time for filing -- Tolling of time -- Standards governing court review -- Record on review -- Staying of decision.
- 10-9a-802 - Enforcement.
- 10-9a-803 - Penalties.
- Chapter 11 - Inspection and Cleaning
- Chapter 15 - Pedestrian Mall Law of Utah
- Chapter 17 - Municipal Animal Shelter Pet Sterilization Act
- 10-17-101 - Title.
- 10-17-102 - Definitions.
- 10-17-103 - Animal shelters shall transfer only sterilized animals, or shall require sterilization deposit.
- 10-17-104 - Sterilization deposit.
- 10-17-105 - Failure to comply with sterilization agreement.
- 10-17-105.5 - Sterilization deposit -- When required for redemption by owner of impounded animal.
- 10-17-106 - Penalties.
- 10-17-107 - Local ordinances may be no less restrictive.
- Chapter 18 - Municipal Cable Television and Public Telecommunications Services Act
- 10-18-101 - Title -- Policy statement.
- 10-18-102 - Definitions.
- 10-18-103 - Antitrust immunity.
- 10-18-104 - Application to existing contracts.
- 10-18-105 - Scope of chapter.
- 10-18-106 - Severability.
- 10-18-201 - Limitations on providing a cable television and public telecommunications services.
- 10-18-202 - Required steps before a municipality may provide cable television or public telecommunications services.
- 10-18-203 - Feasibility study on providing cable television or public telecommunications services -- Public hearings.
- 10-18-204 - Vote permissible -- Referendum.
- 10-18-301 - Enterprise funds for cable television or public telecommunications services.
- 10-18-302 - Bonding authority.
- 10-18-303 - General operating limitations.
- 10-18-304 - Eminent domain.
- 10-18-305 - Quality of service standards.
- 10-18-306 - Enforcement and appeal.
- Chapter 19 - Municipal Electric Utility Carbon Emission Reduction Act
- 10-19-101 - Title.
- 10-19-102 - Definitions.
- 10-19-201 - Target amount of qualifying electricity -- Renewable energy certificate -- Cost-effectiveness.
- 10-19-202 - Renewable energy certificate -- Use to satisfy other requirements.
- 10-19-301 - Plans and reports.
- 10-19-302 - Municipal authority -- Commission authority.