S.B. 263 Enrolled

AMENDMENTS TO DUTIES OF COUNTY EXECUTIVE
2001 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Gene Davis
This act modifies provisions relating to Counties to expand a county executive's duties to
include signing deeds that convey county property.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
17-53-302, as enacted by Chapter 133, Laws of Utah 2000
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 17-53-302 is amended to read:
17-53-302. County executive duties.
Each county executive shall:
(1) exercise supervisory control over all functions of the executive branch of county
government;
(2) direct and organize the management of the county in a manner consistent with state
law, county ordinance, and the county's optional plan of county government;
(3) carry out programs and policies established by the county legislative body;
(4) faithfully ensure compliance with all applicable laws and county ordinances;
(5) exercise supervisory and coordinating control over all departments of county
government;
(6) except as otherwise vested in the county legislative body by state law or by the optional
plan of county government, appoint, suspend, and remove the directors of all county departments
and all appointive officers of boards and commissions;
(7) except as otherwise delegated by statute to another county officer, exercise
administrative and auditing control over all funds and assets, tangible and intangible, of the county;
(8) except as otherwise delegated by statute to another county officer, supervise and direct
centralized budgeting, accounting, personnel management, purchasing, and other service functions
of the county;

(9) conduct planning studies and make recommendations to the county legislative body
relating to financial, administrative, procedural, and operational plans, programs, and improvements
in county government;
(10) maintain a continuing review of expenditures and of the effectiveness of departmental
budgetary controls;
(11) develop systems and procedures, not inconsistent with statute, for planning,
programming, budgeting, and accounting for all activities of the county;
(12) if the county executive is an elected county executive, exercise a power of veto over
ordinances enacted by the county legislative body, including an item veto upon budget
appropriations, in the manner provided by the optional plan of county government; [and]
(13) perform all other functions and duties required of the executive by state law, county
ordinance, and the optional plan of county government[.]; and
(14) sign on behalf of the county all deeds that convey county property.

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