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H.B. 264
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REVISOR'S STATUTE
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2007 GENERAL SESSION
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STATE OF UTAH
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Chief Sponsor: Stephen H. Urquhart
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Senate Sponsor:
John W. Hickman
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LONG TITLE
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General Description:
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This bill modifies parts of the Utah Code to make technical corrections including
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eliminating references to repealed provisions, making minor wording changes, updating
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cross references, and correcting numbering.
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Highlighted Provisions:
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This bill:
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. modifies parts of the Utah Code to make technical corrections including eliminating
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references to repealed provisions, making minor wording changes, updating cross
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references, and correcting numbering.
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Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
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None
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Other Special Clauses:
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None
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Utah Code Sections Affected:
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AMENDS:
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3-1-9, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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3-1-17, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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3-1-41, as last amended by Chapter 82, Laws of Utah 1997
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7-1-104, as last amended by Chapter 267, Laws of Utah 1989
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7-7-12, as last amended by Chapter 200, Laws of Utah 1994
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10-8-2, as last amended by Chapters 136 and 254, Laws of Utah 2005
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10-9a-801, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 254, Laws of Utah 2005
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11-13-314, as enacted by Chapter 136, Laws of Utah 2005
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13-5-9, as last amended by Chapter 23, Laws of Utah 1965
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13-11a-3, as enacted by Chapter 205, Laws of Utah 1989
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13-21-7, as enacted by Chapter 29, Laws of Utah 1985
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16-6a-822, as last amended by Chapter 228, Laws of Utah 2006
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17-27a-801, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 254, Laws of Utah 2005
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17A-2-412, as last amended by Chapter 368, Laws of Utah 1998
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23-13-1, as enacted by Chapter 46, Laws of Utah 1971
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26-18-503, as enacted by Chapter 215, Laws of Utah 2004
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26-34-2, as enacted by Chapter 276, Laws of Utah 1989
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26-39-104, as last amended by Chapter 37, Laws of Utah 2006
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31A-16-105, as repealed and reenacted by Chapter 258, Laws of Utah 1992
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31A-17-402, as last amended by Chapter 186, Laws of Utah 2002
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31A-26-210, as last amended by Chapter 204, Laws of Utah 1986
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32A-13-103, as last amended by Chapter 185, Laws of Utah 2002
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34-19-5, as enacted by Chapter 85, Laws of Utah 1969
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35A-3-313, as last amended by Chapter 29, Laws of Utah 2004
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36-26-102, as enacted by Chapter 362, Laws of Utah 2006
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38-1-27, as last amended by Chapter 297, Laws of Utah 2006
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38-2-3.2, as enacted by Chapter 62, Laws of Utah 1953
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40-10-9, as enacted by Chapter 145, Laws of Utah 1979
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41-3-408, as last amended by Chapter 175, Laws of Utah 1994
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41-12a-305, as enacted by Chapter 242, Laws of Utah 1985
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41-22-29, as last amended by Chapter 114, Laws of Utah 1999
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49-12-203, as last amended by Chapter 143, Laws of Utah 2006
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49-12-402, as last amended by Chapter 116, Laws of Utah 2005
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49-13-203, as last amended by Chapter 143, Laws of Utah 2006
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53A-1-706, as last amended by Chapter 88, Laws of Utah 2004
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53A-2-120, as enacted by Chapter 234, Laws of Utah 2003
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53A-2-213, as last amended by Chapter 119, Laws of Utah 1993
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53A-8-105, as last amended by Chapter 324, Laws of Utah 1999
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53A-17a-107, as last amended by Chapter 268, Laws of Utah 1994
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53A-28-401, as enacted by Chapter 62, Laws of Utah 1996
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53B-8a-108, as last amended by Chapter 109, Laws of Utah 2005
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53C-1-201, as last amended by Chapter 139, Laws of Utah 2006
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54-1-3, as last amended by Chapter 246, Laws of Utah 1983
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54-4-8, as last amended by Chapter 265, Laws of Utah 1998
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54-8-24, as enacted by Chapter 157, Laws of Utah 1969
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54-9-103, as last amended by Chapter 105, Laws of Utah 2005
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57-1-31.5, as enacted by Chapter 209, Laws of Utah 2002
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57-2a-4, as enacted by Chapter 155, Laws of Utah 1988
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57-2a-7, as last amended by Chapter 88, Laws of Utah 1989
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57-12-2, as enacted by Chapter 24, Laws of Utah 1972
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57-12-14, as enacted by Chapters 295 and 321, Laws of Utah 1998
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57-15-8.5, as enacted by Chapter 224, Laws of Utah 1981
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58-13-2, as last amended by Chapters 153 and 299, Laws of Utah 2005
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58-17b-504, as enacted by Chapter 280, Laws of Utah 2004
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58-61-307, as last amended by Chapter 281, Laws of Utah 2001
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59-2-201, as last amended by Chapter 360, Laws of Utah 1997
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59-2-1108, as last amended by Chapter 143, Laws of Utah 2003
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59-2-1302, as last amended by Chapter 143, Laws of Utah 2003
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59-2-1331, as last amended by Chapter 279, Laws of Utah 2006
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59-2-1347, as last amended by Chapter 143, Laws of Utah 2003
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59-7-605, as last amended by Chapters 108 and 294, Laws of Utah 2005
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59-10-1009, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 223, Laws of Utah 2006
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59-11-102, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 2, Laws of Utah 1987
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59-13-204, as last amended by Chapter 232, Laws of Utah 2001
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59-14-208, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 2, Laws of Utah 1987
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59-22-304, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 229, Laws of Utah 2000
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59-22-307, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 229, Laws of Utah 2000
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61-2b-25, as last amended by Chapter 117, Laws of Utah 1999
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62A-4a-107, as last amended by Chapter 75, Laws of Utah 2006
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63-11-1, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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63-30d-203, as enacted by Chapter 267, Laws of Utah 2004
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63-38f-501, as last amended by Chapter 223, Laws of Utah 2006
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63-46b-3, as last amended by Chapter 162, Laws of Utah 2006
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63-46b-8, as last amended by Chapter 72, Laws of Utah 1988
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63-55-259, as last amended by Chapters 232 and 289, Laws of Utah 2005
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63-55-263, as last amended by Chapters 82 and 86, Laws of Utah 2006
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63-55b-154, as last amended by Chapter 205, Laws of Utah 2003
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63-55b-159, as last amended by Chapter 90, Laws of Utah 2004
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63-55b-163, as last amended by Chapter 340, Laws of Utah 2006
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63-55b-178, as last amended by Chapter 65, Laws of Utah 2004
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63-56-806, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 25, Laws of Utah 2005
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63-65-2, as last amended by Chapter 294, Laws of Utah 2005
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63-90-2, as last amended by Chapter 293, Laws of Utah 1997
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63A-3-205, as last amended by Chapter 294, Laws of Utah 2005
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63F-1-205, as enacted by Chapter 169, Laws of Utah 2005
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64-13-14, as last amended by Chapter 116, Laws of Utah 1987
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67-11-2, as last amended by Chapter 92, Laws of Utah 1987
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67-11-3, as last amended by Chapter 92, Laws of Utah 1987
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67-11-4, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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67-11-5, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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67-11-6, as last amended by Chapter 92, Laws of Utah 1987
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70A-2-504, as enacted by Chapter 154, Laws of Utah 1965
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70A-3-312, as last amended by Chapter 79, Laws of Utah 1996
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70A-10-102, as enacted by Chapter 154, Laws of Utah 1965
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70C-7-107, as enacted by Chapter 24, Laws of Utah 1988
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73-10-23, as last amended by Chapter 234, Laws of Utah 1990
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75-2-1105, as last amended by Chapter 129, Laws of Utah 1993
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75-3-902, as enacted by Chapter 150, Laws of Utah 1975
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75-5-428, as enacted by Chapter 150, Laws of Utah 1975
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76-6-505, as last amended by Chapter 291, Laws of Utah 1995
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76-6-506.2, as last amended by Chapter 60, Laws of Utah 1991
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76-6-603, as enacted by Chapter 78, Laws of Utah 1979
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77-13-1, as last amended by Chapter 61, Laws of Utah 2002
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77-19-4, as enacted by Chapter 15, Laws of Utah 1980
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77-27-24, as enacted by Chapter 15, Laws of Utah 1980
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77-27-29, as enacted by Chapter 15, Laws of Utah 1980
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77-30-23, as last amended by Chapter 67, Laws of Utah 1984
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77-30-25, as enacted by Chapter 15, Laws of Utah 1980
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77-32-303, as last amended by Chapter 251, Laws of Utah 2001
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78-13-1, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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78-14-9.5, as last amended by Chapters 30 and 240, Laws of Utah 1992
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78-24-14, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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78-25-16, as last amended by Chapter 20, Laws of Utah 1995
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78-31a-121, as enacted by Chapter 326, Laws of Utah 2002
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78-34-4.5, as last amended by Chapter 358, Laws of Utah 2006
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78-34-9, as last amended by Chapter 223, Laws of Utah 2004
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78-34-21, as last amended by Chapter 214, Laws of Utah 2003
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78-39-15, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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78-45-7.5, as last amended by Chapter 324, Laws of Utah 2006
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
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Section 1.
Section
3-1-9
is amended to read:
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3-1-9. Powers.
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[(I)] (1) An association formed under this act, or an association which might be formed
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under this act and which existed at the time this act took effect, shall have power and capacity
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to act possessed by natural persons and may do each and everything necessary, suitable or
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proper for the accomplishment of any one or more of the purposes, or the attainment of any one
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or more of the objects herein enumerated or conducive to or expedient for the interests or
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benefit of the association, and may exercise all powers, rights, and privileges necessary or
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incident thereto, including the exercise of any rights, powers, and privileges granted by the
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laws of this state to corporations generally, excepting such as are inconsistent with the express
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provisions of this act.
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[Special Authority.]
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[(II)] (2) Without limiting or enlarging the grant of authority contained in [Subdivision
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I of this section] Subsection (1), it is hereby specifically provided that every such association
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shall have authority:
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(a) to act as agent, broker, or attorney in fact for its members and other producers, and
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for any subsidiary or affiliated association, and otherwise to assist or join with associations
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engaged in any one or more of the activities authorized by its articles, and to hold title for its
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members and other producers, and for subsidiary and affiliated association to property handled
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or managed by the association on their behalf;
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(b) to make contracts and to exercise by its board or duly authorized officers or agents,
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all such incidental powers as may be necessary, suitable or proper for the accomplishment of
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the purposes of the association and not inconsistent with law or its articles, and that may be
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conducive to or expedient for the interest or benefit of the association;
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(c) to make loans or advances to members or producer-patrons or to the members of an
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association which is itself a member or subsidiary thereof; to purchase, or otherwise acquire,
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endorse, discount, or sell any evidence of debt, obligation or security;
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(d) to establish and accumulate reasonable reserves and surplus funds and to abolish
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the same; also to create, maintain, and terminate revolving funds or other similar funds which
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may be provided for in the bylaws of the association;
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(e) to own and hold membership in or shares of the stock of other associations and
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corporations and the bonds or other obligations thereof, engaged in any related activity; or, in
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producing, warehousing or marketing any of the products handled by the association; or, in
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financing its activities; and while the owner thereof, to exercise all the rights of ownership,
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including the right to vote thereon;
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(f) to acquire, hold, sell, dispose of, pledge, or mortgage, any property which its
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purposes may require;
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(g) to borrow money without limitation as to amount, and to give its notes, bonds, or
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other obligations therefor and secure the payment thereof by mortgage or pledge;
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(h) to deal in products of, and handle machinery, equipment, supplies and perform
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services for nonmembers to an amount not greater in annual value than such as are dealt in,
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handled or performed for or on behalf of its members, but the value of the annual purchases
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made for persons who are neither members nor producers shall not exceed fifteen per centum
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of the value of all its purchases. Business transacted by an association for or on behalf of the
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United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, shall be disregarded in determining the
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volume or value of member and nonmember business transacted by such association;
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(i) if engaged in marketing the products of its members, to hedge its operations;
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(j) to have a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;
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(k) to continue as a corporation for the time limited in its articles, and if no time limit
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is specified then perpetually;
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(l) to sue and be sued in its corporate name;
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(m) to conduct business in this state and elsewhere as may be permitted by law; and
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(n) to dissolve and wind up.
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Section 2.
Section
3-1-17
is amended to read:
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3-1-17. Contracts with association.
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[(I)] (1) (a) The bylaws may require members to execute contracts with the association
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in which the members agree to patronize the facilities created by the association, and to sell all
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or a specified part of their products to or through it, or to buy all or a specified part of their
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supplies from or through the association or any facilities created by it.
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(b) If the members contract to sell through the association, the fact that for certain
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purposes the relation between the association and its members may be one of agency shall not
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prevent the passage from the member to the association of absolute and exclusive title to the
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products which are the subject matter of the contract.
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(c) Such title shall pass to the association upon delivery of the product, or at any other
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time specified in the contract.
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(d) If the period of the contract exceeds three years, the bylaws and the contracts
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executed thereunder shall specify a reasonable period, not less than ten days in each year, after
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the third year, during which the member, by giving to the association such reasonable notice as
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the association may prescribe, may withdraw from the association; provided, that if the bylaws
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or contracts executed hereunder so specify, a member may not withdraw from the association
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while indebted thereto.
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(e) In the absence of such a withdrawal provision, a member may withdraw at any time
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after three years.
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[Damages for Breach.]
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[(II)] (2) The contract may fix, as liquidated damages, which shall not be regarded as
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penalties, specific sums to be paid by the members to the association upon the breach of any
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provision of the contract regarding the use of any facilities of the association or the sale,
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delivery, handling, or withholding of products; and may further provide that the member who
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breaks his contract shall pay all costs, including premiums for bonds, and reasonable attorney's
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fees, to be fixed by the court, in case the association prevails in any action upon the contract.
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[Equitable Relief.]
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[(III)] (3) (a) A court of competent jurisdiction may grant an injunction to prevent the
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breach or further breach of the contract by a member and may decree specific performance
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thereof.
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(b) Pending the adjudication of such an action and upon filing a verified complaint
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showing the breach or threatened breach, and a bond in such form and amount as may be
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approved by the court, the court may grant a temporary restraining order or preliminary
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injunction against the member.
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[Remedy Not Exclusive.]
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[(IV)] (4) No remedy, either legal or equitable, herein provided for, shall be exclusive,
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but the association may avail itself of any and all such remedies, at the same or different times,
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in any action or proceeding.
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[Landowners Presumed to Control Delivery.]
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[(V)] (5) In any action upon such marketing contracts, it shall be conclusively
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presumed that a landowner or landlord or lessor is able to control the delivery of products
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produced on his land by tenants or others, whose tenancy or possession or work on such land or
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the terms of whose tenancy or possession or labor thereon were created or changed after
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execution by the landowner or landlord or lessor of such a marketing contract; and in such
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actions, the foregoing remedies for nondelivery or breach shall lie and be enforceable against
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such landowner, landlord, or lessor.
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[Filing Contract.]
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[(VI)] (6) (a) The association may file contracts to sell agricultural products to or
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through the association in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the products
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are produced.
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(b) If the association has uniform contracts with more than one member in any county,
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it may, in lieu of filing the original contracts, file the affidavit of its president, vice president or
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secretary, containing or having attached thereto:
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[(a)] (i) a true copy of the uniform contract entered into with its members producing
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such product in that county; and
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[(b)] (ii) the names of the members who have executed such contract and a description
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of the land on which the product is produced, if such description is contained in the contract.
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(c) The association may file from time to time thereafter affidavits containing revised
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or supplementary lists of the members producing such product in that county without setting
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forth therein a copy of the uniform contract but referring to the filed or recorded copy thereof.
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(d) All affidavits filed under this section shall state in substance that they are filed
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pursuant to the provisions of this section.
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(e) The county recorder shall file such affidavits and make endorsements thereon and
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record and make entries thereof in the same manner as is required by law in the case of chattel
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mortgages, and he shall compile and make available for public inspection a convenient index
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containing the names of all signers of such contracts, and collect for his services hereunder the
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same fees as for chattel mortgages.
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(f) The filing of any such contract, or such affidavit, shall constitute constructive notice
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of the contents thereof, and of the association's title or right to the product embraced in such
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contract, to all subsequent purchasers, encumbrancers, creditors, and to all persons dealing with
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the members with reference to such product.
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(g) No title, right, or lien of any kind shall be acquired to or on the product thereafter
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except through the association or with its consent, or subject to its rights; and the association
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may recover the possession of such property from any and all subsequent purchasers,
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encumbrancers, and creditors, and those claiming under them, in whose possession the same
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may be found, by any appropriate action for the recovery of personal property, and it may have
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relief by injunction and for damages.
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Section 3.
3-1-41
is amended to read:
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3-1-41. Domestic or foreign corporations or associations -- Plan of merger --
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Articles of merger -- Certificate of merger.
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(1) (a) A Utah cooperative association owning 90% of the outstanding shares of each
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class of a foreign or domestic corporation or association may merge such other corporation or
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association into itself without the approval of the shareholders or members of either
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corporation or association.
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(b) The governing board shall, by resolution, approve a plan of merger setting forth:
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[(a)] (i) the name of the subsidiary corporation or association and the name of the
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corporation or association owning 90% or more of its shares, which is hereafter designated as
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the surviving corporation or association; and
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[(b)] (ii) the manner and basis for converting each class of shares of the subsidiary
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corporation or association into shares, obligations, or other securities of the surviving
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corporation or association, or of any other corporation or association, in whole or in part, into
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cash or other property.
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(c) A copy of the plan of merger shall be mailed to each record member or shareholder
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of the subsidiary corporation or association.
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(2) (a) Articles of merger shall be executed in triplicate by the president or vice
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president and the secretary or an assistant secretary of the surviving corporation or association
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and verified by one of its officers.
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(b) The articles of merger shall set forth:
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[(a)] (i) the plan of merger;
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[(b)] (ii) the number of outstanding shares of each class of the subsidiary corporation or
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association and the number of such shares of each class owned by the surviving corporation or
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association; and
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[(c)] (iii) the date a copy of the plan of merger was mailed to shareholders or members
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of the subsidiary corporation or association.
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(3) (a) Triplicate originals of the articles of merger shall be delivered to the Division of
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Corporations and Commercial Code on the 30th day after mailing a copy of the plan to
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shareholders or members.
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(b) If that division finds such articles conform to law and that all fees prescribed by this
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act have been paid, it shall:
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[(a)] (i) endorse on each of said triplicate originals the word "filed," together with the
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month, date, and year of filing;
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[(b)] (ii) file one of the triplicate originals with the Division of Corporations and
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Commercial Code and forward another triplicate original to the state Department of
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Agriculture and Food; and
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[(c)] (iii) issue a certificate of merger with the remaining triplicate original affixed.
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(c) The certificate of merger, together with a triplicate original of the articles of merger
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affixed by the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, shall be returned to the
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surviving corporation or association or its representative.
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(4) The merger of a foreign corporation or association into a Utah cooperative
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association shall conform to the laws of the state under which each such foreign corporation or
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association is organized.
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Section 4.
Section
7-1-104
is amended to read:
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7-1-104. Exemptions from application of title.
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(1) This title does not apply to:
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[(1)] (a) investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
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15 U.S.C. Sec. 80a-1 et seq.;
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[(2)] (b) securities brokers and dealers registered pursuant to [the]:
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(i) Title 61, Chapter 1, Utah Uniform Securities Act; or
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(ii) the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 78a et seq.;
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[(3)] (c) depository or other institutions performing transaction account services,
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including third party transactions, in connection with:
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(i) the purchase and redemption of investment company shares[,]; or [in connection
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with]
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(ii) access to a margin or cash securities account maintained by a person identified in
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Subsection [(2)] (1)(b); or
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[(4)] (d) insurance companies selling interests in an investment company or "separate
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account" and subject to regulation by the Utah Insurance Department.
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(2) (a) An institution, organization, or person is not exempt from this title if, within
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this state, it holds itself out to the public as receiving and holding deposits from residents of
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this state, whether evidenced by a certificate, promissory note, or otherwise.
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(b) An investment company is not exempt from this title unless [it] the investment
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company is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the
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Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 80a-1 et seq., and is advised by an
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investment advisor: [(a)]
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(i) which is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
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under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 80b-1 et seq.; and [(b)]
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(ii) which advises investment companies and other accounts with a combined value of
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at least $50,000,000.
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Section 5.
Section
7-7-12
is amended to read:
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7-7-12. Inspection of books and records -- Confidentiality -- Communication
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between members or stockholders.
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(1) Every member, stockholder, or borrower of an association shall have the right to
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inspect, upon paying any costs of retrieval or reproduction and upon reasonable notice and
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during regular business hours:
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(a) the books and records of the association which do not contain any confidential
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information relating to a loan, savings account, or voting rights of another member,
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stockholder, or borrower; and
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(b) such books and records of the association as pertain to [his] the member's,
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stockholder's, or borrower's own loan, savings account, or the determination of [his] the
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member's, stockholder's, or borrower's voting rights. [Otherwise,]
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(2) Except as provided in Subsection (1), the right of inspection and examination of the
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books, accounts, and records shall be limited to:
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[(i)] (a) the commissioner and supervisor, or their duly authorized representatives;
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[(ii)] (b) persons authorized to act for the association;
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[(iii)] (c) any federal or state instrumentality or agency authorized to inspect or
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examine the books and records of an insured association;
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[(iv)] (d) the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
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or their successor agencies; and
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[(v)] (e) any person acting under authority of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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[(2)] (3) Except as otherwise stated in this section, the books and records pertaining to
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the accounts, loans, and voting rights of savers, borrowers, members, and stockholders shall be
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kept confidential by the association, its directors, officers, and employees, and by the
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commissioner, the supervisor, and their examiners and representatives, unless disclosure is
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expressly or impliedly authorized by the saver, borrower, member, or stockholder.
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[(3)] (4) Each member or stockholder of an association has the right to communicate
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with other members or stockholders of the same association with reference to any question
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pending or to be presented for consideration at a meeting of the members or stockholders. A
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member or stockholder, in order to communicate with other members or stockholders, shall
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submit to the association a request, subscribed by [him] the member or stockholder, which
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includes:
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(a) [his] the member's or stockholder's full name and address;
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(b) the nature and extent of [his] the member's or stockholder's interest in the
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association at the time [his] the member's or stockholder's application for communication is
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made;
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(c) a statement of the reasons for and purposes of the communication and that the
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communication is not for any reason other than the business welfare of the association;
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(d) a copy of the communication; and
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(e) if the communication concerns a question to be raised at a meeting of the members
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or stockholders of the association, the date of the meeting at which the matter will be
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presented.
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[(4)] (5) Within ten days after receipt of the request referred to in Subsection [(3)] (4)
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the association shall notify the requesting member or stockholder of:
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(a) the approximate number of the members or stockholders and the estimated amount
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of the reasonable costs and expenses of mailing the communication; or
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(b) its determination to refuse the request and the specific reasons for its refusal,
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including its determination whether or not the request has been made for a proper purpose.
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(6) Unless the association has refused the request referred to in Subsection (5), [it] the
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association shall, within seven days after receipt of the sum specified by it under this
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[subsection] Subsection (6) and sufficient copies of the communication, mail the
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communication to all its members or stockholders.
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[(5)] (7) If a request referred to in Subsection [(3)] (4) is refused by an association, the
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requesting member or stockholder may submit [his] the member's or stockholder's request and
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the refusal [thereof] of the request to the supervisor for review. The supervisor may issue an
401
order denying the request or, if [he] the supervisor finds the request is not for any reason other
402
than the business welfare of the association and is in all other respects proper, granting the
403
request and directing the association to mail the communication to all its members or
404
stockholders in accordance with the provisions of [Subsection (4)] Subsections (5) and (6).
405
[(6)] (8) Insofar as the provisions of this section are not inconsistent with federal law,
406
[such provisions] this section shall apply to a federal [associations] association whose home
407
offices are located in this state, and to the members or stockholders [thereof] of that federal
408
association except that any review of a refusal by an association under Subsection [(4)] (5)
409
shall be tendered to the Office of Thrift Supervision or successor federal agency in the case of a
410
federal association.
411
Section 6.
Section
10-8-2
is amended to read:
412
10-8-2. Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal
413
authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property.
414
(1) (a) A municipal legislative body may:
415
(i) appropriate money for corporate purposes only;
416
(ii) provide for payment of debts and expenses of the corporation;
417
(iii) subject to Subsections (4) and (5), purchase, receive, hold, sell, lease, convey, and
418
dispose of real and personal property for the benefit of the municipality, whether the property is
419
within or without the municipality's corporate boundaries;
420
(iv) improve, protect, and do any other thing in relation to this property that an
421
individual could do; and
422
(v) subject to Subsection (2) and after first holding a public hearing, authorize
423
municipal services or other nonmonetary assistance to be provided to or waive fees required to
424
be paid by a nonprofit entity, whether or not the municipality receives consideration in return.
425
(b) A municipality may:
426
(i) furnish all necessary local public services within the municipality;
427
(ii) purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain and operate, or lease public utilities
428
located and operating within and operated by the municipality; and
429
(iii) subject to Subsection (1)(c), acquire by eminent domain, or otherwise, property
430
located inside or outside the corporate limits of the municipality and necessary for any of the
431
purposes stated in Subsections (1)(b)(i) and (ii), subject to restrictions imposed by Title 78,
432
Chapter 34, Eminent Domain, and general law for the protection of other communities.
433
(c) Each municipality that intends to acquire property by eminent domain under
434
Subsection (1)(b) shall, upon the first contact with the owner of the property sought to be
435
acquired, deliver to the owner a copy of a booklet or other materials provided by the property
436
rights ombudsman, created under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-201
, dealing with the property
437
owner's rights in an eminent domain proceeding.
438
(d) Subsection (1)(b) may not be construed to diminish any other authority a
439
municipality may claim to have under the law to acquire by eminent domain property located
440
inside or outside the municipality.
441
(2) Services or assistance provided pursuant to Subsection (1)(a)(v) is not subject to the
442
provisions of Subsection (3). The total amount of services or other nonmonetary assistance
443
provided or fees waived under Subsection (1)(a)(v) in any given fiscal year may not exceed 1%
444
of the municipality's budget for that fiscal year.
445
(3) It is considered a corporate purpose to appropriate money for any purpose that, in
446
the judgment of the municipal legislative body, provides for the safety, health, prosperity,
447
moral well-being, peace, order, comfort, or convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality
448
subject to the following:
449
(a) The net value received for any money appropriated shall be measured on a
450
project-by-project basis over the life of the project.
451
(b) The criteria for a determination under this Subsection (3) shall be established by the
452
municipality's legislative body. A determination of value received, made by the municipality's
453
legislative body, shall be presumed valid unless it can be shown that the determination was
454
arbitrary, capricious, or illegal.
455
(c) The municipality may consider intangible benefits received by the municipality in
456
determining net value received.
457
(d) Prior to the municipal legislative body making any decision to appropriate any
458
funds for a corporate purpose under this section, a public hearing shall be held. Notice of the
459
hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation at least 14 days prior to the
460
date of the hearing, or, if there is no newspaper of general circulation, by posting notice in at
461
least three conspicuous places within the municipality for the same time period.
462
(e) A study shall be performed before notice of the public hearing is given and shall be
463
made available at the municipality for review by interested parties at least 14 days immediately
464
prior to the public hearing, setting forth an analysis and demonstrating the purpose for the
465
appropriation. In making the study, the following factors shall be considered:
466
(i) what identified benefit the municipality will receive in return for any money or
467
resources appropriated;
468
(ii) the municipality's purpose for the appropriation, including an analysis of the way
469
the appropriation will be used to enhance the safety, health, prosperity, moral well-being,
470
peace, order, comfort, or convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality; and
471
(iii) whether the appropriation is necessary and appropriate to accomplish the
472
reasonable goals and objectives of the municipality in the area of economic development, job
473
creation, affordable housing, blight elimination, job preservation, the preservation of historic
474
structures and property, and any other public purpose.
475
(f) An appeal may be taken from a final decision of the municipal legislative body, to
476
make an appropriation. The appeal shall be filed within 30 days after the date of that decision,
477
to the district court. Any appeal shall be based on the record of the proceedings before the
478
legislative body. A decision of the municipal legislative body shall be presumed to be valid
479
unless the appealing party shows that the decision was arbitrary, capricious, or illegal.
480
(g) The provisions of this Subsection (3) apply only to those appropriations made after
481
May 6, 2002.
482
(h) This section shall only apply to appropriations not otherwise approved pursuant to
483
Title 10, Chapter 5, Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Towns, or Title 10, Chapter 6,
484
Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities.
485
(4) (a) Before a municipality may dispose of a significant parcel of real property, the
486
municipality shall:
487
(i) provide reasonable notice of the proposed disposition at least 14 days before the
488
opportunity for public comment under Subsection (4)(a)(ii); and
489
(ii) allow an opportunity for public comment on the proposed disposition.
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(b) Each municipality shall, by ordinance, define what constitutes:
491
(i) a significant parcel of real property for purposes of Subsection (4)(a); and
492
(ii) reasonable notice for purposes of Subsection (4)(a)(i).
493
(5) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (5)(d), each municipality intending to acquire
494
real property for the purpose of expanding the municipality's infrastructure or other facilities
495
used for providing services that the municipality offers or intends to offer shall provide written
496
notice, as provided in this Subsection (5), of its intent to acquire the property if:
497
(i) the property is located:
498
(A) outside the boundaries of the municipality; and
499
(B) in a county of the first or second class; and
500
(ii) the intended use of the property is contrary to:
501
(A) the anticipated use of the property under the general plan of the county in whose
502
unincorporated area or the municipality in whose boundaries the property is located; or
503
(B) the property's current zoning designation.
504
(b) Each notice under Subsection (5)(a) shall:
505
(i) indicate that the municipality intends to acquire real property;
506
(ii) identify the real property; and
507
(iii) be sent to:
508
(A) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
509
boundaries the property is located; and
510
(B) each affected entity.
511
(c) A notice under this Subsection (5) is a protected record as provided in Subsection
512
63-2-304
(7).
513
(d) (i) The notice requirement of Subsection (5)(a) does not apply if the municipality
514
previously provided notice under Section
10-9a-203
identifying the general location within the
515
municipality or unincorporated part of the county where the property to be acquired is located.
516
(ii) If a municipality is not required to comply with the notice requirement of
517
Subsection (5)(a) because of application of Subsection (5)(d)(i), the municipality shall provide
518
the notice specified in Subsection (5)(a) as soon as practicable after its acquisition of the real
519
property.
520
Section 7.
Section
10-9a-801
is amended to read:
521
10-9a-801. No district court review until administrative remedies exhausted --
522
Time for filing -- Tolling of time -- Standards governing court review -- Record on review
523
-- Staying of decision.
524
(1) No person may challenge in district court a municipality's land use decision made
525
under this chapter, or under a regulation made under authority of this chapter, until that person
526
has exhausted the person's administrative remedies as provided in Part 7, Appeal Authority and
527
Variances, if applicable.
528
(2) (a) Any person adversely affected by a final decision made in the exercise of or in
529
violation of the provisions of this chapter may file a petition for review of the decision with the
530
district court within 30 days after the local land use decision is final.
531
(b) (i) The time under Subsection (2)(a) to file a petition is tolled from the date a
532
property owner files a request for arbitration of a constitutional taking issue with the property
533
rights ombudsman under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-204
until 30 days after:
534
(A) the arbitrator issues a final award; or
535
(B) the property rights ombudsman issues a written statement under Subsection
536
[
63-34-13
(4)]
13-43-204
(3)(b) declining to arbitrate or to appoint an arbitrator.
537
(ii) A tolling under Subsection (2)(b)(i) operates only as to the specific constitutional
538
taking issue that is the subject of the request for arbitration filed with the property rights
539
ombudsman by a property owner.
540
(iii) A request for arbitration filed with the property rights ombudsman after the time
541
under Subsection (2)(a) to file a petition has expired does not affect the time to file a petition.
542
(3) (a) The courts shall:
543
(i) presume that a decision, ordinance, or regulation made under the authority of this
544
chapter is valid; and
545
(ii) determine only whether or not the decision, ordinance, or regulation is arbitrary,
546
capricious, or illegal.
547
(b) A decision, ordinance, or regulation involving the exercise of legislative discretion
548
is valid if the decision, ordinance, or regulation is reasonably debatable and not illegal.
549
(c) A final decision of a land use authority or an appeal authority is valid if the decision
550
is supported by substantial evidence in the record and is not arbitrary, capricious, or illegal.
551
(d) A determination of illegality requires a determination that the decision, ordinance,
552
or regulation violates a law, statute, or ordinance in effect at the time the decision was made or
553
the ordinance or regulation adopted.
554
(4) The provisions of Subsection (2)(a) apply from the date on which the municipality
555
takes final action on a land use application for any adversely affected third party, if the
556
municipality conformed with the notice provisions of Part 2, Notice, or for any person who had
557
actual notice of the pending decision.
558
(5) If the municipality has complied with Section
10-9a-205
, a challenge to the
559
enactment of a land use ordinance or general plan may not be filed with the district court more
560
than 30 days after the enactment.
561
(6) The petition is barred unless it is filed within 30 days after the appeal authority's
562
decision is final.
563
(7) (a) The land use authority or appeal authority, as the case may be, shall transmit to
564
the reviewing court the record of its proceedings, including its minutes, findings, orders, and, if
565
available, a true and correct transcript of its proceedings.
566
(b) If the proceeding was tape recorded, a transcript of that tape recording is a true and
567
correct transcript for purposes of this Subsection (7).
568
(8) (a) (i) If there is a record, the district court's review is limited to the record provided
569
by the land use authority or appeal authority, as the case may be.
570
(ii) The court may not accept or consider any evidence outside the record of the land
571
use authority or appeal authority, as the case may be, unless that evidence was offered to the
572
land use authority or appeal authority, respectively, and the court determines that it was
573
improperly excluded.
574
(b) If there is no record, the court may call witnesses and take evidence.
575
(9) (a) The filing of a petition does not stay the decision of the land use authority or
576
authority appeal authority, as the case may be.
577
(b) (i) Before filing a petition under this section or a request for mediation or
578
arbitration of a constitutional taking issue under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-204
, the aggrieved
579
party may petition the appeal authority to stay its decision.
580
(ii) Upon receipt of a petition to stay, the appeal authority may order its decision stayed
581
pending district court review if the appeal authority finds it to be in the best interest of the
582
municipality.
583
(iii) After a petition is filed under this section or a request for mediation or arbitration
584
of a constitutional taking issue is filed under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-204
, the petitioner may
585
seek an injunction staying the appeal authority's decision.
586
Section 8.
Section
11-13-314
is amended to read:
587
11-13-314. Eminent domain authority of certain commercial project entities.
588
(1) (a) Subject to Subsection (2), a commercial project entity that existed as a project
589
entity before January 1, 1980 may, with respect to a project or facilities providing additional
590
project capacity in which the commercial project entity has an interest, acquire property within
591
the state through eminent domain, subject to restrictions imposed by Title 78, Chapter 34,
592
Eminent Domain, and general law for the protection of other communities.
593
(b) Subsection (1)(a) may not be construed to:
594
(i) give a project entity the authority to acquire water rights by eminent domain; or
595
(ii) diminish any other authority a project entity may claim to have under the law to
596
acquire property by eminent domain.
597
(2) Each project entity that intends to acquire property by eminent domain under
598
Subsection (1)(a) shall, upon the first contact with the owner of the property sought to be
599
acquired, deliver to the owner a copy of a booklet or other materials provided by the property
600
rights ombudsman, created under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-201
, dealing with the property
601
owner's rights in an eminent domain proceeding.
602
Section 9.
13-5-9
is amended to read:
603
13-5-9. Transactions involving more than one item -- Limitation on quantity of
604
article or product sold or offered for sale to any one customer.
605
(1) For the purpose of preventing evasion of this [act] chapter in all sales involving
606
more than one item or commodity the vendor's or distributor's selling price shall not be below
607
the cost of all articles, products, and commodities included in such transactions. Each article,
608
product, or commodity individually advertised or offered for sale, shall be individually subject
609
to the requirements of Section
13-5-7
, when sold with other articles, products, or commodities.
610
(2) Under this section, proof of limitation of the quantity of any article or product sold
611
or offered for sale to any one customer of a quantity less than the entire supply thereof owned
612
or possessed by the seller or which he is otherwise authorized to sell at the place of such sale or
613
offering for sale, together with proof that the price at which the article or product is so sold or
614
offered for sale is in fact below its cost, raises a presumption of the purpose or the intent of the
615
sale being to injure competitors or destroy competition, and is unlawful. This section applies
616
only to sales by persons conducting a retail business, the principal part of which involves the
617
resale to consumers of commodities purchased or acquired for that purpose, as distinguished
618
from persons principally engaged in the sale to consumers of commodities of their own
619
production or manufacture.
620
(3) There shall be no circumvention of the provisions of this [act] chapter relating to
621
the quantity of articles or products any one customer may purchase by requiring presentation of
622
coupons, certificates, special purchase authorizations, or any other procedures designed in any
623
way to limit quantity of purchases as provided herein.
624
Section 10.
13-11a-3
is amended to read:
625
13-11a-3. Deceptive trade practices enumerated -- Records to be kept -- Defenses.
626
(1) Deceptive trade practices occur when, in the course of his business, vocation, or
627
occupation:
628
(a) A person passes off goods or services as those of another.
629
(b) A person causes likelihood of confusion or of misunderstanding as to the source,
630
sponsorship, approval, or certification of goods or services.
631
(c) A person causes likelihood of confusion or of misunderstanding as to affiliation,
632
connection, association with, or certification by another.
633
(d) A person uses deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in
634
connection with goods or services.
635
(e) A person represents that goods or services have sponsorship, approval,
636
characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or qualities that they do not have or that a person has
637
a sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation, or connection that he does not have.
638
(f) A person represents that goods are original or new if they are deteriorated, altered,
639
reconditioned, reclaimed, used, or second-hand.
640
(g) A person represents that goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, or
641
grade, or that goods are of a particular style or model, if they are of another.
642
(h) A person disparages the goods, services, or business of another by false or
643
misleading representation of fact.
644
(i) A person advertises goods or services or the price of goods and services with intent
645
not to sell them as advertised. If specific advertised prices will be in effect for less than one
646
week from the advertisement date, the advertisement must clearly and conspicuously disclose
647
the specific time period during which the prices will be in effect.
648
(j) A person advertises goods or services with intent not to supply a reasonable
649
expectable public demand, unless:
650
(i) the advertisement clearly and conspicuously discloses a limitation of quantity; or
651
(ii) the person issues rainchecks for the advertised goods or services.
652
(k) A person makes false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for,
653
existence of, or amounts of price reductions.
654
(l) A person makes a comparison between his own sale or discount price and a
655
competitor's nondiscounted price without clearly and conspicuously disclosing that fact.
656
(m) A person, without clearly and conspicuously disclosing the date of the price
657
assessment makes a price comparison with the goods of another based upon a price assessment
658
performed more than seven days prior to the date of the advertisement or uses in an
659
advertisement the results of a price assessment performed more than seven days prior to the
660
date of the advertisement without disclosing, in a print ad, the date of the price assessment, or
661
in a radio or television ad, the time frame of the price assessment.
662
(n) A person advertises or uses in a price assessment or comparison a price that is not
663
his own unless this fact is:
664
(i) clearly and conspicuously disclosed; and
665
(ii) the representation of the price is accurate. With respect to the price of a
666
competitor, the price must be one at which the competitor offered the goods or services for sale
667
in the product area at the time of the price assessment, and must not be an isolated price.
668
(o) A person represents as independent an audit, accounting, price assessment, or
669
comparison of prices of goods or services, when such audit, accounting, price assessment, or
670
comparison is not independent. Such audit, accounting, price assessment, or comparison shall
671
be independent if the price assessor randomly selects the goods to be compared, and the time
672
and place of such comparison, and no agreement or understanding exists between the supplier
673
and the price assessor that could cause the results of the assessment to be fraudulent or
674
deceptive. The independence of such audit, accounting, or price comparison is not invalidated
675
merely because the advertiser pays a fee therefor, but is invalidated if the audit, accounting, or
676
price comparison is done by a full or part time employee of the advertiser.
677
(p) A person represents, in an advertisement of a reduction from the supplier's own
678
prices, that the reduction is from a regular price, when the former price is not a regular price as
679
defined in Subsection
13-11a-2
(12).
680
(q) A person advertises a price comparison or the result of a price assessment or
681
comparison that uses, in any way, an identified competitor's price without clearly and
682
conspicuously disclosing the identity of the price assessor and any relationship between the
683
price assessor and the supplier. Examples of disclosure complying with this section are: "Price
684
assessment performed by Store Z"; "Price assessment performed by a certified public
685
accounting firm"; "Price assessment performed by employee of Store Y."
686
(r) A person makes a price comparison between a category of the supplier's goods and
687
the same category of the goods of another, without randomly selecting the individual goods or
688
services upon whose prices the comparison is based. For the purposes of this subsection,
689
goods or services are randomly selected when the supplier has no advance knowledge of what
690
goods and services will be surveyed by the price assessor, and when the supplier certifies its
691
lack of advance knowledge by an affidavit to be retained in the supplier's records for one year.
692
(s) A person makes a comparison between similar but nonidentical goods or services
693
unless the nonidentical goods or services are of essentially similar quality to the advertised
694
goods or services or the dissimilar aspects are clearly and conspicuously disclosed in the
695
advertisements.
696
(i) It is prima facie evidence of compliance with [this] Subsection (1)(s) if:
697
[(i)] (A) the goods compared are substantially the same size; and
698
[(ii)] (B) the goods compared are of substantially the same quality, which may include
699
similar models of competing brands of goods, or goods made of substantially the same
700
materials and made with substantially the same workmanship.
701
(ii) It is prima facie evidence of a deceptive comparison under [this section] Subsection
702
(1)(s) when the prices of brand name goods and generic goods are compared.
703
(t) A person engages in any other conduct which similarly creates a likelihood of
704
confusion or of misunderstanding.
705
(2) Any supplier who makes a comparison with a competitor's price in advertising shall
706
maintain for a period of one year records that disclose the factual basis for such price
707
comparisons and from which the validity of such claim can be established.
708
(3) It [shall be] is a defense to any claim of false or deceptive price representations
709
under this chapter that a person:
710
(a) has no knowledge that the represented price is not genuine; and
711
(b) has made reasonable efforts to determine whether the represented price is genuine.
712
(4) Subsections (1)(m) and (q) do not apply to price comparisons made in catalogs in
713
which a supplier compares the price of a single item of its goods or services with those of
714
another.
715
(5) In order to prevail in an action under this chapter, a complainant need not prove
716
competition between the parties or actual confusion or misunderstanding.
717
(6) This chapter does not affect unfair trade practices otherwise actionable at common
718
law or under other statutes of this state.
719
Section 11.
13-21-7
is amended to read:
720
13-21-7. Written contracts required -- Contents -- Notice of cancellation of
721
contract.
722
(1) Each contract between the buyer and a credit services organization for the purchase
723
of the services of the credit services organization shall be in writing, dated, signed by the buyer,
724
and include all of the following:
725
(a) a conspicuous statement in bold type, in immediate proximity to the space reserved
726
for the signature of the buyer, as follows: "You, the buyer, may cancel this contract at any time
727
prior to midnight of the fifth day after the date of the transaction. See the attached notice of
728
cancellation form for an explanation of this right.";
729
(b) the terms and conditions of payment, including the total of all payments to be made
730
by the buyer, whether to the credit services organization or to some other person;
731
(c) a full and detailed description of the services to be performed by the credit services
732
organization for the buyer, including all guarantees and all promises of full or partial refunds,
733
and the estimated date by which the services are to be performed, or estimated length of time
734
for performing the services; and
735
(d) the credit services organization's principal business address and the name and
736
address of its agent, in Utah, authorized to receive service of process.
737
(2) The contract shall be accompanied by a completed form in duplicate, captioned
738
"Notice of Cancellation," which shall be attached to the contract and easily detachable, and
739
which shall contain in bold type the following statement written in the same language as used
740
in the contract:
741
"Notice of Cancellation
742
You may cancel this contract, without any penalty or obligation, within five days from
743
the date the contract is signed.
744
If you cancel, any payment made by you under this contract will be returned within 10
745
days following receipt by the seller of your cancellation notice.
746
To cancel this contract, mail or deliver a signed dated copy of this cancellation notice,
747
or any other written notice, to _____(name of seller)_____at _____(address of seller)_____
748
(place of business)_____ not later than midnight _____(date)_____.
749
I hereby cancel this transaction.
750
_______________(date)
751
__________________________________________________________
752
(purchaser's signature)"
753
(3) The credit services organization shall give to the buyer a copy of the completed
754
contract and all other documents the credit services organization requires the buyer to sign at
755
the time they are signed.
756
Section 12.
Section
16-6a-822
is amended to read:
757
16-6a-822. General standards of conduct for directors and officers.
758
(1) (a) A director shall discharge the director's duties as a director, including the
759
director's duties as a member of a committee of the board, in accordance with Subsection (2).
760
(b) An officer with discretionary authority shall discharge the officer's duties under that
761
authority in accordance with Subsection (2).
762
(2) A director or an officer described in Subsection (1) shall discharge the director or
763
officer's duties:
764
(a) in good faith;
765
(b) with the care an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under
766
similar circumstances; and
767
(c) in a manner the director or officer reasonably believes to be in the best interests of
768
the nonprofit corporation.
769
(3) In discharging duties, a director or officer is entitled to rely on information,
770
opinions, reports, or statements, including financial statements and other financial data, if
771
prepared or presented by:
772
(a) one or more officers or employees of the nonprofit corporation whom the director
773
or officer reasonably believes to be reliable and competent in the matters presented;
774
(b) legal counsel, a public accountant, or another person as to matters the director or
775
officer reasonably believes are within the person's professional or expert competence;
776
(c) religious authorities or ministers, priests, rabbis, or other persons:
777
(i) whose position or duties in the nonprofit corporation, or in a religious organization
778
with which the nonprofit corporation is affiliated, the director or officer believes justify
779
reliance and confidence; and
780
(ii) who the director or officer believes to be reliable and competent in the matters
781
presented; or
782
(d) in the case of a director, a committee of the board of directors of which the director
783
is not a member if the director reasonably believes the committee merits confidence.
784
(4) A director or officer is not acting in good faith if the director or officer has
785
knowledge concerning the matter in question that makes reliance otherwise permitted by
786
Subsection (3) unwarranted.
787
(5) A director, regardless of title, may not be considered to be a trustee with respect to
788
any property held or administered by the nonprofit corporation including property that may be
789
subject to restrictions imposed by the donor or transferor of the property.
790
(6) A director or officer is not liable to the nonprofit corporation, its members, or any
791
conservator or receiver, or any assignee or successor-in-interest of the nonprofit corporation or
792
member, for any action taken, or any failure to take any action, as an officer or director, as the
793
case may be, unless:
794
(a) the director or officer has breached or failed to perform the duties of the office as
795
set forth in this section; and
796
(b) the breach or failure to perform constitutes:
797
(i) willful misconduct; or
798
(ii) intentional infliction of harm on:
799
(A) the nonprofit corporation; or
800
(B) the members of the nonprofit corporation; or
801
(iii) [the breach or failure to perform constitutes] gross negligence.
802
Section 13.
Section
17-27a-801
is amended to read:
803
17-27a-801. No district court review until administrative remedies exhausted --
804
Time for filing -- Tolling of time -- Standards governing court review -- Record on review
805
-- Staying of decision.
806
(1) No person may challenge in district court a county's land use decision made under
807
this chapter, or under a regulation made under authority of this chapter, until that person has
808
exhausted the person's administrative remedies as provided in Part 7, Appeal Authority and
809
Variances, if applicable.
810
(2) (a) Any person adversely affected by a final decision made in the exercise of or in
811
violation of the provisions of this chapter may file a petition for review of the decision with the
812
district court within 30 days after the local land use decision is final.
813
(b) (i) The time under Subsection (2)(a) to file a petition is tolled from the date a
814
property owner files a request for arbitration of a constitutional taking issue with the property
815
rights ombudsman under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-204
until 30 days after:
816
(A) the arbitrator issues a final award; or
817
(B) the property rights ombudsman issues a written statement under Subsection
818
[
63-34-13
(4)]
13-43-204
(3)(b) declining to arbitrate or to appoint an arbitrator.
819
(ii) A tolling under Subsection (2)(b)(i) operates only as to the specific constitutional
820
taking issue that is the subject of the request for arbitration filed with the property rights
821
ombudsman by a property owner.
822
(iii) A request for arbitration filed with the property rights ombudsman after the time
823
under Subsection (2)(a) to file a petition has expired does not affect the time to file a petition.
824
(3) (a) The courts shall:
825
(i) presume that a decision, ordinance, or regulation made under the authority of this
826
chapter is valid; and
827
(ii) determine only whether or not the decision, ordinance, or regulation is arbitrary,
828
capricious, or illegal.
829
(b) A decision, ordinance, or regulation involving the exercise of legislative discretion
830
is valid if the decision, ordinance, or regulation is reasonably debatable and not illegal.
831
(c) A final decision of a land use authority or an appeal authority is valid if the decision
832
is supported by substantial evidence in the record and is not arbitrary, capricious, or illegal.
833
(d) A determination of illegality requires a determination that the decision, ordinance,
834
or regulation violates a law, statute, or ordinance in effect at the time the decision was made or
835
the ordinance or regulation adopted.
836
(4) The provisions of Subsection (2)(a) apply from the date on which the county takes
837
final action on a land use application for any adversely affected third party, if the county
838
conformed with the notice provisions of Part 2, Notice, or for any person who had actual notice
839
of the pending decision.
840
(5) If the county has complied with Section
17-27a-205
, a challenge to the enactment
841
of a land use ordinance or general plan may not be filed with the district court more than 30
842
days after the enactment.
843
(6) The petition is barred unless it is filed within 30 days after land use authority or the
844
appeal authority's decision is final.
845
(7) (a) The land use authority or appeal authority, as the case may be, shall transmit to
846
the reviewing court the record of its proceedings, including its minutes, findings, orders and, if
847
available, a true and correct transcript of its proceedings.
848
(b) If the proceeding was tape recorded, a transcript of that tape recording is a true and
849
correct transcript for purposes of this Subsection (7).
850
(8) (a) (i) If there is a record, the district court's review is limited to the record provided
851
by the land use authority or appeal authority, as the case may be.
852
(ii) The court may not accept or consider any evidence outside the record of the land
853
use authority or appeal authority, as the case may be, unless that evidence was offered to the
854
land use authority or appeal authority, respectively, and the court determines that it was
855
improperly excluded.
856
(b) If there is no record, the court may call witnesses and take evidence.
857
(9) (a) The filing of a petition does not stay the decision of the land use authority or
858
appeal authority, as the case may be.
859
(b) (i) Before filing a petition under this section or a request for mediation or
860
arbitration of a constitutional taking issue under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-204
, the aggrieved
861
party may petition the appeal authority to stay its decision.
862
(ii) Upon receipt of a petition to stay, the appeal authority may order its decision stayed
863
pending district court review if the appeal authority finds it to be in the best interest of the
864
county.
865
(iii) After a petition is filed under this section or a request for mediation or arbitration
866
of a constitutional taking issue is filed under Section [
63-34-13
]
13-43-204
, the petitioner may
867
seek an injunction staying the appeal authority's decision.
868
Section 14.
Section
17A-2-412
is amended to read:
869
17A-2-412. Service area considered body corporate -- Powers.
870
(1) Upon its creation, a county service area is a body corporate and politic and a
871
quasi-municipal public corporation.
872
(2) A county service area may:
873
(a) exercise all powers of eminent domain possessed by counties in Utah in the manner
874
provided by law for the exercise of eminent domain power by counties;
875
(b) sue and be sued;
876
(c) enter into contracts considered desirable by the board of trustees of the service area
877
to carry out the functions of the service area including contracts with municipal corporations,
878
counties or other public corporations, county service areas or districts;
879
(d) impose and collect charges or fees for any commodities, services, or facilities
880
afforded by the service area to its consumers and pledge all or any part of the revenues so
881
derived to the payment of any bonds of the service area, whether the bonds are issued as
882
revenue bonds or as general obligations of the service area;
883
(e) sell, lease, mortgage, encumber or otherwise dispose of any properties, including
884
water and water rights, owned by the service area upon such terms and conditions as the board
885
of trustees may determine;
886
(f) own any and all property or interests in property, including water and water rights,
887
that the board of trustees considers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the
888
service area and acquire property or interests in property by purchase, lease, gift, devise, or
889
bequest;
890
(g) request the county executive to utilize any existing county offices, officers, or
891
employees for purposes of the service area when in the opinion of the board of trustees it is
892
advisable to do so;
893
(h) employ officers, employees, and agents including attorneys, accountants, engineers,
894
and fiscal agents, and fix their compensation;
895
(i) [(A)] (i) require officers and employees charged with the handling of funds to
896
furnish good and sufficient surety bonds; or
897
[(B)] (ii) purchase a blanket surety bond for all officers and employees;
898
(j) fix the times for holding regular meetings;
899
(k) adopt an official seal; and
900
(l) adopt bylaws and regulations for the conduct of its business and affairs.
901
(3) (a) If the county service area issues revenue bonds payable solely from the revenue
902
of commodities, services, and facilities, the fees and charges imposed shall always be sufficient
903
to carry out the provisions of the resolution authorizing the bonds.
904
(b) The board of trustees may take necessary action and adopt regulations to assure the
905
collection and enforcement of all fees and charges imposed.
906
(c) If the county service area furnishes more than one commodity, service, or facility,
907
the board of trustees may bill for the fees and charges for all commodities, services, and
908
facilities in a single bill.
909
(d) The board of trustees may suspend furnishing commodities, services, or facilities to
910
a consumer if the consumer fails to pay all fees and charges when due.
911
(4) Except for services rendered by the county executive, a county may charge the
912
county service area a reasonable amount for services rendered pursuant to a request under
913
Subsection (2)(g).
914
Section 15.
Section
23-13-1
is amended to read:
915
23-13-1. Title.
916
This [act shall be] title is known [and may be cited] as the "Wildlife Resources Code of
917
Utah."
918
Section 16.
Section
26-18-503
is amended to read:
919
26-18-503. Authorization to renew, transfer, or increase Medicaid certified
920
programs.
921
(1) The division may renew Medicaid certification of a certified program if the
922
program, without lapse in service to Medicaid recipients, has its nursing care facility program
923
certified by the division at the same physical facility.
924
(2) (a) The division may issue a Medicaid certification for a new nursing care facility
925
program if a current owner of the Medicaid certified program transfers its ownership of the
926
Medicaid certification to the new nursing care facility program and the new nursing care
927
facility program meets all of the following conditions:
928
(i) the new nursing care facility program operates at the same physical facility as the
929
previous Medicaid certified program;
930
(ii) the new nursing care facility program gives a written assurance to the director in
931
accordance with Subsection (4); and
932
(iii) the new nursing care facility program receives the Medicaid certification within
933
one year of the date the previously certified program ceased to provide medical assistance to a
934
Medicaid recipient.
935
(b) A nursing care facility program that receives Medicaid certification under the
936
provisions of Subsection (2)(a) does not assume the Medicaid liabilities of the previous nursing
937
care facility program if the new nursing care facility program:
938
(i) is not owned in whole or in part by the previous nursing care facility program; or
939
(ii) is not a successor in interest of the previous nursing care facility program.
940
(3) The division may issue a Medicaid certification to a nursing care facility program
941
that was previously a certified program but now resides in a new or renovated physical facility
942
if the nursing care facility program meets all of the following:
943
(a) the nursing care facility program met all applicable requirements for Medicaid
944
certification at the time of closure;
945
(b) the new or renovated physical facility is in the same county or within a five-mile
946
radius of the original physical facility;
947
(c) the time between which the certified program ceased to operate in the original
948
facility and will begin to operate in the new physical facility is not more than three years;
949
(d) if Subsection (3)(c) applies, the certified program notifies the department within 90
950
days after ceasing operations in its original facility, of its intent to retain its Medicaid
951
certification;
952
(e) the provider gives written assurance to the director in accordance with Subsection
953
(4) that no third party has a legitimate claim to operate a certified program at the previous
954
physical facility; and
955
(f) the bed capacity in the physical facility that will be used for additional Medicaid
956
certification has not been expanded by more than 30% over the previously certified program's
957
bed capacity, unless the director has approved additional beds in accordance with Subsection
958
(5).
959
(4) (a) The entity requesting Medicaid certification under Subsections (2) and (3) must
960
give written assurances satisfactory to the director or his designee that:
961
(i) no third party has a legitimate claim to operate the certified program;
962
(ii) the requesting entity agrees to defend and indemnify the department against any
963
claims by a third party who may assert a right to operate the certified program; and
964
(iii) if a third party is found, by final agency action of the department after exhaustion
965
of all administrative and judicial appeal rights, to be entitled to operate a certified program at
966
the physical facility the certified program shall voluntarily comply with Subsection (4)(b).
967
(b) If a finding is made under the provisions of Subsection (4)(a)(iii):
968
(i) the certified program shall immediately surrender its Medicaid certification and
969
comply with division rules regarding billing for Medicaid and the provision of services to
970
Medicaid patients; and
971
(ii) the department shall transfer the surrendered Medicaid certification to the third
972
party who prevailed under Subsection (4)(a)(iii).
973
(5) (a) As provided in Subsection [
26-21-502
]
26-18-502
(2)(b), the director shall issue
974
additional Medicaid certification when requested by a nursing care facility or other interested
975
party if there is insufficient bed capacity with current certified programs in a service area. A
976
determination of insufficient bed capacity shall be based on the nursing care facility or other
977
interested party providing reasonable evidence of an inadequate number of beds in the county
978
or group of counties impacted by the requested Medicaid certification based on:
979
(i) current demographics which demonstrate nursing care facility occupancy levels of at
980
least 90% for all existing and proposed facilities within a prospective three-year period;
981
(ii) current nursing care facility occupancy levels of 90%; or
982
(iii) no other nursing care facility within a 35-mile radius of the nursing care facility
983
requesting the additional certification.
984
(b) In addition to the requirements of Subsection (5)(a), a nursing care facility program
985
must demonstrate by an independent analysis that the nursing care facility can financially
986
support itself at an after tax break-even net income level based on projected occupancy levels.
987
(c) When making a determination to certify additional beds or an additional nursing
988
care facility program under Subsection (5)(a):
989
(i) the director shall consider whether the nursing care facility will offer specialized or
990
unique services that are underserved in a service area;
991
(ii) the director shall consider whether any Medicaid certified beds are subject to a
992
claim by a previous certified program that may reopen under the provisions of Subsections (2)
993
and (3); and
994
(iii) the director may consider how to add additional capacity to the long-term care
995
delivery system to best meet the needs of Medicaid recipients.
996
Section 17.
Section
26-34-2
is amended to read:
997
26-34-2. Definition of death -- Determination of death.
998
(1) An individual [who] is dead if the individual has sustained either:
999
(a) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; or
1000
(b) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem[;].
1001
[is dead.]
1002
(2) A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical
1003
standards.
1004
Section 18.
Section
26-39-104
is amended to read:
1005
26-39-104. Duties of the department.
1006
(1) With regard to child care programs licensed under this chapter, the department
1007
may:
1008
(a) make and enforce rules to implement this chapter and, as necessary to protect
1009
children's common needs for a safe and healthy environment, to provide for:
1010
(i) adequate facilities and equipment; and
1011
(ii) competent caregivers considering the age of the children and the type of program
1012
offered by the licensee;
1013
(b) make and enforce rules necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, in the
1014
following areas:
1015
(i) requirements for applications, the application process, and compliance with other
1016
applicable statutes and rules;
1017
(ii) documentation and policies and procedures that providers shall have in place in
1018
order to be licensed, in accordance with Subsection (1)(a);
1019
(iii) categories, classifications, and duration of initial and ongoing licenses;
1020
(iv) changes of ownership or name, changes in licensure status, and changes in
1021
operational status;
1022
(v) license expiration and renewal, contents, and posting requirements;
1023
(vi) procedures for inspections, complaint resolution, disciplinary actions, and other
1024
procedural measures to encourage and assure compliance with statute and rule; and
1025
(vii) guidelines necessary to assure consistency and appropriateness in the regulation
1026
and discipline of licensees; and
1027
(c) set and collect licensing and other fees in accordance with Section
26-1-6
.
1028
(2) (a) The department may not regulate educational curricula, academic methods, or
1029
the educational philosophy or approach of the provider.
1030
(b) The department shall allow for a broad range of educational training and academic
1031
background in certification or qualification of child day care directors.
1032
(3) In licensing and regulating child care programs, the department shall reasonably
1033
balance the benefits and burdens of each regulation and, by rule, provide for a range of
1034
licensure, depending upon the needs and different levels and types of child care provided.
1035
(4) Notwithstanding the definition of "child" in Subsection
26-39-102
(1), the
1036
department shall count children through age 12 and children with disabilities through age 18
1037
toward the minimum square footage requirement for indoor and outdoor areas, including the
1038
child of:
1039
(a) a licensed residential child care provider; or
1040
(b) an owner or employee of a licensed child care center.
1041
(5) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(a)(i), the department may not exclude floor space
1042
used for furniture, fixtures, or equipment from the minimum square footage requirement for
1043
indoor and outdoor areas if the furniture, fixture, or equipment is used:
1044
(a) by children;
1045
(b) for the care of children; or
1046
(c) to store classroom materials.
1047
(6) (a) A child care center constructed prior to January 1, 2004, and licensed and
1048
operated as a child care center continuously since January 1, 2004, is exempt from the
1049
[department for] department's group size restrictions, if the child to caregiver ratios are
1050
maintained, and adequate square footage is maintained for specific classrooms.
1051
(b) An exemption granted under Subsection (6)(a) is transferrable to subsequent
1052
licensed operators at the center if a licensed child care center is continuously maintained at the
1053
center.
1054
(7) The department shall develop, by rule, a five-year phased-in compliance schedule
1055
for playground equipment safety standards.
1056
Section 19.
Section
31A-16-105
is amended to read:
1057
31A-16-105. Registration of insurers.
1058
(1) (a) Every insurer which is authorized to do business in this state and which is a
1059
member of an insurance holding company system shall register with the commissioner, except
1060
a foreign insurer subject to registration requirements and standards adopted by statute or
1061
regulation in the jurisdiction of its domicile, if the requirements and standards are substantially
1062
similar to those contained in this section, Subsections
31A-16-106
(1)(a) and (2) and either
1063
Subsection
31A-16-106
(1)(b) or a statutory provision similar to the following: "Each registered
1064
insurer shall keep current the information required to be disclosed in its registration statement
1065
by reporting all material changes or additions within 15 days after the end of the month in
1066
which it learns of each change or addition."
1067
(b) Any insurer which is subject to registration under this section shall register within
1068
15 days after it becomes subject to registration, and annually thereafter by May 1 of each year
1069
for the previous calendar year, unless the commissioner for good cause extends the time for
1070
registration and then at the end of the extended time period. The commissioner may require
1071
any insurer authorized to do business in the state, which is a member of a holding company
1072
system, and which is not subject to registration under this section, to furnish a copy of the
1073
registration statement, the summary specified in Subsection (3), or any other information filed
1074
by the insurer with the insurance regulatory authority of domiciliary jurisdiction.
1075
(2) Every insurer subject to registration shall file the registration statement on a form
1076
prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which shall contain the
1077
following current information:
1078
(a) the capital structure, general financial condition, and ownership and management of
1079
the insurer and any person controlling the insurer;
1080
(b) the identity and relationship of every member of the insurance holding company
1081
system;
1082
(c) any of the following agreements in force, and transactions currently outstanding or
1083
which have occurred during the last calendar year between the insurer and its affiliates:
1084
(i) loans, other investments, or purchases, sales or exchanges of securities of the
1085
affiliates by the insurer or of securities of the insurer by its affiliates;
1086
(ii) purchases, sales, or exchanges of assets;
1087
(iii) transactions not in the ordinary course of business;
1088
(iv) guarantees or undertakings for the benefit of an affiliate which result in an actual
1089
contingent exposure of the insurer's assets to liability, other than insurance contracts entered
1090
into in the ordinary course of the insurer's business;
1091
(v) all management agreements, service contracts, and all cost-sharing arrangements;
1092
(vi) reinsurance agreements;
1093
(vii) dividends and other distributions to shareholders; and
1094
[(ix)] (viii) consolidated tax allocation agreements;
1095
(d) any pledge of the insurer's stock, including stock of any subsidiary or controlling
1096
affiliate, for a loan made to any member of the insurance holding company system; and
1097
(e) any other matters concerning transactions between registered insurers and any
1098
affiliates as may be included in any subsequent registration forms adopted or approved by the
1099
commissioner.
1100
(3) All registration statements shall contain a summary outlining all items in the
1101
current registration statement representing changes from the prior registration statement.
1102
(4) No information need be disclosed on the registration statement filed pursuant to
1103
Subsection (2) if the information is not material for the purposes of this section. Unless the
1104
commissioner by rule or order provides otherwise, sales, purchases, exchanges, loans or
1105
extensions of credit, investments, or guarantees involving one-half of 1%, or less, of an
1106
insurer's admitted assets as of the next preceding December 31 may not be considered material
1107
for purposes of this section.
1108
(5) Any person within an insurance holding company system subject to registration
1109
shall provide complete and accurate information to an insurer if the information is reasonably
1110
necessary to enable the insurer to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
1111
(6) The commissioner shall terminate the registration of any insurer which
1112
demonstrates that it no longer is a member of an insurance holding company system.
1113
(7) The commissioner may require or allow two or more affiliated insurers subject to
1114
registration under this section to file a consolidated registration statement.
1115
(8) The commissioner may allow an insurer which is authorized to do business in this
1116
state, and which is part of an insurance holding company system, to register on behalf of any
1117
affiliated insurer which is required to register under Subsection (1) and to file all information
1118
and material required to be filed under this section.
1119
(9) The provisions of this section do not apply to any insurer, information, or
1120
transaction if, and to the extent that, the commissioner by rule or order exempts the insurer
1121
from the provisions of this section.
1122
(10) Any person may file with the commissioner a disclaimer of affiliation with any
1123
authorized insurer, or a disclaimer of affiliation may be filed by any insurer or any member of
1124
an insurance holding company system. The disclaimer shall fully disclose all material
1125
relationships and bases for affiliation between the person and the insurer as well as the basis for
1126
disclaiming the affiliation. After a disclaimer has been filed, the insurer shall be relieved of
1127
any duty to register or report under this section which may arise out of the insurer's relationship
1128
with the person unless and until the commissioner disallows the disclaimer. The commissioner
1129
shall disallow a disclaimer only after furnishing all parties in interest with notice and
1130
opportunity to be heard, and after making specific findings of fact to support the disallowance.
1131
(11) The failure to file a registration statement or any summary of the registration
1132
statement required by this section within the time specified for the filing is a violation of this
1133
section.
1134
Section 20.
Section
31A-17-402
is amended to read:
1135
31A-17-402. Valuation of liabilities.
1136
(1) Subject to this section, the commissioner shall make rules:
1137
(a) specifying the liabilities required to be reported by an insurer in a financial
1138
statement submitted under Section
31A-2-202
; and
1139
(b) the methods of valuing the liabilities described in Subsection (1)(a).
1140
(2) For life insurance, the methods of valuing specified pursuant to Subsection (1)(b)
1141
shall be consistent with Part 5, Standard Valuation Law.
1142
(3) Title insurance reserves are provided for under Section
31A-17-408
.
1143
(4) In determining the financial condition of an insurer, liabilities include:
1144
(a) the estimated amount necessary to pay:
1145
(i) all the insurer's unpaid losses and claims incurred on or before the date of statement,
1146
whether reported or unreported; and
1147
(ii) the expense of adjustment or settlement of a loss or claim described in this
1148
Subsection (4)(a);
1149
(b) for life, accident and health insurance, and annuity contracts:
1150
(i) the reserves on life insurance policies and annuity contracts in force, valued
1151
according to appropriate tables of mortality and the applicable rates of interest;
1152
(ii) the reserves for accident and health benefits, for both active and disabled lives;
1153
(iii) the reserves for accidental death benefits; and
1154
(iv) any additional reserves:
1155
(A) that may be required by the commissioner by rule; or
1156
(B) if no rule is applicable under Subsection (4)(b)(iv)(A), in a manner consistent with
1157
the practice formulated or approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
1158
with respect to those types of insurance;
1159
(c) subject to Subsection (6), for insurance other than life, accident and health, and
1160
title insurance, the amount of reserves equal to the unearned portions of the gross premiums
1161
charged on policies in force, computed:
1162
(i) on a daily or monthly pro rata basis; or
1163
(ii) other basis approved by the commissioner;
1164
(d) for ocean marine and other transportation insurance, reserves:
1165
(i) equal to 50% of the amount of premiums upon risks covering not more than one trip
1166
or passage not terminated; and
1167
(ii) computed:
1168
(A) upon a pro rata basis; or
1169
(B) with the commissioner's consent, in accordance with a method provided under
1170
Subsection (4)(c); and
1171
(e) the insurer's other liabilities due or accrued at the date of statement including:
1172
(i) taxes;
1173
(ii) expenses; and
1174
(iii) other obligations.
1175
(5) (a) Except to the extent provided in Subsection (5)(b), in determining the financial
1176
condition of an insurer of workers' compensation insurance, the insurer's liabilities do not
1177
include any liability based on the liability of the Employer's Reinsurance Fund under Section
1178
34A-2-702
for industrial accidents or occupational diseases occurring on or before June 30,
1179
1994.
1180
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (5)(a), the liability of an insurer of workers'
1181
compensation insurance includes any premium assessment:
1182
(i) imposed under Section
59-9-101
[or
59-9-101.3
]; and
1183
(ii) due at the date of statement.
1184
(6) After adopting a method for computing the reserves described in Subsection (4)(c),
1185
an insurer may not change the method without the commissioner's written consent.
1186
Section 21.
Section
31A-26-210
is amended to read:
1187
31A-26-210. Reports from organizations licensed as adjusters.
1188
(1) Organizations licensed as adjusters under Section
31A-26-203
shall report to the
1189
commissioner, at the times and in the detail and form as prescribed by rule, every change in the
1190
list of natural person adjusters authorized to act in that position for the organization.
1191
(2) Each organization licensed as an adjuster shall, at the time of paying its license
1192
continuation fee under [Subsection] Section
31A-3-103
, report to the commissioner, in the
1193
form established by the commissioner by rule, all natural person adjusters acting in that
1194
position for the organization.
1195
(3) Organizations licensed under this chapter shall designate and report promptly to the
1196
commissioner the name of at least one natural person who has authority to act on behalf of the
1197
organization in all matters pertaining to compliance with this title and orders of the
1198
commissioner.
1199
(4) Where a license is held by an organization, both the organization itself and any
1200
persons named on the license shall, for purposes of this section, be considered to be the holders
1201
of the license. If a person named on the organization license commits any act or fails to
1202
perform any duty which is a ground for suspending, revoking, or limiting the organization
1203
license, the commissioner may suspend, revoke, or limit the license of that person or the
1204
organization, or both.
1205
Section 22.
Section
32A-13-103
is amended to read:
1206
32A-13-103. Searches, seizures, and forfeitures.
1207
(1) The following are subject to forfeiture pursuant to the procedures and substantive
1208
protections established in Title 24, Chapter 1, Utah Uniform Forfeiture Procedures Act:
1209
(a) all alcoholic products possessed, used, offered for sale, sold, given, furnished,
1210
supplied, received, purchased, stored, warehoused, manufactured, adulterated, shipped, carried,
1211
transported, or distributed in violation of this title or commission rules;
1212
(b) all packages or property used or intended for use as a container for an alcoholic
1213
product in violation of this title or commission rules;
1214
(c) all raw materials, products, and equipment used, or intended for use, in
1215
manufacturing, processing, adulterating, delivering, importing, or exporting any alcoholic
1216
product in violation of this title or commission rules;
1217
(d) all implements, furniture, fixtures, or other personal property used or kept for any
1218
violation of this title or commission rules;
1219
(e) all conveyances including aircraft, vehicles, or vessels used or intended for use, to
1220
transport or in any manner facilitate the transportation, sale, receipt, possession, or
1221
concealment of property described in Subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), or (d); and
1222
(f) all books, records, receipts, ledgers, or other documents used or intended for use in
1223
violation of this title or commission rules.
1224
(2) Any of the property subject to forfeiture under this title may be seized by any peace
1225
officer of this state or any other person authorized by law upon process issued by any court
1226
having jurisdiction over the property in accordance with the procedures provided in Title 77,
1227
Chapter 23, Part 2, Search Warrants. However, seizure without process may be made when:
1228
(a) the seizure is incident to an arrest or search under a search warrant or an inspection
1229
under an administrative inspection warrant;
1230
(b) the property subject to seizure has been the subject of a prior judgment in favor of
1231
the state in a criminal injunction or forfeiture proceeding under this title;
1232
(c) the peace officer or other person authorized by law has probable cause to believe
1233
that the property is directly or indirectly dangerous to health or safety; or
1234
(d) the peace officer or other person authorized by law has probable cause to believe
1235
that the property is being or has been used, intended to be used, held, or kept in violation of this
1236
title or commission rules.
1237
(3) If the property is seized pursuant to a search or administrative warrant, the peace
1238
officer or other person authorized by law shall make a proper receipt, return, and inventory and
1239
ensure the safekeeping of the property as required by Sections
77-23-206
through
77-23-208
.
1240
If the magistrate who issued the warrant is a justice court judge, upon the filing of the return
1241
the jurisdiction of the justice court shall cease and the magistrate shall certify the record and all
1242
files without delay to the district court of the county in which the property was located. From
1243
the time of this filing, the district court has jurisdiction of the case.
1244
(4) In the event of seizure of property without process, the peace officer or other person
1245
authorized by law shall make a return of his acts without delay directly to the district court of
1246
the county in which the property was located, and the district court shall have jurisdiction of
1247
the case. The return shall describe all property seized, the place where it was seized, and any
1248
persons in apparent possession of the property. The officer or other person shall also promptly
1249
deliver a written inventory of anything seized to any person in apparent authority at the
1250
premises where the seizure was made, or post it in a conspicuous place at the premises. The
1251
inventory shall state the place where the property is being held.
1252
(5) Property taken or detained under this section is not repleviable but is considered in
1253
custody of the law enforcement agency making the seizure subject only to the orders of the
1254
court or the official having jurisdiction. When property is seized under this title, the
1255
appropriate person or agency may:
1256
(a) place the property under seal;
1257
(b) remove the property to a place designated by it or the warrant under which it was
1258
seized; or
1259
(c) take custody of the property and remove it to an appropriate location for disposition
1260
in accordance with law.
1261
(6) When any property is subject to forfeiture under this section, proceedings shall be
1262
instituted in accordance with the procedures and substantive protections of Title 24, Chapter 1,
1263
Utah Uniform Forfeiture Procedures Act.
1264
(7) When any property is ordered forfeited under Title 24, Chapter 1, Utah Uniform
1265
Forfeiture Procedures Act, by a finding of the court that no person is entitled to recover the
1266
property, the property, if an alcoholic product or a package used as a container for an alcoholic
1267
product, shall be disposed of as follows:
1268
(a) If the alcoholic product is unadulterated, pure, and free from crude, unrectified, or
1269
impure form of ethylic alcohol, or any other deleterious substance or liquid, and is otherwise in
1270
saleable condition, sold in accordance with Section [
24-1-16
]
24-1-17
.
1271
(b) If the alcoholic product is impure, adulterated, or otherwise unfit for sale, it and its
1272
package or container shall be destroyed by the department under competent supervision.
1273
Section 23.
Section
34-19-5
is amended to read:
1274
34-19-5. Injunctive relief -- When available -- Necessary findings -- Procedure.
1275
(1) No court, nor any judge or judges of [it] a court, shall have jurisdiction to issue a
1276
temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, as
1277
[herein] defined in Section
34-19-11
, except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open
1278
court, [(]with opportunity for cross-examination[)], in support of the allegations of a complaint
1279
made under oath and testimony in opposition to it, if offered, and except after findings of all of
1280
the [following] facts described in Subsection (2) by the court, or a judge or judges [of it:].
1281
(2) The findings required by Subsection (1) are all of the following:
1282
[(1)] (a) that unlawful acts have been threatened or committed and will be executed or
1283
continued unless restrained;
1284
[(2)] (b) that substantial and irreparable injury to property or property rights of the
1285
complainant will follow unless the relief requested is granted;
1286
[(3)] (c) that as to each item of relief granted greater injury will be inflicted upon
1287
complainant by the denial of it than will be inflicted upon defendants by the granting of it;
1288
[(4)] (d) that no item of relief granted is relief that a court or judge of it has no
1289
jurisdiction to restrain or enjoin under Section
34-19-2
;
1290
[(5)] (e) that the complainant has no adequate remedy at law; and
1291
[(6)] (f) that the public officers charged with the duty to protect complainant's property
1292
have failed or are unable to furnish adequate protection.
1293
[Such] (3) Subject to Subsection (4), the hearing required by Subsection (1) shall be
1294
held after due and personal notice of it has been given, in such manner as the court shall direct,
1295
to all known persons against whom relief is sought, and also to those public officers charged
1296
with the duty to protect complainant's property[; provided, however, that if].
1297
(4) (a) If a complainant shall also allege that unless a temporary restraining order shall
1298
be issued before [such] a hearing may be had, a substantial and irreparable injury to
1299
complainant's property will be unavoidable, [such] a temporary restraining order may be
1300
granted upon the expiration of such reasonable notice of application [therefor] for the
1301
restraining order as the court may direct by order to show cause, but in no less than 48 hours.
1302
This order to show cause shall be served upon such party or parties as are sought to be
1303
restrained and as shall be specified in the order, and the restraining order shall issue only upon
1304
testimony, or in the discretion of the court, upon affidavits, sufficient, if sustained to justify the
1305
court in issuing a temporary injunction upon a hearing as [herein] provided for in this section.
1306
(b) Such a temporary restraining order shall be effective for no longer than five days,
1307
and at the expiration of said five days shall become void and not subject to renewal or
1308
extension[; but], except that if the hearing for a temporary injunction shall have been begun
1309
before the expiration of the [said] five days, the restraining order may in the court's discretion
1310
be continued until a decision is reached upon the issuance of the temporary injunction.
1311
(5) No temporary restraining order or temporary injunction shall be issued except on
1312
condition that complainant shall first file an undertaking with adequate security sufficient to
1313
recompense those enjoined for any loss, expense, or damage caused by the improvident or
1314
erroneous issuance of such order or injunction, including all reasonable costs, [(]together with
1315
[a] reasonable [attorney's fee)] attorney fees, and expense against the order or against the
1316
granting of any injunctive relief sought in the same proceeding and subsequently denied by the
1317
court. This undertaking shall be understood to signify an agreement entered into by the
1318
complainant and the surety upon which a decree may be rendered in the same suit or
1319
proceeding against such complainant and surety, the complainant and the surety submitting
1320
themselves to the jurisdiction of the court for that purpose[; but nothing herein contained],
1321
except that nothing in this Subsection (5) shall deprive any party having a claim or cause of
1322
action under or upon such undertaking from electing to pursue [his] the party's ordinary remedy
1323
by suit at law or in equity.
1324
Section 24.
Section
35A-3-313
is amended to read:
1325
35A-3-313. Performance goals.
1326
(1) As used in this section:
1327
(a) "Performance goals" means a target level of performance or an expected level of
1328
performance against which actual performance is compared.
1329
(b) "Performance indicators" means actual performance information regarding a
1330
program or activity.
1331
(c) "Performance monitoring system" means a process to regularly collect and analyze
1332
performance information including performance indicators and performance goals.
1333
(2) (a) The department shall establish a performance monitoring system for cash
1334
assistance provided under this part.
1335
(b) The department shall establish the performance indicators and performance goals
1336
that will be used in the performance monitoring system for cash assistance under this part.
1337
(c) (i) On or before December 31 of each year, the department shall submit to the
1338
legislative fiscal analyst and the director of the Office of Legislative Research and General
1339
Counsel, a written report describing the difference between actual performance and
1340
performance goals for the second, third, and fourth quarters of the prior fiscal year and the first
1341
quarter of the current fiscal year.
1342
(ii) (A) The legislative fiscal analyst or the analyst's designee shall convey the
1343
information contained in the report to the appropriation subcommittee that has oversight
1344
responsibilities for the Department of Workforce Services during the General Session that
1345
follows the submission of the report.
1346
(B) The subcommittee may consider the information in its deliberations regarding the
1347
budget for services and supports under this chapter.
1348
(iii) The director of the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel or the
1349
director's designee shall convey the information in the report to[: (A)] the legislative interim
1350
committee that has oversight responsibilities for the Department of Workforce Services[; and].
1351
[(B) the Utah Tomorrow Strategic Planning Committee.]
1352
Section 25.
Section
36-26-102
is amended to read:
1353
36-26-102. Utah International Trade Commission -- Creation -- Membership --
1354
Chairs -- Per diem and expenses.
1355
(1) There is created the Utah International Trade Commission.
1356
(2) The commission membership consists of 11 members [of which]:
1357
(a) eight members to be appointed as follows:
1358
(i) five members from the House of Representatives, appointed by the speaker of the
1359
House of Representatives, no more than three from the same political party; and
1360
(ii) three members from the Senate, appointed by the president of the Senate, no more
1361
than two members from the same political party;
1362
(b) two nonvoting members to be appointed by the governor; and
1363
(c) the Utah Attorney General or designee, who is a nonvoting member.
1364
(3) (a) The members appointed or reappointed by the governor shall serve two-year
1365
terms.
1366
(b) Notwithstanding the requirement of Subsection (3)(a), the governor shall, at the
1367
time of appointment or reappointment, adjust the length of terms to ensure that the terms of
1368
these members are staggered so that approximately half of the members are appointed or
1369
reappointed under Subsection (3)(c) every two years.
1370
(c) When a vacancy occurs among members appointed by the governor, the
1371
replacement shall be appointed for the unexpired term.
1372
(d) One of the two members appointed by the governor shall be from a Utah industry
1373
involved in international trade.
1374
(4) Four members of the commission constitute a quorum.
1375
(5) (a) The speaker of the House of Representatives shall designate a member of the
1376
House of Representatives appointed under Subsection (2)(a) as a cochair of the commission.
1377
(b) The president of the Senate shall designate a member of the Senate appointed under
1378
Subsection (2)(a) as a cochair of the commission.
1379
(6) (a) State government officer and employee members who do not receive salary, per
1380
diem, or expenses from their agency for their commission service may receive per diem and
1381
expenses at the rates incurred in the performance of their official commission duties at the rates
1382
established by the Division of Finance under Sections
63A-3-106
and
63A-3-107
.
1383
(b) Legislators on the commission receive compensation and expenses as provided by
1384
law and legislative rule.
1385
Section 26.
Section
38-1-27
is amended to read:
1386
38-1-27. State Construction Registry -- Form and contents of notice of
1387
commencement, preliminary notice, and notice of completion.
1388
(1) As used in this section and Sections
38-1-30
through
38-1-37
:
1389
(a) "Alternate filing" means a legible and complete filing made in a manner established
1390
by the division under Subsection (2)(e) other than an electronic filing.
1391
(b) "Cancel" means to indicate that a filing is no longer given effect.
1392
(c) "Construction project," "project," or "improvement" means all labor, equipment,
1393
and materials provided:
1394
(i) under an original contract; or
1395
(ii) by, or under contracts with, an owner-builder.
1396
(d) "Database" means the State Construction Registry created in this section.
1397
(e) (i) "Designated agent" means the third party the Division of Occupational and
1398
Professional Licensing contracts with to create and maintain the State Construction Registry.
1399
(ii) The designated agent is not an agency, instrumentality, or a political subdivision of
1400
the state.
1401
(f) "Division" means the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing.
1402
(g) "Interested person" means a person who may be affected by a construction project.
1403
(h) "Program" means the State Construction Registry Program created in this section.
1404
(2) Subject to receiving adequate funding through a legislative appropriation and
1405
contracting with an approved third party vendor who meets the requirements of Sections
1406
38-1-30
through
38-1-37
, there is created the State Construction Registry Program that shall:
1407
(a) (i) assist in protecting public health, safety, and welfare; and
1408
(ii) promote a fair working environment;
1409
(b) be overseen by the division with the assistance of the designated agent;
1410
(c) provide a central repository for notices of commencement, preliminary notices, and
1411
notices of completion filed in connection with all privately owned construction projects as well
1412
as all state and local government owned construction projects throughout Utah;
1413
(d) be accessible for filing and review by way of the program Internet website of:
1414
(i) notices of commencement;
1415
(ii) preliminary notices; and
1416
(iii) notices of completion;
1417
(e) accommodate:
1418
(i) electronic filing of the notices described in Subsection (2)(d); and
1419
(ii) alternate filing of the notices described in Subsection (2)(d) by U.S. mail, telefax,
1420
or any other alternate method as provided by rule made by the division in accordance with Title
1421
63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act;
1422
(f) (i) provide electronic notification for up to three e-mail addresses for each interested
1423
person or company who requests notice from the construction notice registry; and
1424
(ii) provide alternate means of notification for a person who makes an alternate filing,
1425
including U.S. mail, telefax, or any other method as prescribed by rule made by the division in
1426
accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act; and
1427
(g) provide hard-copy printing of electronic receipts for an individual filing evidencing
1428
the date and time of the individual filing and the content of the individual filing.
1429
(3) (a) The designated agent shall provide notice of all other filings for a project to any
1430
person who files a notice of commencement, preliminary notice, or notice of completion for
1431
that project, unless the person:
1432
(i) requests that the person not receive notice of other filings; or
1433
(ii) does not provide the designated agent with the person's contact information in a
1434
manner that adequately informs the designated agent.
1435
(b) An interested person may request notice of filings related to a project.
1436
(c) The database shall be indexed by:
1437
(i) owner name;
1438
(ii) original contractor name;
1439
(iii) subdivision, development, or other project name, if any;
1440
(iv) project address;
1441
(v) lot or parcel number;
1442
(vi) unique project number assigned by the designated agent; and
1443
(vii) any other identifier that the division considers reasonably appropriate in
1444
collaboration with the designated agent.
1445
(4) (a) In accordance with the process required by Section
63-38-3.2
, the division shall
1446
establish the fees for:
1447
(i) a notice of commencement;
1448
(ii) a preliminary notice;
1449
(iii) a notice of completion;
1450
(iv) a request for notice;
1451
(v) providing a required notice by an alternate method of delivery;
1452
(vi) a duplicate receipt of a filing; and
1453
(vii) account setup for a person who wishes to be billed periodically for filings with the
1454
database.
1455
(b) The fees allowed under Subsection (4)(a) may not exceed the amount reasonably
1456
necessary to create and maintain the database.
1457
(c) The fees established by the division may vary by method of filing if one form of
1458
filing is more costly to process than another form of filing.
1459
[(d) Notwithstanding Subsection
63-38-3.2
(2)(c), the division need not submit the fee
1460
schedule for fees allowed by Subsections (4)(a)(i) through (vii) to the Legislature until the 2006
1461
General Session.]
1462
[(e)] (d) The division may provide by contract that the designated agent may retain all
1463
fees collected by the designated agent except that the designated agent shall remit to the
1464
division the cost of the division's oversight under Subsection (2)(b).
1465
(5) (a) The database is classified as a public record under Title 63, Chapter 2,
1466
Government Records Access and Management Act, unless otherwise classified by the division.
1467
(b) A request for information submitted to the designated agent is not subject to Title
1468
63, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act.
1469
(c) Information contained in a public record contained in the database shall be
1470
requested from the designated agent.
1471
(d) The designated agent may charge a commercially reasonable fee allowed by the
1472
designated agent's contract with the division for providing information under Subsection (5)(c).
1473
(e) Notwithstanding Title 63, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and
1474
Management Act, if information is available in a public record contained in the database, a
1475
person may not request the information from the division.
1476
(f) (i) A person may request information that is not a public record contained in the
1477
database from the division in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 2, Government Records
1478
Access and Management Act.
1479
(ii) The division shall inform the designated agent of how to direct inquiries made to
1480
the designated agent for information that is not a public record contained in the database.
1481
(6) The following are not an adjudicative proceeding under Title 63, Chapter 46b,
1482
Administrative Procedures Act:
1483
(a) the filing of a notice permitted by this chapter;
1484
(b) the rejection of a filing permitted by this chapter; or
1485
(c) other action by the designated agent in connection with a filing of any notice
1486
permitted by this chapter.
1487
(7) The division and the designated agent need not determine the timeliness of any
1488
notice before filing the notice in the database.
1489
(8) (a) A person who is delinquent on the payment of a fee established under
1490
Subsection (4) may not file a notice with the database.
1491
(b) A determination that a person is delinquent on the payment of a fee for filing
1492
established under Subsection (4) shall be made in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46b,
1493
Administrative Procedures Act.
1494
(c) Any order issued in a proceeding described in Subsection (8)(b) may prescribe the
1495
method of that person's payment of fees for filing notices with the database after issuance of the
1496
order.
1497
(9) If a notice is filed by a third party on behalf of another, the notice is considered to
1498
be filed by the person on whose behalf the notice is filed.
1499
(10) A person filing a notice of commencement, preliminary notice, or notice of
1500
completion is responsible for verifying the accuracy of information entered into the database,
1501
whether the person files electronically or by alternate or third party filing.
1502
Section 27.
Section
38-2-3.2
is amended to read:
1503
38-2-3.2. Sale of unclaimed personal property.
1504
[(A)] (1) Any garments, clothing, shoes, wearing apparel or household goods,
1505
remaining in the possession of a person, on which cleaning, pressing, glazing, laundry or
1506
washing or repair work has been done or upon which alterations or repairs have been made or
1507
on which materials or supplies have been used or furnished by said person holding possession
1508
thereof, for a period of 90 days or more after the completion of such services or labors, may be
1509
sold by said person holding possession, to pay the unpaid reasonable or agreed charges therefor
1510
and the costs of notifying the owner or owners as hereinafter provided[; provided, however,
1511
that]. However, the person to whom such charges are payable and owing shall first notify the
1512
owner or owners of such property of the time and place of such sale; and provided further, that
1513
property that is to be placed in storage after any of the services or labors mentioned herein shall
1514
not be affected by the provisions of this Subsection (1).
1515
[(B)] (2) All garments, clothing, shoes, wearing apparel on which any of these services
1516
or labors mentioned in [the preceding] Subsection (1) have been performed and then placed in
1517
storage by agreement, and remaining in the possession of a person without the reasonable or
1518
agreed charges having been paid for a period of 12 months may be sold to pay such charges and
1519
costs of notifying the owner or owners as hereinafter provided[, provided, however, that].
1520
However, the person to whom the charges are payable and owing shall first notify the owner or
1521
owners of such property of the time and the place of sale, and provided, further, that persons
1522
operating as warehouses or warehousemen shall not be affected by this Subsection (2).
1523
[(C) 1.] (3) (a) (i) The mailing of a properly stamped and registered letter, with a return
1524
address marked thereon, addressed to the owner or owners of the property[ as aforesaid], at
1525
their address given at the time of delivery of the property to such person to render any of the
1526
services or labors set out in this article, or if no address was so given, at their address if
1527
otherwise known, stating the time and place of sale, shall constitute notice as required in this
1528
[article. Said] section.
1529
(ii) The notice required in Subsection (3)(a)(i) shall be mailed at least 20 days before
1530
the date of sale.
1531
(iii) The cost of mailing [said] the letter required under Subsection (3)(a)(i) shall be
1532
added to the charges.
1533
[2.] (b) (i) If no address was given at the time of delivery of the property [as aforesaid],
1534
or if the address of the owner or owners is not otherwise known, such person who has
1535
performed the services or labors as aforesaid shall cause to be published at least once in a daily
1536
or weekly newspaper in the city, town, city and county, wherein such property was delivered to
1537
such person, a notice of the time and place of sale and such notice shall be published at least
1538
[twenty] 20 days before the date of sale.
1539
(ii) Such notice constitutes notice as required in this [article] section if notice cannot be
1540
mailed as [aforesaid] provided in Subsection (3)(b)(i).
1541
(iii) The costs of one such p