Title 54 Public Utilities
Chapter 3 Duties of Public Utilities
Section 28 Notice required of certain public utilities before preparing or amending a long-range plan or acquiring certain property.
54-3-28. Notice required of certain public utilities before preparing or amending a
long-range plan or acquiring certain property.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) (i) "Affected entity" means each county, municipality, local district under Title 17B,
Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, special service district, school
district, interlocal cooperation entity established under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal
Cooperation Act, and specified public utility:
(A) whose services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant modification
because of expected uses of land under a proposed long-range plan or under proposed
amendments to a long-range plan; or
(B) that has filed with the specified public utility a copy of the general or long-range plan
of the county, municipality, local district, special service district, school district, interlocal
cooperation entity, or specified public utility.
(ii) "Affected entity" does not include the specified public utility that is required under
Subsection (2) to provide notice.
(b) "Specified public utility" means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or
telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1.
(2) (a) If a specified public utility prepares a long-range plan regarding its facilities
proposed for the future in a county of the first or second class or amends an already existing
long-range plan, the specified public utility shall, before preparing a long-range plan or
amendments to an existing long-range plan, provide written notice, as provided in this section, of
its intent to prepare a long-range plan or to amend an existing long-range plan.
(b) Each notice under Subsection (2) shall:
(i) indicate that the specified public utility intends to prepare a long-range plan or to
amend a long-range plan, as the case may be;
(ii) describe or provide a map of the geographic area that will be affected by the
long-range plan or amendments to a long-range plan;
(iii) be sent to:
(A) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
boundaries is located the land on which the proposed long-range plan or amendments to a
long-range plan are expected to indicate that the proposed facilities will be located;
(B) each affected entity;
(C) the Automated Geographic Reference Center created in Section 63F-1-506;
(D) each association of governments, established pursuant to an interlocal agreement
under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, of which a county or municipality
described in Subsection (2)(b)(iii)(A) is a member; and
(E) the state planning coordinator appointed under Section 63J-4-202;
(iv) with respect to the notice to counties and municipalities described in Subsection
(2)(b)(iii)(A) and affected entities, invite them to provide information for the specified public
utility to consider in the process of preparing, adopting, and implementing the long-range plan or
amendments to a long-range plan concerning:
(A) impacts that the use of land proposed in the proposed long-range plan or
amendments to a long-range plan may have on the county, municipality, or affected entity; and
(B) uses of land that the county, municipality, or affected entity is planning or
considering that may conflict with the proposed long-range plan or amendments to a long-range
plan; and
(v) include the address of an Internet website, if the specified public utility has one, and
the name and telephone number of a person where more information can be obtained concerning
the specified public utility's proposed long-range plan or amendments to a long-range plan.
(3) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(d), each specified public utility intending to
acquire real property in a county of the first or second class for the purpose of expanding its
infrastructure or other facilities used for providing the services that the specified public utility is
authorized to provide shall provide written notice, as provided in this Subsection (3), of its intent
to acquire the property if the intended use of the property is contrary to:
(i) the anticipated use of the property under the county or municipality's general plan; or
(ii) the property's current zoning designation.
(b) Each notice under Subsection (3)(a) shall:
(i) indicate that the specified public utility intends to acquire real property;
(ii) identify the real property; and
(iii) be sent to:
(A) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
boundaries the property is located; and
(B) each affected entity.
(c) A notice under this Subsection (3) is a protected record as provided in Subsection
63G-2-305(7).
(d) (i) The notice requirement of Subsection (3)(a) does not apply if the specified public
utility previously provided notice under Subsection (2) identifying the general location within the
municipality or unincorporated part of the county where the property to be acquired is located.
(ii) If a specified public utility is not required to comply with the notice requirement of
Subsection (3)(a) because of application of Subsection (3)(d)(i), the specified public utility shall
provide the notice specified in Subsection (3)(a) as soon as practicable after its acquisition of the
real property.
Amended by Chapter 382, 2008 General Session
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