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H.B. 58 Enrolled

                 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMENDMENTS

                 
2000 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Joseph G. Murray

                  AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL DISTRICTS; ADDING TO THE LIST OF SERVICES
                  THAT A SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT IS AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE; AND PROVIDING
                  AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      17A-2-1304, as last amended by Chapter 275, Laws of Utah 1993
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 17A-2-1304 is amended to read:
                       17A-2-1304. Establishing service districts -- Improvement districts within service
                  districts.
                      (1) (a) A county or a municipality may establish a service district for the purpose of
                  providing within the area of the service district any of the following services or any combination
                  of them:
                      (i) water;
                      (ii) sewerage;
                      (iii) drainage;
                      (iv) flood control;
                      (v) garbage;
                      (vi) health care;
                      (vii) transportation;
                      (viii) recreation;
                      (ix) fire protection; [and]
                      (x) street lighting; and
                      (xi) consolidated 911 and emergency dispatch.
                      (b) Snow removal services may be provided in service districts established under this


                  section to more effectively carry out the purposes of those service districts.
                      (c) These services may be provided through facilities or systems acquired or constructed for
                  that purpose through construction, purchase, lease, contract, gift, or condemnation or any
                  combination of the above.
                      (d) Service districts may contract with a franchised, certificated public utility for the
                  construction and operation of an electrical service distribution system within the service district.
                      (2) (a) The area within any service district may include all or any part of the county or
                  municipality that established it except that:
                      (i) a service district may not include the area of any other service district established by the
                  same county or municipality that is now providing the same service proposed to be supplied by the
                  new service district;
                      (ii) a service district established by a county may contain all or a part of any municipality or
                  of an existing improvement district that provides the same service proposed to be provided by the
                  service district, but only with the consent of the governing authority as provided in a resolution or
                  ordinance adopted by the governing authority; and
                      (iii) a service district may not include any area not directly benefited by the services provided
                  under this section without the consent of the nonbenefited landowner.
                      (b) All parts of a service district need not be contiguous.
                      (3) (a) As provided in Section 17A-2-1315 , the governing authority of any service district
                  created under this part may create one or more improvement districts within the boundaries of the
                  special service district by following the procedures in, and meeting the requirements of, Chapter 3,
                  Part 2 or 3.
                      (b) The intent to create an improvement district need not be present at the time a service
                  district is organized.
                      (c) Any improvement district created within the boundaries of a service district may only be
                  organized to undertake projects or improvements for which the service district creating that
                  improvement district was organized.
                      (d) The service district shall meet all procedural requirements for creating an improvement

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                  district at the time the improvement district is created, as provided in Section 17A-2-1315 and in
                  Chapter 3, Part 2 or 3.
                      (e) In determining whether or not a project or improvement undertaken by an improvement
                  district is within the scope of the purposes for which the service district creating that improvement
                  district was organized, any project or improvement reasonably related to the purposes for which the
                  service district creating that improvement district was organized is considered to be within the scope
                  of those purposes.
                      Section 2. Effective date.
                      This act takes effect January 1, 2001, only if S.J.R. 5, Resolution Amending State and Local
                  Government Provisions, passed by the Legislature during the 1999 General Session, is approved by
                  voters at the 2000 regular general election.

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