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S.B. 241

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SPECIAL DISTRICT AMENDMENTS

             2     
2001 GENERAL SESSION

             3     
STATE OF UTAH

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Sponsor: Gene Davis

             5      This act modifies provisions relating to Special Districts to include jails among the services
             6      that special service districts are authorized to provide. This act also makes technical
             7      changes.
             8      This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
             9      AMENDS:
             10          17A-2-1304, as last amended by Chapter 46, Laws of Utah 2000
             11      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             12          Section 1. Section 17A-2-1304 is amended to read:
             13           17A-2-1304. Establishing special service districts -- Improvement districts within
             14      special service districts.
             15          (1) (a) A county or a municipality may establish a special service district for the purpose
             16      of providing within the area of the special service district any of the following services or any
             17      combination of them:
             18          (i) water;
             19          (ii) sewerage;
             20          (iii) drainage;
             21          (iv) flood control;
             22          (v) garbage;
             23          (vi) health care;
             24          (vii) transportation;
             25          (viii) recreation;
             26          (ix) fire protection;
             27          (x) jails;


             28          [(x)] (xi) street lighting; and
             29          [(xi)] (xii) consolidated 911 and emergency dispatch.
             30          (b) Snow removal services may be provided in special service districts established under
             31      this section to more effectively carry out the purposes of those special service districts.
             32          (c) These services may be provided through facilities or systems acquired or constructed
             33      for that purpose through construction, purchase, lease, contract, gift, or condemnation or any
             34      combination of the above.
             35          (d) [Service] Special service districts may contract with a franchised, certificated public
             36      utility for the construction and operation of an electrical service distribution system within the
             37      special service district.
             38          (2) (a) The area within any special service district may include all or any part of the county
             39      or municipality that established it except that:
             40          (i) a special service district may not include the area of any other special service district
             41      established by the same county or municipality that is now providing the same service proposed
             42      to be supplied by the new special service district;
             43          (ii) a special service district established by a county may contain all or a part of any
             44      municipality or of an existing improvement district that provides the same service proposed to be
             45      provided by the special service district, but only with the consent of the governing authority as
             46      provided in a resolution or ordinance adopted by the governing authority; and
             47          (iii) a special service district may not include any area not directly benefited by the services
             48      provided under this section without the consent of the nonbenefited landowner.
             49          (b) All parts of a special service district need not be contiguous.
             50          (3) (a) As provided in Section 17A-2-1315 , the governing authority of any special service
             51      district created under this part may create one or more improvement districts within the boundaries
             52      of the special service district by following the procedures in, and meeting the requirements of,
             53      Chapter 3, Part 2 or 3.
             54          (b) The intent to create an improvement district need not be present at the time a special
             55      service district is organized.
             56          (c) Any improvement district created within the boundaries of a special service district
             57      may only be organized to undertake projects or improvements for which the special service district
             58      creating that improvement district was organized.


             59          (d) The special service district shall meet all procedural requirements for creating an
             60      improvement district at the time the improvement district is created, as provided in Section
             61      17A-2-1315 and in Chapter 3, Part 2 or 3.
             62          (e) In determining whether or not a project or improvement undertaken by an improvement
             63      district is within the scope of the purposes for which the special service district creating that
             64      improvement district was organized, any project or improvement reasonably related to the
             65      purposes for which the special service district creating that improvement district was organized
             66      is considered to be within the scope of those purposes.




Legislative Review Note
    as of 2-13-01 9:19 AM


A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel


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